The new to me laptop is here. No AC adapter, so any plans to work with it are on hold till I get back home. I'm planning that some time around 3/25. It does have a 1TB drive, though when I get back I'll swap that out with the other 14 inch laptop I have that has a 2TB one, and make it dual boot into Ubuntu and FreeBSD then ( Read more... )

And for that day, as something special I ran the truck over about 30 miles of ice. I finally made it out of the Portland area, which I had sat in for three days due to chain laws and accidents on i84 both Tuesday and Wednesday. Which reminds me. I need to start looking for loads outta here picking up around Saturday or so. Tomorrow I deliver, ( Read more... )

So yeah. On 12/5 Frontier came over and upgraded our internet service from 15/5M to...whatever it is now. Hang on. Huh. It hasn't been updated on their site yet. Ah well ( Read more... )

This activity always seems like a fight to the finish with me. I'm busy looking up a chocolate espresso cheesecake recipe, and of course the one I always used isn't showing!

Then...hooray! I made a wild guess and went directly to a site I seem to gravitate towards, Epicurious. Yes, I'm still old school and typed that link out by hand, html tags ( Read more... )

With tax season coming up, it's getting imperative that I have one laptop capable of running Windows(yuck), since Turbotax comes only in Winduhs/Mac flavors ( Read more... )

So, last Saturday we got home. Yay. And on the way in we took the truck to the Aurora, OR TA to get our Landstar 120 day inspection. It passed no problem there. A bigger yay. However when I got out into the bay to sign paperwork, my foot slipped on some oil coated cement. My right foot slid left, and down I went. OW. Nothing seriously ( Read more... )

Yup. It's all done, or mostly anyway. The computer work is not quite halfway there. This is what's left to do.

1. Remove the drive from the A6. It's the only good part of that thing.


2. Swap out the current drive in the P875 with the one from the A6.


3. Take THAT drive and install it into the tiny little HP.


4. Install both Win7 and Ubuntu(dual boot) onto ( Read more... )

Okayyyy. I am now the owner of a Toshiba P875 laptop, the successor to the P775 that has the wonky video. I'm still hoping to get that one fixed, but this new one I think will replace two others.

1. The Lenovo G770 with a broken top plate, which means one hinge isn't screwed down and flops around.
2. The slow as shit Toshiba A6. Slower than my old ( Read more... )

Well, the Toshiba's screen is just out now. So it's time to get it repaired, and step up the search for the backup. This HP works okay, but such a small screen. The Lenovo I could repair since I know one screwhole on the top is crunched, so that's why that hinge is loose inside. But...try finding it now. Ugh.

What follows is a list of electrical issues dealing with the truck or household items that have suffered electrical disconnects.

• The connector for the driver's side headlamp seems to have overheated, and the ground burned up, resulting in replacement. So far, so good. This is most likely at least partly due to the ECM telling the alternator to ( Read more... )