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January 29, 2006
News from the week
Well, it's definately been an interesting week here at the old homestead. Let's start out with the positive things that have happened.
1. Amanda and I re-arranged our bedroom for the new furniture. We have a place to put our clothes now and it all looks really good. The old plastic drawers are now working as a functional storage unit in the home office.
2. Our new king size mattress with pillow-top has been delivered. I surprised Amanda with the mattress on either Wednesday or Thursday. I took apart the old bed and cleaned up all of the junk that was under it that the cats had knocked under there (i.e. cat toys). I also was able to do something that I've been meaning to do for the past three years: I attached the headboard to the bed frame. It doesn't move now.
... now for the things that didn't go so well.
3. Both Amanda and my cars had problems that needed repair. My exhaust went out and ended up costing me $170 to fix. Amanda's cover to her air intake where the air filter lives cracked and needed to be replaced. That was an additional $50.
4. My home computer decided that it wanted to die on me. The first thing to go was the power supply. I turned the machine off on Friday night and it refused to come back on. I tested the power supply in both my and Amanda's machines, and it was the same ol' story: nothing. After I was able to get the power supply replaced, my hard drive started acting weird. Actually, I had noticed the weird behavior beginning about a week ago, so I backed up all of the data in case I needed to reformat. I'm glad that I did that, because I didn't loose anything of importance. I finally got everything backup and running roughly around 6PM on Saturday.
That's not everything that went wrong, but it's everything that I want to cover today.
~out...
Posted by ed at January 29, 2006 12:50 PM
Comments
Do you mean to tell me that you have no existing Linux-based storage server for just such an occasion? Ed, you're killing me!!!
As for the PS, I can imagine. I try to tell people how underappreciated the power supply in a computer is. I think it has one of the toughest jobs that the machine is responsible for. Common users have no idea what the power supply actually does, and as a result, they seem to think cheap is a-ok.
Glad to hear things are well otherwise.
Posted by: Troy Overton ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://edengelking.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 30, 2006 10:07 AM
It's not a matter of not having it as much as it is not being able to afford it at the moment. If I ever get myself a Mac, the desktop will become a Linux file server. :)
Posted by: eengelking at January 30, 2006 03:34 PM
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