by CJ | Jan 17, 2015 | Journal
Still working along on the older machine. And getting some progress. It’s snowing. I made a run after some cat food, and a guy at the grocery just blithely flings his car door wide just as I pull into the next space. Fortunately I have good reaction time, and...
by CJ | Jan 16, 2015 | Journal
…has started, according to the message. Whether this means they have a software or a hardware issue, we will not know perhaps until Monday. The Diagnosis phase on their graphic was a case of ‘blink and you’ll miss it.’ Whether it was that...
by CJ | Jan 15, 2015 | Journal
Because it went to Oregon from Spokane WA and it’s taken 3 days to get to Eden. It’s now on its way to Houston TX. It should get there Friday. We think. And I delayed mailing it last Friday because I didn’t want it sitting in a truck in Houston all...
by CJ | Jan 13, 2015 | Journal
I live with my computer. When it doesn’t work, I am not a happy person. And when I look in the Dell refurb offerings and find not one or two, but well more than 50 refurbed versions of my computer on offer, I am less happy than that. This indicates to me that a...
by CJ | Jan 10, 2015 | Journal
Well, being informed that the dancing about of the warning IS a Windows 7 and 8 response to a USB error, we concluded it could be due to a USB failure, or a software or third party hardware issue, and a system files scan proved no flawed Windows files. This left the...
by CJ | Jan 8, 2015 | Journal
—what could have been a site-fatal db screwup. We did lose a few bells and whistles, but we are now running cleaner and perhaps more functional than before. Bear with me while I get this site prettified again and get some features back. I’m having a...
by CJ | Jan 7, 2015 | Journal
still can’t get the program to update. We’re working on it.
by CJ | Jan 7, 2015 | Journal
…and for the first time in well over 10 years, I am going to have to mail the machine in. So I will be five days without my main computer. Argh! The good news is that I have a pretty good fallback—my old Latitude is still viable, and after being plugged in...
by CJ | Jan 5, 2015 | Journal
except the removeable dvd/cd affair won’t answer diagnostics. They may send another for me just to plug in. My keyboard lights up again. There’s new everything; and the USB —still complained again this evening, but reboot seemed to appease it. Every...
by CJ | Jan 4, 2015 | Journal
…the weather report says 2-3 inches possible. It’s 5 inches deep out there and still coming down. We are due to get another 2-3 inches tonight, which, by the way it is coming down, may be another five inches. Then it will ‘precipitate’ in the...
by CJ | Jan 3, 2015 | Journal
Now we shed the five pounds we gained since the start of the holidays. You may if you wish diet along with us. Needed: an assortment of breakfast items, either diet bars or eggs, bacon, that sort of thing, no toast. An assortment of lunch items: Campbell’s...
