Well, December has been a month of Tech Support. This past month (more or less), I have done the following tech stuff:

• A clean format-and-reinstall of Vista Business on my Fujitsu Tablet. Goodbye, pre-installed OEM Crap and program/driver conflicts, hello fast-and-sleek computer. In my spare time these last few months, I've been working on my review for said tablet, and once it's all finished, I'll post it.
• A clean Install of Vista Ultimate on my Desktop. ♥ It runs so beautifully now, and everything is arranged just the way I like it.
  
• Added another GB of RAM to my Desktop, for a total of 4GB.
• Re-purposed an old laptop with a broken screen to serve as a internet workstation for the Kitchen. With an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and with Windows XP and Google Chrome installed, it works great.
• Installed Vista Business on my brother's computer, and spent about 3 days helping him set it up exactly the way he likes it. Now that he's been using it for a couple of weeks, he loves it and says it's much easier for him to use than XP. 
• Finally broke down and bought (I know, I PAID for software, heresy!) a copy of Natural Reader Personal Edition for brother. He had been using the free version, but it uses the built in Microsoft voice, which is female (and very poor quality), not male, on Vista. He hates the female voice, and I don't blame him. The male voice that comes with the Paid Natural Reader is wonderful: so smooth and easy to listen to. With Vista's very nice built-in speech-to-text engine and Natural Reader Personal edition, he can be truly independent now.
  
• Added more RAM to my brother's computer, for a total of 4GB.
  
• Added more RAM to my mom's computer, for a total of 4GB (seeing a pattern here?).
• Updated all the programs on Mom's computer to the latest versions. (Secunia PSI made this really easy to do.)
  
• Set up a new Netbook for my younger sister, who is starting college in a few days. Of all the members of my family, she's probably the least experienced when it comes to computers, so setting things up so they would be easy and intuitive, and writing step-by-step directions for how to do things was time-consuming. Luckily, my experience with setting up a computer for my mother stood me in good stead, soI was able to guess most of the things she would need instructions for. 
• When I dropped off the Netbook, she asked me to look at her Desktop, which was terribly slow and wouldn't do the things she wanted it to do. So I brought it home, installed Vista Home Premium, and set up multiple user accounts and all the programs and instructions she will need to do the stuff she wants. I'm actually still in the process of doing this, actually. I'll be using Vista's multi-user features for the first time, and hopefully with Vista's User Account Control features, I'll be able to keep her kids from installing crap and messing with things they shouldn't.
  
• Added 512MB of RAM to sister's Desktop, for a total of 1 GB. This is the lowest spec'd computer I've installed Vista on, and it actually runs quite well, faster than XP was  (in all fairness, I didn't try to troubleshoot the XP speed problem so the comparison isn't scientifically rigorous), although not as lightening-fast as my own computers do. I would give her more RAM, except that I'd have to buy it, because I don't have any 1GB chips laying around, and she only has two slots. So 1 GB it is.

As you can see, I've been very busy this winter break, doing lots of fun, and sometimes tedious, stuff. I've set up so many systems that I've actually got a little USB drive full of all the programs I need to install.
But there are a few things that I had planned to do that I DIDN'T get done:

• Finish my Dress and start a second one.
• Finish scanning recipes. And converting them to text. And adding them to the online database.
• Clean my Room (Was this ever going to happen, anyway?).
• Make another batch of Biscuit Mix.

Oh well. I got a lot done anyway, and I'll just have to get the rest done in the first few weeks of Winter Quarter, before the classes get difficult.