Author: djuggler

Has anyone else ever experienced cntl-c failing to copy into the buffer?! Mind you, this wierdness must be in my hand. My first thought “the key is sticking.” However, I then go to a friend’s house and experience it on his machine to have him turn around and make cntl-c work with no problem! This is terribly frustrating because when it does happen, I carefully press the cntl key then the c key making sure that the key presses are true and still, the clipboard holds old information!

btw, cntl-v never fails and right-click copy always works

A New Day!

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This Morning

I failed. Not only did I not get up. I over slept! Time to take the 7 yr old to school. Letting the 10 yr old sleep in as we suspect she is still not well.

Think I’ll grab a couple more hours of sleep then try to get motivated to do something.

Had a wonderful time this evening. We web cam’ed our conversation with our friends in Australia. The kids got completely worked up over it and are ready to run to school tomorrow to tell all their friends. It was quite fun!

Worked all afternoon moving the wife’s computer upstairs so now she’s so pissed at me that she won’t speak to me. As is typical, I’m left feeling like crap and guessing what it is that I’ve done wrong this time.

Wife’s computer now dust free. Reassembly beginning.

Back from meeting. Talked to much. Good reminder of how to handle and not handle myself in sales calls.

Car acting up. I fear the transmission is looking to die. Not a good thing when the bank account is running dry.

Spent most of the day working cleaning the wife‘s computer. Now its time to head out to a meeting. I feel unprepared..more nervous that anything else. There is too much riding on these kinds of meetings for my confidence to not be a little shaken.

So much time.. So little to do!

Blast! Someone buy me a digital switch box please! I share 4 computers between 1 monitor, keyboard and mouse. This analog switch box doesn’t support the usb mouse and frequently drops the keyboard and mouse when changing machines causing me to do a hard reboot.

I love watching the wife and kids play store. It amazes me that they value it so much. My wife keeps a checkbook for each child and as they do chores or other things that earn them “money” they can use it to buy things from “the store.” This is a cache of trinkets and items that my wonderful wife has bought or collected for the kids. Sometimes she puts specific things in there for a certain child knowing he or she will end up with it. To watch from a far, the wife picks a task to do while the kids take a half an hour or so to finger through the goodies. They diligently add and subtract making painful decisions between this and that. It could be “do I want the hair pin or the pencil?” “If I buy the matchbox car I won’t have enough left to buy the pad of paper.” Every couple of minutes one of the children looks up and says “how much is this?” and the wife without batting and eye or getting distracted throws out a figure so matter of factly you’d think she had been part of the manufacturing process. What’s more, she remembers every price she says so when the child challenges “how much was this again?” the same price immediate spits out! Logically I wouldn’t think the incentives outweight the efforts for the kids because many of the treasures are things they could have simply by asking or receive regularly anyway. I love the kids! I love my wife!

I borrowed some video training tapes from the American Red Cross before Christmas. Every week since the staff person’s voice booms in my head “please try to look at these are return them this week. If you don’t do it in a week, you won’t do it at all.” I don’t even know where the tapes and paperwork are.

This is the kind of thing that makes it hard for my mind to focus. I have thousands of undone little things. Ugh!

Pulled the case out to find that it has so much dust in it that the extra nic card just sitting on the bottom of the case isn’t visible at all. Perhaps this is a contributing factor to some of this machine’s problems. And perhaps the paper clip lying across one of the boards.

Next step: thoroughly clean this case with no static discharges (in this dry humid house)!

Network cable now run through the floor to the hubs and switches.

Next problem: power. I have lots of power supplies boxed up in either the garage or the bedroom. I may even have one under my desk somewhere. The ones under my feet are a rats nest of shared power; the unspoken implication of course being that all computers will have to be shutdown for this move and then some devices may be left without power. Wife’s computer will need a power strip, preferrably a decent surge protector and beyond budget, a nice UPS. Hmm. I wonder if the old UPS removed during the “short hunt” awhile back works? Alright. That will give me a reason to remove the cobs webs. First I need to download all pictures from the Compact Flash cards because I want to photo document the office clean up and the computer move. Meeting in 2.5 hours.

Follow the trail of bouncing digressions…

Upcoming problems. What to do with her printer? Possible solutions: 1) move it with the computer, 2) hook it up to a different computer for networked printing.

I’d really like to build an addition to the house right now.

I also like having my wife near me and this is going to separate us; however, it could be a nice transition for me moving into an office job.