There are people who will think this is irresponsible, and there are people who will think this is grand. I bought a laptop on Monday afternoon. It's a Toshiba Satellite L450, and much bigger than I thought I could afford. Hurray for inventory reducing sales ( Read more... )

Honest.

I started off May with 5 computers to my name, 3 desktops and 2 laptops. I am now officially down to 1 each. The winning desktop is the Athlon that used to belong to ayrcha. We pulled hardware out of both the desktops that were recycled. But wow. Most of the sorting is done. I think I found a place to store the 10-12 boxes and the bicycle. When ( Read more... )

Among other errands, we dropped Delirium (the eldest computer I had with me) off at UPS to be shipped to the recycling service.

RIP Delirium.

We started off May with me having 5 computers. We're down to 3. By the end of next week, I should only have two, the Athlon desktop and the working laptop. (One of them is named Desire -- I'm not sure which ( Read more... )

Still about the computers...

I got to see my wallpaper for 3 old computers. Discord had pink norns playing with flowers. the Athlon has pretty paper doll Louis-Antoine St. Just, and Destiny has an alethiometer from the advertising for The Golden Compass movie ( Read more... )

Last night, Cantropos' geeky and very handy older cousin came over to play with my computers. For those of you who don't know I have a motley collection of 5 aged computers (2 laptops and 3 towers) all running Win98. I have information and programs and games scattered all over the place ( Read more... )

Someone just took the trouble to explain OpenID to anyone who's still unclear what it is or how it works. Thanks
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Choir rehearsal was a bit of a farce for me though the pipe organ sounded magnificent. I can barely breathe. The director suggested Mucinex, but I don't think we can afford it. It looks interesting, and maybe a better kind of medicine since it lets the mucus do its work ( Read more... )

Chris and I finally have two itty bitty flash drives that work with his computer. And the smallest works with Delerium too so that's something.

I'm feeling  a little bit better.

Well, Chris's cousin loaned/gave me a monitor for my computer. It's huge one too. 17 inches. And it works. Yay. So I finally got the bedroom rearrranged with the bed turned and the antique desk moved to where the internet cable could reach. But in adjusting things I accidentally pulled the cable too hard and it disappeared from the other side of ( Read more... )

I worked hard on Delerium the other day to back up enough information onto CDs to be able to run a defrag and recover nearly half the drive space from unnecessary files. I loaded Sims Deluxe on it. Everything was going well. Then my monitor died. Permanently. It's been shutting itsefl off randomly after about 2 hours or work or so. I usually would ( Read more... )