Finally got Mediacom installed today - by Sam List, the brother of our favorite IT professional, Jordan List! It took a while because Mediacom had to "port over" our phone number so we didn't have to change it - a VERY good thing ( Read more... )

Last time on Live Journal ( Read more... )

A bit of background: several years ago, our formerly local (right here in Excelsior Springs) Excel Computer sold the DSL portion of the business to KCNet, which was still sorta local. Then, a couple of years ago, KCNet sold out lock, stock and barrel to Turnkey Internet in New York. I liked the fact that even though they were no longer local, at ( Read more... )

Last Sunday we had an order for a CD that we are out of. No problem - I have everything I need on my laptop to burn new ones and our Epson Artisan 810 all-in-one color printer/scanner/copier/fax machine with CD/DVD printing capability to print the labels. So I burned three printable CDs, downloaded the label onto my thumb drive, plugged it in to ( Read more... )

It’s been an interesting year so far, and we’re only to the middle of February ( Read more... )

It actually started yesterday when we went out to the cabin and discovered it had been broken into again. No additional damage or loss (we think) but we did notice that at some point someone had stolen both axes we kept out there and apparently used one on one of the uprights on the deck. It may have happened before and we just didn't notice. ( Read more... )

We got the old CPU back Friday - there was still some stuff that had to be pulled off of it. So I connected it to a keyboard, a mouse and a monitor and powered it up. In about 1.5 seconds it powered itself down again and refused to do anything further. So I called Art (our computer guy) and he stopped by. The only thing he could figure was a ( Read more... )

Two warnings ( Read more... )

Well, as katequicksilvr wrote the other day, it looks like our little Frack will only have his newly adopted brothers and sisters for company. It's really a shame, because he really can't play with them the way he did with his brother: Merlin's too big to wrestle with and the others are just too old and crabby - they just hiss at him. Without Frick the name ( Read more... )