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Jun. 26th, 2008 11:38 pmI need valium. Or liquor. Or both. My baby has decided that walking is the fun, and she is no good at it. This is concerning because there are things like bricks on the fireplace and sharp corners and stuff. She took fourteen steps once when I counted and possibly more than that on one other occasion. Progress! After those first steps a few weeks ago, she rather lost interest until this afternoon. Kids are weird. Also, I grew sixteen new gray hairs in the time it took M to make a tech support phone call.
And why was he making a tech support call? Because his brand new computer arrived again today from its journey back to Gateway for repairs. It was most likely a power supply issue causing it to power itself off randomly. They replaced the motherboard (okay, also a possibility), the processor (you're stretching it, guys) and the.... modem. Uhh. What? They didn't even touch the power supply. But.. the MODEM? Didn't even know that it HAD a modem. He plugged it up, and it failed to boot. Then, it inexplicably came on, but turned itself off after five minutes, same as before. He called them and the tech told him to turn the system off, unplug it and hold the power button in for 45 seconds. This was obviously going to be hokey, but he did it. It's been running ever since. No clue why. Soooo.. either this oddball solution is going to permanently fix whatever the problem is, in which case the previous three weeks of M's computer being out of commission was a total waste of time and why didn't they tell him that the first time he called? OR, more likely, he will have to send the thing back again and STILL be without his computer. Bleh. At least it's under warranty and it didn't cost anything except time and aggravation. We have never really had a computer under warranty before, as they have always been customs. It's novel.
Reba, the sitcom? Is really a cute show. I had no idea. There are nice things about staying at home during the day, it seems. Hehe.
One other thing and then I have to go to bed. My grandfather has this shop across the road from his house. It has wood tools upstairs and a garage downstairs and it's the size of a house. He has an incredible talent for a good many things, especially making things with wood. It's really sad because he doesn't get to spend much time up there anymore because he really shouldn't be working alone in case something were to happen (bad vision, health problems, power tools, etc.) So anyway, this woodshop. It's got a lot of expensive pieces of equipment. Last week some fucking crackwhores broke into his shop and cut the power cords off of most of them to sell them for copper. They'll make three dollars, and for that, they ruined thousands of dollars worth of tools belonging to an 80-year-old man. NICE. It makes my blood boil just thinking about it. Had they taken ONE of those things instead of destroying them, they could have made more money than they're going to get. I would be mad as hell if they had stolen everything (though I would be grudgingly impressed with them for getting the planer out with noone noticing..heh) but I can't believe the sheer waste of something like this. He may be able to repair some of them.. we'll see, I guess. Bastards.
And why was he making a tech support call? Because his brand new computer arrived again today from its journey back to Gateway for repairs. It was most likely a power supply issue causing it to power itself off randomly. They replaced the motherboard (okay, also a possibility), the processor (you're stretching it, guys) and the.... modem. Uhh. What? They didn't even touch the power supply. But.. the MODEM? Didn't even know that it HAD a modem. He plugged it up, and it failed to boot. Then, it inexplicably came on, but turned itself off after five minutes, same as before. He called them and the tech told him to turn the system off, unplug it and hold the power button in for 45 seconds. This was obviously going to be hokey, but he did it. It's been running ever since. No clue why. Soooo.. either this oddball solution is going to permanently fix whatever the problem is, in which case the previous three weeks of M's computer being out of commission was a total waste of time and why didn't they tell him that the first time he called? OR, more likely, he will have to send the thing back again and STILL be without his computer. Bleh. At least it's under warranty and it didn't cost anything except time and aggravation. We have never really had a computer under warranty before, as they have always been customs. It's novel.
Reba, the sitcom? Is really a cute show. I had no idea. There are nice things about staying at home during the day, it seems. Hehe.
One other thing and then I have to go to bed. My grandfather has this shop across the road from his house. It has wood tools upstairs and a garage downstairs and it's the size of a house. He has an incredible talent for a good many things, especially making things with wood. It's really sad because he doesn't get to spend much time up there anymore because he really shouldn't be working alone in case something were to happen (bad vision, health problems, power tools, etc.) So anyway, this woodshop. It's got a lot of expensive pieces of equipment. Last week some fucking crackwhores broke into his shop and cut the power cords off of most of them to sell them for copper. They'll make three dollars, and for that, they ruined thousands of dollars worth of tools belonging to an 80-year-old man. NICE. It makes my blood boil just thinking about it. Had they taken ONE of those things instead of destroying them, they could have made more money than they're going to get. I would be mad as hell if they had stolen everything (though I would be grudgingly impressed with them for getting the planer out with noone noticing..heh) but I can't believe the sheer waste of something like this. He may be able to repair some of them.. we'll see, I guess. Bastards.
