The former has certainly weighed more heavily on my productivity, but the latter contributed little, as well. The truth is that I have been out of town with another fantastic girlfriend, and my attention has been divided badly between being with her and doing fun things and being in one of the United States’ republics with a reputation for being rather hostile towards no fewer than three of the minorities to which I belong. A nuisance, but at least this one was understandable. I had noticed the problem long ago but did not know what the source of the problem was exactly. Additionally, I discovered that it was scaling everything on my screen up to 125%, which is great for looking at whatever, but it had been making a huge mess of my art at 1xzoom. But Windows 7 never gave me this kind of obscene trouble. Again, one of my brilliant girlfriends helped bail me out, and now things are more or less back on the rails. Another surprise update had incapacitated my other laptop at the time, as well.
Windows 10, though it has been civil so far, has taking a change of attitude from "Unremarkable but cooperative" to "You are not my father and I will install whatever broken updates I want, and start waking up from hibernation while you are carrying me in your bag." The garbage update was especially jarring because my computer was stuck in a weird deadlock state where it could not boot up. I have been working on my main project as well these past couple of weeks (sorry I missed last week's post, by the way), but I have also found myself sidetracked somewhat.