Annoyances
2008-06-07 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearFor some reason, I have something tickling inside my right nostril. This is after two neti pots and my morning dose of flonase.
My main household workstation has been on its last legs for months. The fan is noisy, there's only one usable SATA port (one of the plastic pieces fell off and got lost), and something is terribly wrong with USB (it dies or simply disconnects in the middle of large file operations). It's merely annoying rather than urgent, so I keep putting it off. I'm waiting for Fry's to have a CPU/motherboard deal under $100 that I like. Dream on.
The Y.D.'s Window$ box is low on memory. Probably needs a nuke-and-pave, but more RAM wouldn't hurt anyway; I'm going to just add another stick and hope that fixes it enough to make her happy for a while.
The battery on Matrix, the 500MHz Thinkpad that I'm typing this into right now, is stone cold dead. Tripped over the power cord last night and it went down instantly. I am not buying a $100 battery for an ancient laptop with a dim, 800x600 display that's worth maybe $50. I'll find a use for it around the house in some fixed location where the cord won't be a problem.