christmastime in Shanghai is not a Jeopardy question
1) My computer is dead again: I was innocently wasting my time online yesterday when I was startled by a loud snap from somewhere inside the case, and then saw wisps of smoke curling up through the space between the keyboard and the bezel. After performing an autopsy, I'm pretty sure that the voltage regulator chip exploded. Maybe that's what was causing all of recent problems in the first place.
I'd love to try to desolder the bad chip and replace it with a new one, but my experiences with precision surface-mount electronics are quite limited. I'm hoping that I can find a Chinese guy manning a booth on the street who will replace the chip for 50 RMB.
2) Spending Christmas away from home for the first time in my life: I'm jealous again because it's currently snowing in Wisconsin, and I'm depressed because I'm lonely and internet-less. Calling my parents made me feel a little better. I've definitively determined that this whole "being an adult" thing is total bullshit. I want date balls and Legos, goddammit.
3) The opening night of Fame went off with only minor hiccups last night. After the show was done, the producers threw party for the whole company at a bar located in the basement of Toby's Shanghai apartment. The bar is made up of about 88 different rooms that were constructed as a bomb shelter during the war with the Japanese. I drank, talked to people, had fun, and then got vomit on my shoes when the head of the wardrobe department couldn't keep it down during the bus ride home. The upside: now I can probably use the washing machine whenever I want.
I'd love to try to desolder the bad chip and replace it with a new one, but my experiences with precision surface-mount electronics are quite limited. I'm hoping that I can find a Chinese guy manning a booth on the street who will replace the chip for 50 RMB.
2) Spending Christmas away from home for the first time in my life: I'm jealous again because it's currently snowing in Wisconsin, and I'm depressed because I'm lonely and internet-less. Calling my parents made me feel a little better. I've definitively determined that this whole "being an adult" thing is total bullshit. I want date balls and Legos, goddammit.
3) The opening night of Fame went off with only minor hiccups last night. After the show was done, the producers threw party for the whole company at a bar located in the basement of Toby's Shanghai apartment. The bar is made up of about 88 different rooms that were constructed as a bomb shelter during the war with the Japanese. I drank, talked to people, had fun, and then got vomit on my shoes when the head of the wardrobe department couldn't keep it down during the bus ride home. The upside: now I can probably use the washing machine whenever I want.