I have now been out of the tech support business for more than a year. Gone are the days when I called dell everyday. Gone are the days when I plotted to the moment when to call for the shortest wait time. Gone are the days when I literally timed how long it took a technician to finally give me what I always knew I needed. Gone are the days when I ( Read more... )

I have started using the new Beta 5 version of Firefox 3. Naturally firefox rocks my world since it has tabbed browsing, a bookmark toolbar, an effective built in pop-up blocker, awesome user friendly keyboard shortcuts, and a billion other features that make it pwn Internet Explorer. In typical Mozilla fashion Firefox 3 looks like it will be more ( Read more... )

Now that I have a job I have found myself with an excess of time. At first I couldn’t imagine what to do with my surplus of time. There is television, but in classic television style, despite having some two hundred channels, there is never anything on when you can watch TV. I tried puzzling, but that’s never been my favorite pastime. I thought ( Read more... )

I've been trying to figure out exactly what is missing from my favorites. I know that before the pre-china hard drive crash i had more favorites than i do now, and even before the China hard drive fatality I had more, but for some reason I couldn't think of what was missing. I have my e-mail sites, LJ, Pandora, assorted television and music sites, ( Read more... )

So I apologize for the lengthy absence and the lack of any real kind of communication. I dropped my computer a couple of weeks ago, and that was the killing stroke for my already failing hard drive. I did, however, already have a replacement drive, but no windows disks. One of the plus sides to being in China is that you can easily purchase a fake ( Read more... )

At work there is this computer that is possessed by demons, I swear ( Read more... )

Here is a logic problem for you.
IF (a)you are an external hard drive
AND (b)you die after one week
THEN (c) you are a piece of crap

Freckles is back, and inspected. I’m almost afraid to drive her for fear of something else going wrong and needing repair.

I got my job at BJs back. Well, sort of. I can’t wait tables because I can barely deal with my weight, adding a tray and trying to balance would just not happen… especially not when my left hip started rejecting MY weight. So I told BJs that I needed to do cash shifts because of my broken-ness and the first shift I get is a Tuesday night Lead. ( Read more... )