Sunday, January 25
Updates
Garfield, after spending the past week in Baltimore/Virginia for his grandfather's funeral has finally made it home. His dad's vehicle lost the right rear axle. Hmmmm. This was the same vehicle that The_Rose was in during a slight altercation. Related? Maybe. Should The_Rose be blamed? No! First, the accident was not her fault. Secondly, why didn't he get the damn thing checked out while waiting for the insurance stuff to be worked out. Getting an estimate on fixing it would have been fitting, and at the same time would have verified if the vehicle was ready for this kind of trip or not. Turns out, (it's a Kia) the manufacturer is covering it under their warranty, and may even end up fixing the bumper as well, under warranty! They took a rental car back home, so it's still up in Virginia. I guess they'll haul back up next week to retrieve it. I guess it took them about 30 hours to drive 8. Garfield said that they were stopping at every Wal*Mart (where his stepmother works at) and every discount outlet center. Didn't stop anywhere where Garfield wanted to stop at.
Garfield meanwhile, in his first night home, didn't even stay home. He was out all night. Doing what, I don't know. The_Rose is pissed about it. Me, I just wished he had said so from the beginning.
We interrupt this blog to bring you this breaking news...
Garfield has my car today. He just called. Either the alternator or the battery has gone bad. Sigh. I yelled at first, because I was pissed. Not neccessarily at him, but I was pissed. Alternator and battery replace at least 3 years ago, if not sooner.Garfield's luck with cars. I didn't know but I found out tonight that he was the one driving his dad's car when the axle fell off. Oh, and his dad had already been told by a relative that the rear axle was in trouble. So, his truck has had it's share of problems with him driving it. So has The_Roses, so has mine (the transmission also blew when he was driving it, but I already know that wasn't his fault, I could have prevented it by taking it to the shop when it first started acting up, and had a 25 cent part replaced...), his dad's car... Don't know of any others. I get his truck tomorrow. yeah. (yeah, I didn't captiize that for a reason...) I get to take his rear end to the recruiter's tomorrow for some sort of physical test of some such. Trouble is, I won't be able to use him to help me get the car and his truck to the mechanic's tomorrow. I guess I need to have a look and see if it's the battery first. I thought I replaced it a year ago, but who knows. Maybe two. And here in Florida, that may be as long as they last with the continuous hot weather here. It could be worse I guess, living in Miami, where it got up to 77 today. 73 here though. Ehh.
Pleasant things... Computer things... Maybe thats more pleasant...
I've spent most of this weekend defragging my computer. D, E, and F drives weren't too bad. C drive? I had 10% free, but the map SpeedDisk was showing was like 1%, if that. I finally got it done, tried to defrag the pagefile, (from 6 pieces to 3), then reran SpeedDisk, which then refragmented the pagefile to 6 pieces. Grrr. But it took a lot less time to do it. It's been over 8 months I bet since I last did a defrag. I haven't noticed any speed improvements. I haven't really benchmarked anything though.I think I'm about ready to rip out Office XP and reinstall from another (different) CD, or use Office 2003. I haven't made up my mind yet on that.
Other things
Got a call from Sebastian and Mike this week. I wished Mike a happy birthday, since his was going to be the 21st. Sebastian was telling me he was trying to get back on with the State, which would be a good thing for him. Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 1/25/2004 07:08:00 PM
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