Follow-up to my post on August 16thI posted the picture of the "I Dream of Jeannie" DVD I assumed was suffering from bad "disc rot" the other day on Home Theater Forum. One reply I got said, "It 'looks' like an off gassing issue that is reversable." First time I had heard the term "off gassing". I had previously tried wiping the disc on the front ( Read more... )

Just finished my annual "dusting out" of the computer and replacing the CMOS battery...


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Just did a little dusting/sweeping in the living room. Didn't take much to tucker me out. Think it was the squatting to get the low places.

Just finished my annual "Cleaning of the Desktop PC". Took the side off, blew out all the dust with a can of compressed air, then replaced the CMOS battery, which I also do yearly as a precaution.

Mom Update: She's still at the hospital. She said she might be there until Sunday, according to the doctor ( Read more... )

Sometime this week, need to do the annual dusting out of the two desktop computers.

Swept and mopped bedroom floor...washed laundry...washed throw rugs...cleaned box fan...

You can tell I don't talk on the phone much when I have to dust it off every couple of days. What little chatting I do is online.

Since I was having problems digging in the closet trying to find some of the cassettes I wanted to digitize, decided today to clean a bunch of junk out of the closet, to access the boxes with the cassettes easier. Ended up throwing out a BUNCH of stuff, mostly empty boxes that contained electronics I've bought over the years in which the warranties ( Read more... )

This morning, I threw away a ton of paper from my desk. Most was index cards with website passwords on them. There were lots of cards with now defunct websites, and websites I never returned to after signing up. Heck, the card with "Jennicam" was still in that box!