Back in Portland

So I'm supposed to be working today, but my Vista machine is not happy... not at all. Not really sure what is going on here, but it updated sometime when I was in KC and never really came back. I was able to work yesterday, but then it updated itself again last night, and never finished "Shutting down..." When I bounced it this morning it took about an hour to "Configuring updates..." when I finally logged in the whole machine ran like hammered shit. So I restarted, and now, once again, "Shutting down..." for like 2 hours. I keep reading that I should let it do what it needs to do, but WTF? If that little swirling circle stops moving before it restarts, I'm going to reinstall the OS and hope for the best.



Here is me anxiously waiting. Thank god I have the "flaptop".