…the weather report says 2-3 inches possible.
It’s 5 inches deep out there and still coming down. We are due to get another 2-3 inches tonight, which, by the way it is coming down, may be another five inches.
Then it will ‘precipitate’ in the morning and ‘rain’ tomorrow.
Welcome to Spokane!
Tomorrow I’m supposed to get the repairman from Dell to install new guts in my laptop…I’m backing up, yes I am.
I occasionally use the USB headset. I also got a little SanDisk 16 gig backup from Jane for Christmas—don’t inhale sharply or you could ingest it…tiny thing. 16 gig. Size of your thumbnail. But the headset won’t work if the USB drive is in.
I contacted Dell with this fact: I’d run the diagnostics, and the tech and I started in flashing the bios and then updating drivers. No joy. Whereupon the tech declared she was replacing the mobo, the I/0 thingie, and something else, I think the HDD controller—and exchanging the mistaken keyboard AND the now-worn palmrest they put in last time so I get my lighted keyboard back. Huzzah. This pretty well guts the machine and re-does everything but the screen. Dell’s been good to this user. I always get the top end service policy, and this will be the second machine I’ve had that they’ve done a total rebuild on…not to mention just about annual replacement of keyboards.
The local repair guy is an odd duck, but he does know where the screws go and how many he has, so I have no problem. He goes away and I have a ‘new’ laptop.
The weather may be a glitch in this plan, but it will clear. And I don’t know why the fix is so extreme over so tiny a glitch, but hey, they want to take back the guts and probably refurb them, and I get somebody else’s, refurbed, but tested, and it all continues to operate.
I’ll keep you posted.
That sounds fantastic! Nouveau laptop, most wonderful. Though balancing it on one’s head as Ed in Cowboy Bebop does is not recommended…. However, Ed is a special case, by definition.
Though I like the “pack of gum” style drives, precisely because of that “so tiny you could ingest/inhale it” thing. And the 16 gigs are quite, quite handy. (Though I may be tempted to dab a spot of paint or tie a colored string around one as an ad hoc label. Why they can’t offer plastic covers or some ID’ing system, dots, what have you, I don’t know.`
Precipitate. We won’t get snow, but we’re due for more rain and almost-freezing cold during the week. It was sunny and warmer today, however.
…Kitteh, it is difficult to type when you’re attempting to lay your head down on my hand, and thus the keyboard. Silly feline. Na Khym and Na Hallan would surely laugh at your little antics, you flirtacious lad.
If it has a hole for a tether, ribbon or yarn or craft thread/pearl cotton will do.
I have some 8GB drives that have slots for labels – and came with labels and a marker. (At least one brand used to have labels on all theirs.) A Sharpie will work on the plastic parts.
I have friends who had a problem, called Dell, tried a few things. Then the support person advised them to buy the support package for $80 and that would allow a support guy to come out and replace motherboard, graphics card and something else.
Best $80 they ever spent, they reckon. 🙂
With luck, despite the snow—we get the repair today. At least we’ll schedule it.
they’re predicting anywhere between 4 and 6 inches of snow for my area tonight. Plus, it’s cold. It was 7 degrees at 10:00AM today, wind chill was at -6, and it’s going to get colder later in the week.
I’m glad I dug the snow blower out of the back of the garage and staged it near the overhead door.
The repair guy called, has the parts, and he is coming. This seems to be a younger fellow than the other, who was not totally pleasant to deal with: the day is, despite over 5″ of snow rapidly trying to melt in near 40 degree temperatures, and the fact I’m out of salad fixings while we’re on a salad diet, —shaping up to be good.
Weather will be several days of rain followed by more snow, then more rain.
BlueCatShip, I tried with my tablet and was able to balance that on my head and move a bit. It goes forward on your head. Don’t have a laptop handy to try that. when dancers balance swords it is over their ears. It is just a trick. You learn to keep your head still and it sort of floats while the rest of the boy moves.
The white stuff that’s hitting Joe will stay far enough north to miss us. Although, we will have extreme cold. Four days of bitter cold nights.
[quote]You learn to keep your head still and it sort of floats while the rest of the boy moves.[/quote]
Hey, if you can balance a boy on your head, that IS a near trick.
Especially if he’s a very nice boy…. LOL!
(OK, yes, I know it was only a typo, but it was too funny to pass up!)
One apologizes to all and sundry if the humor does not quite strike them the same way.
One thinks this is more evidence one needs a date. With a nice boy. Uh….
(Actually, I am not nearly so forward, which might be part of the problem, one guesses.)
Er, at any rate, good luck with balancing that nice boy on your head. ::guffaw::
Neat trick. Not a near trick. A neat trick. Drat those typo gremlins.
OK, I suppose one would have to be near, to pull off such a neat trick. Still….
Hmm, nope, still doesn’t account for the typo. Oh well, maybe I can appease the typo gremlins with…what? Liquid paper? Hmm, no, probably not that.
Ah, well….
Couple of news releaes you may find interesting when the computer’s running again. New hi-def photos of M16’s “Pillars of Creation”, and Andromeda Galaxy.
it’s 11:42PM EST, snow is falling and beginning to accumulate on the streets and sidewalks. I’ve been in for the night since around 5:30PM, mostly playing with the D-STAR system on amateur radio. (Fascinating system, VoIP for amateur radio. I can talk on a 5 watt UHF digital transceiver to a repeater about 1/2 mile from my house. That repeater is connected to a computer running a variation of Linux, and is connected to the internet. My transceiver memories are programmed for particular functions, so that if I want to connect to the D-STAR repeater in Spokane, all I have to do is switch to that memory channel, press the push-to-talk switch, and in 5 seconds or so, I’m able to talk to amateur radio operators in Spokane on their UHF repeater. There much, much more to it than that, but our system just got upgraded last Tuesday, so being as I live the closest to the repeater’s current location, I can experiment a little bit more than the others in our group. Once we put the repeater in its permanent location, its antenna will be about 400 feet up on a tower and the coverage will be a circle about 48 miles radius.)
I thought that was called “a cell phone”? [G, D & R]
No, Paul…we’re talking amateur radio, not cell phones…..your cell phone is nothing more than a fancy radio, anyway…..the rest of the cell phone is just fluff.
It’s freezing rain here right now, 1/11, at 10:50PM…..I’ve got about 1/4″ of glare ice covering my driveway, and the streets and interstate are NOT where I’d be tonight. I’m home, I’m heading for my bed, and I doubt I’m going anywhere in the morning, because this is supposed to last all night. Looking at the radar, it would appear that it will last all night, too.
Exactly the point my snide remark was making! Hams had 2m relays and phone patches for years before cell phones. The difference is corporations made it a money-making enterprize. Wanna see my handmade 1976 IMSAI personal computer? 😉
heck, we had orbiting communications satellites before commercial satellites came into vogue….your DirecTV feed? we were there first…and of course, we also used the Moon as a reflector to bounce signals back to Earth.
I haven’t explored the D-STAR system very much, but have connected with a bunch of other places… including the repeater in Spokane, KB7ARA. Haven’t talked to anyone there, because it’s not all that active, but the capability is there.