About Yesterday
Get home to find out that while the Mrs. was balancing the checkbook, the computer caught on fire. I assessed the problem as a faulty power supply. Went out and bought a new power supply. Hooked it up, turned it on and the motherboard caught fire.
Said to Hell with fixing it. Went to Office Depot and bought a new laptop and a WiFi router. I’m blogging from the patio while enjoying an adult beverage.
May 1st, 2004 at 8:44 pm
Don’t you love it when a plan comes together!
May 1st, 2004 at 10:33 pm
I want to know how you rigged up the computer to catch fire twice so your wife would let go out and buy all the cool stuff.
Welcome to the 21st century.
May 1st, 2004 at 10:46 pm
I’m jealous. There’ve plenty of sunny days here where I’ve wished I had a laptop machine to take outside and enjoy the nice weather while surfing/blogging.
Alas, new toys will have to wait for gainful employment.
BTW, I’m hoping to borrow a digicam and do a few gun pics — capital idea!
May 2nd, 2004 at 10:58 am
Holy cow…hope you were able to recover your data.
May 2nd, 2004 at 11:05 am
Yeah, me too. I got some client files on that PC. I need to plug the HD into another puter and see if I can pull the files onto a CD or something.
May 2nd, 2004 at 3:36 pm
Congrats on the new setup.
Now go read http://www.arstechnica.com/paedia/w/wireless/security-1.html
and implement at least the basic security controls.
June 3rd, 2004 at 4:02 pm
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