Ok. First the heat pump (if you don’t want to count the array of problems with the vehicles, the computers, couch, dental work and other things that predecessed the heat pump) and now the Garbage Disposal – In-Sink-Erator 444 (amz) (and yes, that’s the exact same one we have!) It’s been a good unit. And it has an “in-house 4 year warantee” which I guess I now get to figure what that means. The motor now just hums and yes I checked to make sure the blades were not jammed. It also looks like we have some leakage out the bottom now. I have to assume that a seal has broken or that a utensil dropped in the disposal punctured something. I don’t know. But this moves up pretty high on the priority list.
Year: 2004
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This Morning
This morning it would be real easy to slip into panic mode. As such, I made a point to not have coffee today. I can’t say enough how much calmer I am on drastically reduced caffeine intake. I still have an overwhelming urge to do things today that I should not.
Today is about computing. Somehow cleaning, finances, blogging, home repair, vehicle maintenance and programming need to work their way in.
Today’s Technical Issue
“String DLGASKDESTTS_MSG1 was not found in the string table.”
The solution is provide in a comment on Uninteresting.info by Gianluca Neri of http://www.gnueconomy.net:
Here’s what I’ve just found using Google Groups (God Bless Google):
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The “String DLGASKDESTTS_MSG1…” error message that you received may have been caused by other running applications when you launched the Install Wizard. I suggest that when you install,
close all other applications including any applications that are running in the background. If you have an anti-virus installed in your system, temporarily disable this while doing the installation.As an additional safeguard that will minimize the chance of having those error messages again, I also suggest you follow these instructions:
1. Please delete the Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Engine
folder
2. Clear out the Temp folder
3. Delete the following folders (IF they exist):
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{b8d35119-e9ce-4258-9813-9715dacdca0a}
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{a4d64993-5175-4534-8583-355f925644d4}
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{53437f29-e703-11d4-a51f-0010b541cdae}
\Program Files\InstallShield Installation
Information\{94492602-f802-48fa-a5ab-ac13dc358475}
Note: Please make sure you can view hidden files and folders before
trying those steps
Uninteresting.info has this to say about his stats and this error.
Last night was Incredible!
Without giving anything away, I have to say that “The Incredibles” (trailers) was incredible!
There were many incredible aspects of this movie. It began with the previews. Your normal movie has that series of slide advertisements with the trivia mingled in, then there are hopefully several movie previews.
This show started off with what appeared to be a teaser more than a movie preview. Then there was an encouragement to turn off cell phones and use good manners. Then there was another teaser. We started to get the picture that an animated picture called “Bigs” (Bigfoot) is in the works. Then there was a movie preview for “National Treasure” (some production pictures) Then more appearances by the Bigs cast. Our comment, “they must have a lot of money.” Then we enjoyed a Pixar animated short (welcome back old time days of movies!) titled Boundin’ (See a sneak peek.). It slowly became evident that Bigs is actually a Regal production (I could be wrong) and likely to be a series of short films that they are going to show before the movies instead of advertisement! We had no traditional ads! There were two product refences. When we were told about concessions Coke was mentioned and when the reminder to silence cell phones came up Cingular was mentioned.
The movie was action packed, had a wonderful plot, great subtly, fantastic balance of adult and child humor, and exceptional animation. I highly recommend seeing “The Incredibles” and suggest Fandango. They were turning people away at the counter but because we Fandango’d we had tickets and a compliment from the person behind the counter.
(picture unrelated to the movie but er, .. incredible)
From the Mouths of Babes
Amy is drinking water this morning so I thought I would add another Amy Sings the Alphabet at 2 and half
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This Morning
Busy day ahead. My wife is in training all day long, Tommy is grounded (meaning everything is a fight), Sarah was throwing up at 4:30am (but “is feeling much better!”) – no fever, Noah is the quintessential 8 year old boy, the grandparents are occupied, we’ve got dog school at 2pm, and after my wife’s training I have a mock casino to deal craps. Sarah was to be my babysitter for dog school but now I think she is going to be confined to quarters which leaves me with Tommy and Noah to watch the 2 year old during dog school. Granted, they would be in a field within my eyesight the whole time but I don’t like that plan.
I’m setting my wife’s computer up as a development environment. That way I can be upstairs and still be productive. We need a couple of rockin’ laptops like fish need water!
Ironies – Life so full of them!
I know I haven’t written part II to “I had my day! No I get 30 more.” but this has to come first. Thursday night we hadour den meeting. The plan was to have the boys do a craft, an activity, and a discussion. The scheduled discussion was with a police officer and who shows up but none other than the rookie right out of cadet school that gave me the ticket for the midnight slow and go (which I fully stopped for) through an insignificant stop sign.
My initial desired responses to his presence were all evil, inappropriate and definitely a bad example for the kids with at least one potentially landing me in jail. So, I did the right thing and sucked it up and helped him figure out what to say to the kids then introduced him.
Related posts:
My Day in Court Part I
Paranoid
The Story
The day of the ticket
amped in a bad way today.
amped in a bad way today.
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This Morning
Last night was lovely! Exceptional! I opted to not fret and worry and instead gave the wife a relaxing massage and conversation. This morning I fret and worry.
So Thirsty
I wanted to buy some scotch on the way home from scouts but somehow didn’t think that a scout leader in uniform should be walking into a liquor store.
I’ve majorly cut down on my caffiene intake (thanks to herbal teas) so maybe this is just a sign to continue health habits.
Walls closing in
In 30 minutes I am supposed to be setting up to receive 24 8 year old boys that will begin arriving in as little as 45 minutes. I am not familiar enough with the procedures of the group and have nothing prepared. I need 1 hour to buy supplies and the hardware store around the corner is now closed. I also cannot leave the house. I almost stopped at Home Depot on the way home but didn’t want to lug my dog pee smelling briefcase, calendar and bag of scout paperwork into the store and didn’t want to leave it unguarded in the Jeep. I had two weeks to prepare for this. Now I have half an hour.
Sums me up pretty good.
ps. in this same 30 minutes I have to prepare dinner for the family and we have no food in the house.
Quote of the Day
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.
– — Emerso
Molly at 6mths old – Good Posture
Hey! Could you stop with the camera already. You’re blocking my view of the tube!
Animals? Of course we don’t let animals on the couch. Only us humans!
Gas prices to go up uP UP and AWAY!
Tim of Spy Journal fame originally introduced me to the concept of “Peak Oil“. Kurzweil brings us more.
