State of the Bear

[mdlbear]

I've been very congested lately; have gone back to a daily Claritin. OTOH the cutting back the Flonase by 50% seems to have helped with phlegm in the throat, so that's good.

My mysterious hardware failure at work turns out to have been due to a loose (or possibly even mis-installed) RAM stick. Grump. It's also been plagued by a loose PCI card, but that's unlikely to manifest again until I drag it into the conference room and give a demo. Spent the afternoon on window manager configuration. So I am now back to approximately where I expected to be this time Friday.

I have not been getting nearly as much writing done as I would like. I have been getting more sleep than I would like, but less than I apparently need.

A shorter-than-usual walk, squeezed out between a longer-than-usual (but good) morning meeting, online bill-paying that should have been done last week, and an earlier-than-usual afternoon talk.

Comments

[brmj.livejournal.com]

Well, at least it was only a loose RAM chip, rather than something actually broken. As for the PCI card, if nothing else there is always electrical or duct tape. Kludgey in the extreme, I know, but it works. Of course, one of my boxes has a piece of cardboard for a side because I lost the cover, so maybe I am not the best source of advice on such things.

Interestingly enough, my sleep cycle has gotten weird recently, too. I have been going to bed around 1:30 and getting up at 7:00. Normally, I get to bed at 3:00 to 4:00 and sleep in as much as possible. There really isn't enough time in the day, you know?

[mdlbear]

I don't think duct tape would work; I've seen boxes--mostly rack-mount--with hold-downs to keep cards from vibrating loose. This isn't one of them, though it might be possible to retrofit something.

[brmj.livejournal.com]

Actually, you might be surprised about duct tape's effectiveness. You could put a thin strip of it along the border between the card and it's socket to at least delay it coming loose again.