Another run of this popular past-time.

Simple rules.


* Post in this thread, anything with legible words.
* Stay within the message board rules.
* Empty posts are invalid towards winning.
* You must wait for someone else to post before you can post again, any multiple posts are invalid towards winning.
* Have fun.


Rules subject to change at moderators discretion without notice

The winner will be the last person that posted, when I have time to check the thread, after one of these events:


* A specific date and/or time occurs
* A specific number of posts have been made
* I get tired of y'all nagging me who is the winner :)
* I draw the winning card from a deck I keep hidden from everybody
* An event I have chosen occurs (doesn't occur).


Sorry there are no physical prizes, only the satisfaction you played and won and you name added into the winners list. :)

Congratulations to the last winner of the last game, ME!

Thanks to RandyC for running the last game.

Scorecard Recap of WINNERS of games.


* 2 for swiftmallard
* 3 for Krunchin-Keith
* 2 for Bymark
* 2 for John Clark
* 1 for Dune Finkleberry
* 4 for Mikey
* 1 for Ageless
* 3 for RandyC
* 1 for Alijay
* 2 for GasGiant
* 1 for DogBytes aka DP (RIP) < Honorary Win
* 1 for Cori


Let the game begin...

Welcome to the New Game Mikey and Randy.

This game theme is Unknown, I don't think I can come up with another story like the seven little piggies.

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I'm beat. I did way to much moving yesterday. I came in to work expecting to maybe have an hour to move stuff out. By 5pm I had moved EVERYTHING out, vakuumed several times. I even got the komputa out there turned off and moved, but not powered back up. I wanted to kheck it for dust and do some repairs on it.

When I got home I was really tired and really sore.

This morning we kleared out the two un-pickup equipment shelves and moved them out, they are in the little extra area just outside the sales kounter, I klaimed that korner too. Then I tried to fix the komputa. Pulled all the chips and cables and replugged them all in. It made no difference. What it does is start up fine, loading all the add ins ok. Then when you try to load our billing software it krashes, as in the power cycles, no blue screen, no warning even, it jsut goes black and starts rebooting. When it finishes and you try to load the same software again, it runs fine and the software runs all day no problem.

Well I got it running as best I can at the moment in its new spot, i don't now exactly what part is trying to fail. is it the p/s, cpu, memory, hard drive ?

I've been busy today with regular work, but in between i've started moving some things out there. I'll have to come in tomorrow and move my three komputas as that will take a while to disconnect, move and reconnect at new spots and i can't have them off that long during business hours as you never now when it will get busy, and then if there are startup probmlems, that makes it worse. It's not just three komputas, but also three printers, a label printer, two backup supplies, two external hard drives, three keyboards and mice, usb hubs and so on.

I might get some more other stuff moved today and stay ahead of schedule.

For now the network switch and one network drive have to stay back here. It will require me to pull all the kables and redo them from scratch to move it. I'll cheat by temporarily adding another switch up there and run the four units off the one cable to back here. I'll do that next weekend. If i get it done quickly i don't have to be here all day.

Once i get my komputas and daily used supplies, the rest of the stuff is non essential and can be moved later.

Oh well back to work while waiting for the next winner to show up.

I'm back online, mostly, at w&*k that is.

Today was hardware moving day. I got up before 6am, not with the intention of coming in that early, but then hey, I thought why not go in and get started, the sooner I start the sooner I finish.

Three hours to unplug, untangle and move all hardware to my new digs. (am by this time.

Boss kame in. My kleaning up of this area propted him to klean up a spot in the back. There was this 6 foot by 6 foot at least pile of stuff. He put some in a kloset and thew the rest away, leaving behind nothing in that spot. Wow it looks good, but I bet it don't last.

I then dusted and dusted out the dust bunnies and kows. Next was trying to figure out the new arrangement. It did go as well as i wanted, but in the end i've come up with a nice plan, photos one day. I used a lot of the kabinet doors I took off as shelves. Somehow I got a good fit, it was like building ta jig-saw puzzle without the picture, i had all the pieces, only I did not know which pices fit and where. I got a multi level setup.

I also spent about an hour running a phone line up here, I forgot I needed to reroute the line for the fax function on my printers. I ended up moving the router and switch back over to the server so I could plug them into it's ups for power.

I put another switch on this end of one long wire to run my three systems and the kheckout, which that wire used to go to. At some point i'll move the big switch up here, 24 ports, and run all the kables from here to everywhere else.

I ended up with one printer on the left, next to the 2 lcds. My two komputas sit on the right. They almost ended up below and then i rembered the ehat would be pouring out under me, so i had to change that. Actually they are in a better spot and get a direct blast from the a/c overhead vent. These are up about 10 inches from the kounter top. My keyboards are 3 inches down from them, still above the kounter top. There was this small wall around this station area i had to build around and over. Actually the multi level thing gave me room to hid wire under and behind stuff. Thsi still left an open area on the right at kounter top level to hand things back and forth. The third komputea will go below with the two upses. its single core and doesn't put out as much heat. its monitor sits to my left at kounter top level, below the first printer, but in front of it. the other two printers are below it in a kabinet, one on each shelf.

I still got to wire the third one up. but at least these two are working and restart without problems.

then theres still a lot of personal items to find spots for, but that kan wait.

I haven't had to use the two extra lights i had back on my other desk. I was able to see what i was doing all day and kan see this screen ok too. It makes a difference with sunlight koming in and all around me. None get to the back.

I've got a higher chair. And the keyboards are up enough, if I want i could stand here and work. I need those mini keyboards here now to give me more space. It's kind of krammed up, but not as much as my desk in the back was. I've got two keyboards side by side now instead of one behind the other. I may go back to using the second komputa more. the third i don't type on as much, just use that for shipping packages so it being offset is not a problem.

that's all for now, i've got to get back to it, i just needed to rest my back a while.

ps, no winner yet, keep trying.

Agreed, they run quite quickly and don't seem to error or get zero credit. But most of then are pending ATM.

The time depends on how new the Komputer is?

Lunch break at 3pm. Running behind today.

It's not too bad here 79F.

I came in a luttle early as I wanted to sort some stuff out and start on a couple of things to get use to my new office. The blasted internet was out. So it took me a while to determine it was not my problem, but the dsl. All I kan do on that is wait, ususally if i goes out they already know and it comes back on within 15 minutes. So I could not do any work, since all my monday morning stuff involves lookuing up stuff on the internet, email, my amazon sales is all web based, ups stuff for the morning is all downloads. what a bummer. It didn't kome back on until almost 9am.

It's been a good day, not much to do so it gives me time to reorganize. My back hurts again so i give up for the day.

I did get lots of rest yesterday. Only thing i did for a while was pull some weeds out of my flower garden, but all i did was sit in one spot on the ground, when i broke a sweet, i gave up and went inside. It was hot out like in the 90F's.

Today is not bad in the upper 70F's, but then i'm stuck inside with the a/c.

Oops back to work, jsut got an internet order.

Rain is good, we got none. Very little since April 1st. My barrels are empty. I've used up the inch in the two buckets. I've got different size buckets, i get them from the recycle center. They are what other people leave, like chlorine or some other chemicals come in, I don't get the ones kat stuff komes in as they are not round and have cheap handles that break. I've got some that hold like 9 gallons, which is getting a little too heavy for me to lift and carry very far. I keep two on the porch, after i water the palnts i fill them back up. It takes about one and a kwarter just to do the vegetables whcih I do every day. Sometimes they are bone dry, those things are drinkin' like a fish or maybe Mikey :) Just kidding Mikey. ITs easier to fill the bucket and then dip my water kan into it, that way I can put the hose on slow fill and it refills while I water. Saves time instead of me standing there waiting for the water kan to refill and its easier than lugging the hose around even if I make five trips back to the bucket.

Well I'm too tired to do much else, just wait for my dinner to kook then pass out.

No WINNERS Yet, someone remind me when its winning time.

Third straight day of clouds and rain, unusually cool too. Lots of MC to crunch.

And now you are sending it my way, THANKS!! It is only 71F ourside but it is like 70% humidity!! It is supposed to rain this morning and then again tomorrow but be sunny and then hot on Thursday and Friday again.

I saw a squirrel on my deck eating a tomato yesterday!! I was so fast getting out there he jumped off the deck and landed on the ground, over 10 feet down. He then ran into the bushes to hide but I started shooting at him and he ran away. Yes I have green tomatoes about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch in diameter already with many, many flowers getting ready to turn into tomatoes! The hot peppers are still in the teeny, tiny stage and are barely even visible, hmmmm! I may have to get my trap back out and make the squirrels make new friends!

And Keith I do drink alot but it is mostly iced tea I make in my iced tea maker. I make a batch every day or 2 and then carry around a water bottle full of it all day long.

I am now WINNING!!

...or above 90F, but hopefully a little less humidity.

Keith, I know you think 90F is pretty much nothing, but up here it's August weather...in June???

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All is calm here. Around 81F Today. It rained lightly this morning after I got to work so i didn't get wet. The the sun came out, now its clouding up again. The things you can see when you have an office with a view. By the way my window is 6 spaces as wide as a door and that tall, plus another section of windows above that level. Lots of scenery passes by.

I use vacuums to dust mine out.

At work i've got an old electrolux bullet shaped unit with an automatic retracing cord. it has a suck and blow hole. so i jsut put the hose in the blow end. of kourse i turn the komputers off and disconnect all kables. But then also i use an upright vacumming with a hose attachment on suck. so one blows and the other sucks up msot of the dust. i only use plastic attachments on the end of the hose and i have an extra hose from an old vac i also use on one vac to give me extra length. i kould take them outside but them i've got to move the komputa, vacs out there andf alos get a long extension kord. to much to lug around so i just do it inside. with the one on suck it does a pretty good job of sucking up what i blow out, i jsut work slow and hold it to ketch the dust.

At home i've got an upright and i kan stick the hose in the blow hole which is under the exhaust filter. it doesn't fit perfectly but well enough. I then do them near the winder where i got a big fan that sucks, and blows the dust out the winder or i use a second older vac that still sucks through the hose but the other part is broke. old junk can sometimes still be useful even if it only half works. Again i have another old hose from some older vac

i try to do mine twice or four times a year.

At home now being they are krated and have good konstant air flow they kollect very little dust. there is just no time for it to settle anywhere.

At work when i dusted out my units this last weekend, a lot came out. We live at the beach, a very dusty area since it is always windy kicking up beach dust, fine sand. Also i work in the shipping room and have four paper shredders which generate more dust. Actually the grinding does not kick up the dust, its when i use the shreddies as packing material it flies around. A lot came out, some big gum ball size globs, but there was not enough buildup anywhere to cause any slow down or temp problems. I think the cpu koolers with the bigger fan blowing on the cpu keeps it from settling there. I didn't notice any change in reported temps, maybe a degree F or two, but nothing noticible as reported from cpuz when i restarted them.

I have in the past burnt up a hard drive, i suspect because it had too much dust on it. But that was over 13 years ago, before im oved here, when komputas waz power monsters, i think it was a 5.25 inch half hight size back then.

Almost done moving and settling in and arranging stuff.

I've got one small cabinet of some stuff to go through and move.

Then what is left is some old equipment which will probally all go into recycling. I don't have room to keep it. It makes nice antiques for the kollection but theres no room here and no room in my garage at home either.

I just snapped my knee moving an old unit. That means pain, but only when it bends with weight on it, so i got to stand up a while. I have to rest it now. No more moving junk today. Yeah i'm falling apart, have been for years. My knees are torn up from bycycling when i was younger. Then i inured my back on the job once or twice. It gets better but once and a while it acts up again. I can't work on my kar engie without it hurting and sometimes whiel doing dishes it hurts, just that little bend over makes it hurt after a while, but its fine if i'm sitting or stand up straight. And my left wrist comes and goes too. It's fine now, i'm surprised i didn't starin it moving all this stuff.

No rain in stight, next 5 days calls for sun only.

[quote]It looks like this batch of test WUs is winding down.

My kruncher just died. The one i was having problems with and had changed the mobo and memory. I had just watchedd part of a dvd, then stopped that and walked away and it rebooted and acted like there was no ahrd drive. I turned it off after the third reboot told me to insert a boot device. It will stay off a while, but that also means my gpu won't be a krunchin'. I'll fool with it on saturday. maybe that reinstall of winderz will come sooner than planned.

For now sleep is in the immediate future.

Good Early Morning,

Today is feeding day, all the planties need some blue stuff again. I use some that mixes with the water, whatever i can find on sale cheap. I do this every two weeks, seems like i jsut did it a few days ago, not two weeks. I split it up though sometimes. One day i'll do all the outdoorzies and the next day all the indoorzies.

Checking the forkast we have 5 days of partly kloudy. They did not even try to estimate a chance of rain.

I was out looking over the garden. I've didn't put much in the ground. I did put some regular white p'taters in the ground and some in pots. I don't water the ground ones but once or twice a week, not like i water all the potted veggies daily. They look, at least the plant part, as good as the pot ones. I've got some flowers in the ground too that seem to be doing well. It surprise me as there has been so little rain, but then again we are only 1 inch above sea level here. so the water table is pretty high.

I might work on that kompua some today. I think it is winderz that died. I kan power it on, get into bios setup, so memory, cpu and video work. When it tries to boot up winderz starts to load, about 2.5 time that bar rolls by and then it dies, a bsod flashes up for 1ms so it is impossible to see what the error is. After 15 tries all i got was one word 'advanced' out of it. Too hard to focus and get anything and trying to press 'pause' never did any good. I did discover it had a resore partition on the drive, but i never made up a cd to boot it. They had some weird way to access it. i don't think i can make one now. I might do jsut as well and try to start over. At this point nothin is lost, i got any good data off it and ahve a kopy of the 'my documents' i wanted to go through and double kheck. i kan plug the drive into a usb adapter i got and see if i kan save boinc off of it, at least the data directory so i kan restore it and all my settings after i rebuild this rig.

My otrher two komputa have a restore partition, but it is defined as a drive letter, i renamed it to "R:" and i think there is an restore program in the menus somewhere to access it. If you try to view drive R , it tells you its locked. so you can't wipe it out or overwrite someting. A good thing for novices. I see a program in the start-up that does that, but i didn't remvoe it. By naming it R for Restore, i remember better what it is when i view my komputa.

Then there is the other dead komputa. I forget now even what waz wrong with it.

I think i'll just leave those until the fall. I'm kind of tired of werkin' on these things, between w&*k and here and any friends that bug me.

I've got to go to recycling today, the kar is loaded with some old komputas. There were 3 486/33's and some older ones, 386 and 286 maybe one is 12MHz. They have 'dos' on them and the 33 stands for 33MHz, NOT G. One was our server so it has novell netware. They were the best money could buy when we bought them. I kind of liked them as they had EISA buses. These were different from the ISA bus in that the kards plugged in identifed themselves and interrupts and memory and ports kould be set by the bios into flash ram or eeprom on the board. this resolved konflicts before you loaded the os. This was early plug-n-play, although they didn't kall it that. With ISA you had to konfigure this by jumperz on the hardware which meant power off and opening up the unit. This eventually phased out and became or was taken over by PCI. I see one rig has 8 memory slots, My guess though is that would give me a max of about 8 Meg. And the things weigh a ton. the 386 is even heavier. Must be all that lead in the kases. Very little plastic on these babies. I think for a hard drive the server had twin 345Meg SCSI drive. One primary and one backup. The work stations kould boot off a floppy so they didn't need hard drives.

I wonder if they even still power up, i hadn't tried since at least 1997 when we moved here. We bought something else but we brought these with us. I kept them because i was sentimental at the time. At this point i don't think i'll miss them.

I remember that kompua we first bought when we moved here. Kan't think of the speed at the moment, but it must have been a pentium I. That one is in the recycle pile too. I though it was fast back then, but after a while my spreadsheet was very slow. When we upgraded to something else, i wondered how i even got through the day as it was like 10 times as kwick qand now were 100 times kwicker, at least. I first used the internet that year, 1997, i remember trying to search for some rare part, and found it, to my bosses amazement, and mine. Before that i had not used it even though it had been around a short while.

In my kleaning and moving I also found a kopy of windows 3.1 on six 3.5in disks.

This brings back some memories for me. When we bought these 486's, i had to set up the netware, i took the units home, laid them out in my living room and went to it, reading a BOOK and figuring out how to install it, set it up and get the system going.

Back then we had to manually konfigure hardware and drivers. I named my server 'Deep Space Nine' and the attached work stations i named after ships of the fleet. Mine was the 'USS Galaxy', a pair of 286's were the 'USS Monitor' and 'USS Merimac' as they were the oldest we had still running, like old ironklads. I had a list of all the registry numbers, the faster the cpu, the higher the number i gave it and i divided the 486's, 386's and 286's into different klasses. I forget the rest at this point. Things were fun back then.

Good to hear you survived.

I'm staying indoors. After feeding the plants, I decided to measure out my buckets. It klose but not 100% accurate. I used a 2 kwart kontainer, so every 2 kwarts I put a mark on the first bucket. Then I emptied that one two kwarts at a time into the other bucket so i kould mark it while double khecking the first. I didn't exaclty ahve two kwarts each time, but it was klose to the line, above or below. So the big buckets a 6 Gallons, Then I've got a 5 Gallons and a 3.5 Gallon Bucket. They kome from recycling where other people drop rthem off, they are like pool khemicals, but rater in pounds so I kould not tell how many gallons they hold. The 6 G buckets weight 50 pounds when full. I kan lift that much but when karring two up or down the stairs, it gets a bit much. I don't karry those up and down the stairs any more.

Oh, so why am I staying insdie. I got bit by a deer fly twice and then by two skeeterz. all of which won't bite anything else because they got flattened by my hand. I've never had deer flies on the porch.

Keep trying to win, we're getting kloser every day.

Here's a good one, over at amazon. They can save your printer model, so that when you look up ink cartridges, it tells you if that cartridge fits.

So for instance i'm told the #82 Black fits my X5150. alos #82 Colro fits my X5150. But the combo pack of #82 and #83 it tells me won't fit. What a hoot.

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So today's project, beside being totally blasted before noon is to put taps on my kegs. OK there water barrels. Also i've been saying the wrong volume, they are marked and it looks liek 35 Gallons not 55. I just remembered wrong. I'll fill on up with 5G buckets and double check. Anyay the project requires me to drill awhole. Not difficult but most of my tools are packed away still in moving boxes from 1997. So I had to use my backup tools. I've got some drill bits with hex ends on them that fit my manual crew drivers, just like a screw bit. But i'm only drilling into plastic, so it takes about 6 turns and i'm done. Then i ream out the hole to the size of the peice i'm using as a tap. Taht is actually harder as i have to be sure not to ream out too much. Takes about 5 minutes. Got two of the threee done. Then i stick in the tap, it is one of those hose adapters i have and seal it with clear silicone. Then when it dries i have a valve that screws on to that peice and my hoses will plug in. Not that this does me any good because we've had no rain to speak of in 3 months.

Speaking of silicone, i fianlly fixed my kar leak. I found that the whole strip done the side of the windshield was loose. You could not see it, but when it rained ahrd, it forced water under it. I bought this marine saltwaterprrof silicone. It costa bout 3 times as much as regular household stuff. But i sealed the area i patched and down along that whole strip and ahven't seen water in my kar since, not that it has rained much, but a kouple of times it briefly rained hard and no water. So that is the same stuff i used to seal the fitting in the keg.

Someone kount the spe3lling errors so i know how drunk i am. Usually my reflexes get bettter the more i drink. I use to hang out at this bar, that had these video machines. The manager would sit there all day long palying the thing. Then i came along and every game got better and pushed him off the screen. The more i drank the faster i could play. He could not even keep up with my hand movements and he wasn't drinkin'. drove him nuts. It was a majong game where you match up the pairs of tiles around the edges to reduce the pile and was a touchscreen game. I'm not sure what was more fun, playing the game or beating the manager. either way i was WINNING. I kan tell i'm actually typing fasster than normal.

Dang, its only noon and i started a little before beer-thrirty.

Time to go out and tap that third keg, then do some weeding and hope no more flies kome to bite me. With SoCo in me, my blood probally isn't appealing to them.

Mikey, I never made it to recycling.

I will pull the drives before i go over or i'll try to power these up for fun and see if i can erase them. But the info is so old its useless, it would only be names and addresses from 20 years ago. I'm sure everybody has moved by now. It would have phone numbers, but no secure data on those drives, we did not have credit cards or ssn numbers stored on accounts back then. We don't know either. Most of it would be like invoice numbers, items sold and balances. That would do no good as the equipment sold is no longer made, like komputas it don't last. There is only a little data, remember the drives were only 345 Meg, and 2/3rd of that was extra space. Think pre winderz bloatware.

Yesterday was so beautiful, i did some lite work to give my knee and back a rest. I did some weeding, bugged the neighbor a while, all the time being out in the sun. It did not feel hot, except when i walled across the black road in my bare feet. After that i did some vine removal under a big tree. Some prickley things and another creeper that runs up trees. I tried to get as many roots as i kould, but some were in deep. When i got sort of tired i just kept kutting little shoots of and forgot about pulling up the roots. The less green leaves it has the less it has to grow by. I get rid of some every year. It's slowing going away. I never broke a sweet.

Today it is a roasting, I was sweeting in the shade.

I beginning testing my kegs today. I changed the name from barrels, 'cause they are now tapped. I put one at the top of the stairs, kind of under a plant. I filled it then using a hose watered some of the plants on the stairs which would be below the tap level. It flowed out really slow as there is not preasure. It works, but not well enough for a daily kwick watering. I intend it moe to ketch and store rain water and i'll drain it off as needed, maybe into a bucket. I put the taps about an inch up from the bottom, so krud kould settle and not get sucked through the hose as much.

I'm also working on fixing the other two up, they fit under the stairs, but i need some kind of platform to put them on. At least a buckets height, so i kan put buckets under the taps. I though maybe if i could get some more buckets i kould turn them upside down and put the barrels on top of them.

What else I kan do is run a hose from the upper keg down under the staris to the lower ones. The upper can be the ketch keg and drain into the lowers and i'll turn it off the tap when the lowers are full so it kan fill. I need some more hoses. I have a bunch of 10 foot ones, but all are in use. I needd a few more and the good thing about those is I kan konfigure them in differet ways without a lot of extra hose laying around.

Another thing i thought of is getting some drip hose to put on the veggies going down the stairs and then tapping into the keg. Would work good for that, and I just turn it on a while to water all 8 at once.

It's still a project under konstruction.

Let me go brave the outdoors again, i'm showing 93F

Mikey,

I know how much water weighs as my housemate works for the water plant. He can tell you the pressure it will have on the hose too at the height the keg is mounted up on the porch. As long as it flows down hill, that is good enough for me.

I figured it at 275 pounds per barrel. I'm not sure if the buckets would hold that much, but it will be aout 6 buckets to hold up the barrels. These are not really buckets like you would buy in the store made of thin plastic, these are like paint or chemical kontainers, made of heavy guage plastic strong enough for me to stand on. I'm not as heavy as a full barrel, but if I have 6 that divides the weight each holds up. Maybe I kould do 8. If they kollapse nothing lost because they are free. Cinder blocks kost money. More important will be to put so/mething in the sand so they don't sink. Sometimes they kome with lids, that would help. It's an experiment anyway and not meant to be permanant. I might almo be able to use old pallets, we had some buet someone kolelcted them all just before i kame up with this, so we got none here now. I'll ahve to wait a while for more truckload shipments to kome in, but with no sales, I see none komming.

I Kan't do MW, my GPU's are not that expensive.

Hot here again yesterday and today, it's now 78F at 6AM, the sun isn't even over the dune yet, and its a small dune. I Heard a thunderstorm nearby Sunday, but we got no rain at my house, not a drip.

I got my new keyboards at work yesterday. Same mini ones I ahve at home. I went in early to set them up, then encountered problems and one that had kropped up started getting worse. The mice kept autoselecting stuff when i didn't want them to. Didn't have problem before i moved. I realaized I had moved the mouse receiver from the front of the units to a hub, and during hookups, I didn't plug the hub power cords in. They work without power, but too many devices will cause weird behavior sometimes when they are unpowered. Fine for three self powered printers, but the mouse receiver gets its power only from usb. When i added the usb keyboards, for konvenience i plugged them in to at the hubs instead of going to the back of the units for either usb or ps2, things got worse until i found the problem.

Then I got into a problem with the printers, i had uninstalled or deleted printer stuff when #2 broke before and when i moved all the printers to #1 things were fine. Now that i'm using #2 again also, I kould not fax from it. Easy solution seemed to be to move one printer back. These are all-in-ones with print-fax-scan functions. Not much problem there but I had to go through the accounting software and change a bunch of settings so each station prints to the korrect printers. It's kind of weird and if a printer set in it doesn't exist, it will print to the default but that doesn't work if its a fax, it will print instead of faxing. So I had to fool with that for a while and straighten out that mess.

There was some other minor problem but it was a brain taxing day.

Now if I can just get things stabalized and figure out a rythym. It's been a hectic kouple of weeks.

Time to get a new cell phone. The cell kompany wants to give me one and upgrade the cell plan to a cheaper plan with more features. I'll be getting a 4G Android phone. Anyone else have 4G or some kind of Android ?

Time to get a new cell phone. The cell kompany wants to give me one and upgrade the cell plan to a cheaper plan with more features. I'll be getting a 4G Android phone. Anyone else have 4G or some kind of Android ?

I was going to get one because my current one, Verizon, doesn't work inside the buildings at my old work. I was going to switch providers and get a new phone at the same time. My old boss would email me stuff too and of with no cell phone coverage and no smart phone either I didn't get his messages. Now a lot of things are on hold for me, let us know how it goes though I here they are GREAT!!

Randy that is GREAT news too, glad it is all working again!!

WINNING!!

I considered getting a Smartphone/iPhone/Android...for about 3 seconds. I have absolutely no need for such a thing. My cell phone is for talking or (occasionally) texting. Nothing more.

Next project on the quad I guess, is to replace the bad memory stick. I went out to the Crucial.com website and to get an RMA they want 20-zillion numbers. Luckily, most of them are on the memory stick...which is at home, not here. Well, sooner or later I'll get the system back up to snuff. Meanwhile I'm...

WINNING!!!

Morning shift on deck and...

WINNING!!!

Thanks for announcing me as the winner this morning!

John my RAC is up to 319,138 this morning, although I did 380,259 yesterday.

Keith I am knocking on wood here but over the years I have bought lots of different kinds of memory and only 1 stick has gone bad. I still have it and should throw it away but I just haven't. Yes it is crucial memory but no I don't have the receipt so no it can't be replaced under warranty. Now when I buy stuff I keep the receipts, but back then I did not. I have had other peoples memory go bad on them and I ended up buying new stuff and replacing it for them though, we usually upgraded the total size of the ram at the same time.

Poke then BUMP

John you KNOW what happens when you poke people! My RAC right now is up to 322,331!!! That is up 4,000 just from this morning!!!

Keith you know it is summer time and alot of people are throwing stuff out, you should be able to find some old hoses in the trash around town, cut them to length and put your own ends on cheaper than 10 bucks per hose! Those ends are easy to use and cheap!!

I'm melting. Kar said it was 108F when i left work, that is on the outside. It did drop some on the way home, to 107F. I didn't check the temp when I got home, but now an hour later my outdoor unit shows 96F. I watered the plants and drank a large glass myself, now i think i'll take a shower and stay inside the rest of the evening. Remember too this is not even July, It is suppose to get hotter around here in July and August.

The error seemed to be disk availability, or allowance, related. Now the error seems to be for other reasons.

Not winning as well as I should.