Can someone tell me WHAT THE BLOODY HELL was going on with I90 this morning? Traffic was at a stand-still from Highway 41 in Post Falls all the way to the NW Blvd exit in Cd'A—which was blocked off! Note, the next exit is already closed, so who's brilliant mind was behind this move? If I treated my job the way these people do I wouldn't be working, that's all I have to say.
Last week my boss had a problem with the docking port in his laptop. When I connected it to another docking station, we got the same results and quickly concluded that the problem was the laptop itself and not the docking station. So we called Dell and got a technician on the line. Now, unlike most times, I got a good tech right off, and he quickly realized I was a technical person and in under 3 minutes had concluded the same thing I had—a bad motherboard. He set us up with a replacement and a technician to come out and replace it. This all happened on Friday.
Today when he got in, his docking station wasn't working. Fearing that the station he has at home was somehow frying the port on the laptop's motherboard, I ran down to his office with the docking station I have to test it out. I saw all the cables unplugged, and thought he did that in anticipation of me bringing the other station down. Fortunately, that was not the case. We'd never reconnected the power to his docking station after testing it last week.
Today's tech support troubleshooting lesson: Even if it sounds stupid, ask if it's plugged in first.
- Home Internet connection is down. It's either my router or the DSL modem, no idea which yet. #
- Chocolate bread. http://yfrog.com/0ip44kj #
- Second batch of bread bowls is rising now. On track for dinner tonight #
- Internet connection is finally back up. Downtime wasn't my fault, it was the DSL modem #
- Another busy day at work #
- Hello Fail Whale. Haven't seen you in a while... #
- The dust bunnies are attacking! http://yfrog.com/0phdzj #
- Lorien's getting her wisdom tooth (yes, singular, she only has one!) pulled today at 3 #
- It's #munchkin time! At work! Well, lunch anyway. #
- I think Oddjob was the best Bond villain sidekick ever. #
- Just lost power at home momentarily. TiVo reset. #
- Holy cow! Tomorrow's low temp is 19! It's too soon! #
- Throwing a new Intel core i7 machine together. Video card is too long for the case
# - Was going to do an interview today for a new employee. He accepted a different offer and canceled at the last minute. #
- Boss walked in my office while I had a hacksaw in my hand. Told him I was partitioning a new hard drive... #
- One angle grinder later, the computer case is no longer refusing my new video card. Bonus: my office smells like an auto shop. #
- WOAH! Windows 7 doesn't need a floppy disk to load SATA/HDD drivers. It can take a CD!! This is progress!!! #
- Waiting for Dell certified technician to replace motherboard in a laptop that went TU. Been waiting 2 days. #
- Laptop's docking port is now working again. Glad it was covered by the extended warranty I got (the only one I've ever purchased...) #
- Default Windows 7 Ultimate installation uses 19.2Gb of drive space. I've died and gone to bloatware heaven. #
- Haha, and Solitaire is prominently displayed on the start menu. Nice going Microsoft. At least you know what it's good for... #windows7 #
- Thinking about a new car stereo and I'm not sure if I can go CD-less (just USB and iPhone). I do like the USB option, though.. #
- Just bought a frame and some orange paper to decorate our new watercolor from @Tavisha #
Today is my old buddy Manu's birthday (well, the 10th, but he's from New Zealand, and it's the 10th over there). Happy birthday brother.
- Finished off the cilantro and lime chicken fajitas. They were awesome on day three as well as day one. #
- Have a small issue with an order I received from Warehouse 23 (@sjgames). I emailed them about it and am sure it'll be fixed just fine. #
- Meh. The motorcycle weenies are out in the empty lot behind my house again. Holding back the urge to seed the lot with nails... #
- Wow. Compiling with Intel's compiler yields more warnings with -Wall than GNU GCC. This is a good thing. @IntelSoftware #
- My #MUD is compiling with the #Intel compiler (icpc). It was a lot of work fixing new warnings, but the code is better off now. #
- My order issue at Warehouse 23 was fixed before I even woke up! Way to go @sjgames! #
- Got a text at 6:40 about some credit card processing issue on our website. Don't think there's anything I can do. For once, it's SEP #
- SEP = Somebody Else's Problem #
- Typed "post-mortem" in a text message and it got corrected to "post-mitten". Stupid iPhone #
- Dental checkup went fine. No teeth problems. #
- End of day nightmare: SCSI drive goes bad, no replacement on hand. Fortunately it's RAID-5'd so I have a little bit of time to get a spare #
- Latest prescription bottle has a pink top with a save-the-booby ribbon on it. #
- Fetching Ubuntu kernel sources so I can install Intel vtune. Or attempt it, anyway. Technically it's not supported. #
- Well hello there frost. Long time no see! #
- So drooling over @QMxInsider's Serenity Replica. Not sure how to convince the wife how much I need it...
# - Making "old dough" for my new sourdough project. It will be older next time I use it... #
- Dreamt I was playing #munchkin with @CarbonLeaf last night. It was awesome. And I don't even know if they play. Guy with all the hair won. #
- Outback Steakhouse isn't open for lunch?? Has this always been true? #
- New sourdough: 3.5 days starter, 3.5 hour "old dough, 2 hours rising, 1.5 hours proofing, 1 hour baking. So..much..time.. #
- Sourdough is proofing. 1.5 hours to go, then I can bake it! #
- Rio won't host the 2016 Olympics. The world will end in 2012. Everybody knows that... #
- CDAPress.com has to be one of the ugliest sites on the 'net. Way to FAIL guys. #
- Played #munchkin fairy dust tonight. Used Fairy Fortune to get more loot, then used Sylph Preservation to get FF back and then used it again #
- At work. On Saturday. Shouldn't take too long though. #
- Bread day! Making bread bowls with a test recipe, and a chocolate bread for the first time as well. Fun times! #
- Sprinkled the bread bowls with garlic and oregano, the smell is INCREDIBLE #
- The chocolate bread was SO incredible I'm making another loaf, with some orange flavor thrown in #
Today I'm trying out two new bread recipes today. One is specifically for making bread bowls, and the other is a dark chocolate bread. My new sourdough starter isn't very sour yet, it's only a week old. First loaf made with it didn't taste sour at all. Maybe I'll make another loaf tonight and see how it goes.