Posted by dminor Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:38:00 GMT
The TiBook went under the knife this morning. Hopefully the awful noises I’ve been having will now be gone forever.
As an added benefit, it appears that my battery is lasting longer than before.
Posted by dminor Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:33:00 GMT
Disclaimer: This is an email I received from a recently married family memeber. I’ll of course not change their names as we all know who they are anyway, and if you don’t know, it doesn’t matter if you know their first names.
Coming up on 10 years of marriage myself, I find this extremely refreshing to remember those young, foolish days of love, and I am encouraged to think that this would never happen in my house—now or then.
Dear all,
We thought you all might like to share in our first marriage disaster. It happened last night at about 11:00 while I was studying and Monica was in the bathroom trying to figure out how to fix our leaky faucet. She had quite enough and was tired of waiting for me to figure out how to fix it. I’m sure some of you have caught on to what is about to happen, I just wish I would have when I told her where the power screw driver was.
I was studying hard, not paying attention to the electric screwdriver making noise in the bathroom, when all the sudden I hear a scream from the bathroom accompanied by the sound of a large waterfall. So I got up from my slumber and what did I see…Monica trying to re-enact the Great Flood and covering up the hot water knob on the sink with water shooting straight up to the ceiling. “Ben, do something-it’s really hot,” she exclaims and leaves me with the burning hot water shooting through our roof. First dumb thing that comes into my mind-”How in the world do I turn this off?” So I pulled a towel off the rack and covered the hot water and it dawned on me that obviously the hot water shutoff is under the sink. I turned it off just as the electricity in the bathroom shut off because water had gotten into the outlet on our wall. The bathroom was completely soaked and all she could do is laugh and all I could do is act like I would have known to turn the water off before unscrewing the faucet.
Now for a few funny things: I was actually studying about the Flood for a test in archaeology when this all happened. Also, Monica had decided to experiment with the hot water faucet knob before fixing the cold water knob which was causing the problem. Funny thing is this-the cold water shut off knob under the sink does not work at all-it needs a new part because it is threaded. So, if Monica had worked on the cold water knob first like she should have, we would have never ever been able to shut it off!!
Sorry for the long story, but here are the morals of the story. Men: hide your power tools and lock them up, and for goodness sakes, take care of things before she tries to. Women: There are better ways to get your man’s attention, put the power tools down, we’ll fix it eventually.
Talk to you soon, Ben and Monica
I’m just impressed that he had a screwdriver!
Posted by dminor Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:02:00 GMT
After having Sprint PCS for 5 years and never really having a problem, I had to switch when we moved since I couldn’t take/receive calls on my Sprint phone.
So we switched to Cingular. It’s been OK. However, this weekend, we were completely without service for about 36 hours on the GSM network. Argh! Appears to be back now.
Posted by dminor Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:58:00 GMT
I’ve spent months with an intermittent noise coming from my TiBook. I have called AppleCare about it, taken it to the Apple Store on mulitple occasions. It simply wouldn’t make the noise while I was there.
Saturday morning, I took the train downtown and walked to the big Apple Store on Michigan. They first really blew me off. I sat at the genious bar taking up precious stool space on a busy weekend morning.
When I first arrived, I told the “genious” that the fan between the power button and right speaker was going out. He laughed at me and said there was no way sound could come from that space and that it was funny how people could hear sounds coming from places that couldn’t make noise. He wanted to take my machine and “check it in.” I laughed and muttered some stuff under my breath.
So when it started whining, I called over the other genious who had seemed like he would be more helpful. So the scoop is: There is a fan there. It is going bad. I still have my machine to work on until the part comes in. And genious’ aren’t always so bright.
Posted by dminor Sun, 28 Sep 2003 23:48:00 GMT
Not sure why, but I spent some time working on picky details of my blog this weekend. In case you are using my RSS feed, there is a 1.0 feed available now.
Also got XHTML to validate again since it was broken due to a plugin that I added some time ago.
Posted by dminor Sun, 14 Sep 2003 03:22:00 GMT
With my previous PowerBook, if I accidentally disengaged the battery while pulling it in or out of the carrying bag, I was in big trouble. Not only did I have to restart the machine, I had to while plugged in to the wall which was a problem in that I don’t always carry my power adapter.
Something I have noticed with my TiBook is that when the battery becomes disengaged, it doesn’t require plugging in to the wall to recover. Not only that, but it doesn’t crash either! Let me repeat that: removing the battery from the laptop while in sleep mode doesn’t crash the machine.
Now I’m not advocating that you should go removing the battery from your sleeping PowerBook to test this, but on a couple of occassions, my machine has woken from sleep after the battery goes flying across the room. Go Figure. Can your laptop do that?
Posted by dminor Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:05:00 GMT
I’m a night owl. I like being up late at night and sleeping until most people are at work. I struggled to get up on time for high school marching band. After my first semester at college, I refused to schedule a class before 9:00 a.m. Now that I have kids, I work after they go to bed. Life is good. er, Life was good.
My oldest started Kindergarten last week. To make matters worse, he demands to ride the bus. We have to leave the house at 7:15 to make the bus. That means 6:30 wakeup for old dad! Ugh! People who know me well will chuckle when they think of me going to bed at 10:00 p.m. to be able to make it out of bed at that time of the morning.
After a week, I’m feeling pretty good. I’m not sure how long that will last. I’ve tried reversing my schedule before. For now, I’ll just be consistent on my bedtime and hope for the best. Thank goodness for Diet Carbonated Caffeine in the morning!
Posted by dminor Wed, 27 Aug 2003 06:56:00 GMT
Sometime last year, I read an article on being effective and efficient. One of the suggestions was to adhere to a “one touch” system. Pick up a piece of paper or mail or whatever, look at it, then make a decision to trash it or file it. Finally, act on that decision. Basically, you never touch a piece of paper twice.
I have tried hard to follow this rule, and for the most part I succeed. Just now, I was glancing around my office seeing things that have been sitting there for weeks or months. I haven’t yet figured out what I am going to do with them. Then it occurred to me … the reason that they are still sitting there after all this time is that as long as I don’t touch them, I don’t have to do anything to them!
It’s so easy that way!
Posted by dminor Thu, 14 Aug 2003 06:42:00 GMT
My bluetooth woes are over for the most part. To test failure at the usb bluetooth adapter, I purchased another adapter tonight and it paired with my phone immediately!
Life is good for the moment, except that I now own two bluetooth adapters, but no more dialing phone numbers that should be in my phone already!
Now if only I could get a bluetooth headset to work like that…
Posted by dminor Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:00:00 GMT
Our last day to really do anything together. We met at The Musuem of Science & Industry one by bus, the other by train. This was a packed day. We tried hard to absorb as much of the museum as we could, but we probably only touched 60% of it! Very overwhelming! Time to resume normal life.
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