….countertop….but it’s coming. November 13th. It’s a felicitous day. Can’t wait.
I can’t believe this stupid mouse ate the whole post. But it did. It’s cheap, it ‘jumps’ and sometimes obliterates text. Its sole virtue is being small enough to fit this dinky desktop beside the laptop.
Anyway, we have most of the floor, except for one stub of a hallway, done.
I spent yesterday mostly in exile because Jane was working on coating the bifold pantry doors—and I’m allergic. Ugh.
Consider a Logitech Trackball — they’re much better behaved than those tiny ‘laptop’ mice. I won’t try to post a link, but a search for ‘Logitech Wireless Trackball M570’ on your favourite Seattle online retailer should do the trick. I have several, just in case they decide to discontinue it some day. Nice thing is, I can use the same little dongle for my external keyboard as well for when I travel and know I’ll have to do a lot of writing.
my wired trackball is dying, and the !@#$%^&*()_!!! computer won’t recognize any other pointing device I’ve tried – including a wireless trackball and a basic two-button mouse. (The wired trackball is several years old.)
And this morning it’s recognizing a mouse, anyway.
Yay! Good thing you guys have a high frustration tolerance, and a high “Things-all-at-sixes-and-sevens-for-weeks-and-weeks” tolerance.
I have a Logitech Touch Mouse M600 and I love it. It’s wireless, small, uses touch scrolling instead of a scroll wheel (which I wear out very, very quickly). I don’t like their wireless keyboard, however, but I love their Logitech Illuminated Thin Keyboard K740.
And here I’d had the mental picture of a tiny, furry creature with big ears, a swollen belly and a long naked tail sitting next to the stub of a Parthenon pillar. The caption said, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing”.
I’m also a fan of the Logitech mice with the unifying receivers; I use them on a Dell laptop, a Samsung laptop and a home-built desktop and they seem to work pretty well. I did have to go download the Logitech software for the Samsung laptop when the mouse became unreliable a while back but that seems to have solved the problem. The receiver dongle plugs into a USB port and doesn’t use Bluetooth.
Kitchen sounds like it will be quite impressive when you guys are done. I keep looking askance at my Formica countertops, but I’ll have to live with them for a while more since we closed my husband’s company last year. Maybe I can earmark some tax season money for that.
Can you lay something temporarily over the cabinets to use as countertops while you wait for the real thing to arrive? Extra work space is always desirable. It’s one of the Laws of Excess, along with ‘You can’t have too much RAM’ and ‘Extra storage is always good’ and ‘Overengineer!’ and ‘Twice the displacement and really wide tires!’
Art-supply places should have oversized Masonite clipboards that would work – they come as big as a couple of feet the short way.
I should immortalize what we’re using: Scott nailed together a frame of 2×4’s to support the old sink stuck in one end of the old countertop, which is just laid in place, and is what we shall be using until the 13th Nov and probably toward Christmas, because they can only make the template for the new countertop AFTER the base cabinets are in. And it takes five weeks. It’s not using the old sink that makes me crazy—it’s using the old faucet, which can only emit a trickle of water…at one temperature, moderately cold. BUT it’s wonderful to have it, having used the tiny bathroom sink and the tub for water source during September and some of October. AND Scott installed the dishwasher, which is even more wonderful!
OTOH, the old coffee maker died the death, so I got the new one from the basement, where it’s resided in a box since the old one miraculously resurrected after we thought it was dead—and it’s wonderful except that the pot drips coffee on the counter. No matter how careful you are. I mean, Krups, for gosh sakes, you design a coffee maker that can be automatic and keep time and brew a really good cuppa, but you can’t design a coffee pot that can pour without dripping? So I got this Noritake coffee pot (doesn’t make coffee, just holds it) for 17.00 on Amazon. Now, really, Noritake for 17.00? Well, it is. It had the official sticker. But—it came with brown goo all over it in the box, so it was re-boxed, and I think it was salvage from a fire, flood, or sinking. Needless to say, I ran that thing through the dishwasher to get it white and clean, and then twice more because I don’t know what that goo was. I did mention it to Amazon. I think the pot should be clean, now, of whatever it was.
I think part of my problem may be mouse-sensitivity, which I can dial down via the computer, in Control Panel. It just may be over-hyped for this cheap (five dollar) mouse.
I’m sorry I’m a little off topic. I don’t often post here, but I saw this on USAToday’s sports page and I couldn’t help posting this. 🙂
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/10/baltimore-ravens-miami-dolphins-cat-on-field-thursday-night-football-tony-romo-call-jim-nantz-cbs-video
And in science news, astronomers have detected an asteroid coming through the system way off the ecliptic, and because of that, and it being on a “slingshot” hyperbolic path (as far as they can tell), they believe it’s from interstellar space.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/interstellar-asteroid-might-have-just-been-spotted-first-time?tgt=nr