What a day

Yesterday was a lost day and I am trying to catch up. One of the fans in my computer has been breaking over the last few weeks. yesterday it went bonkers and was driving me crazy - which these days is really a short putt [work related]. but the noise was unbearable. I suspect it's one of the noises they use to torture prisoners at Guantanamo. anyway, I whined until John gave in and decided to fix it for me. Of course, Murphy's law kicked in and the local store in FH didn't have the part and then the computer store in Scottsdale didn't have the part but they recommended the store in Tempe. So off John went with the old fan to see if he could find a match. that meant I had no computer of course.

he came back over an hour later with a part that "might" fit. it didn't. but John being the electrical engineer [he really has a degree in electrical engineering, among others] decided he could "make it fit". that took over an hour. so then we booted up. the computer decided it didn't like someone messing with its innards so it decided to run check disk. that took 20 minutes. then everything came back - or did it? nope, the second monitor wouldn't come on. I played with it. I rebooted. I went into the software cave and looked around. nothing. so I called my computer guru Gus. he had no idea what it was but suspected something went awry when John put the new fan in because it was the video fan. I didn't even know the video card had its own fan. so he told me to reload the software for the video card and see if that worked. if not he would come out tomorrow. so I rummaged around and lo and behold I actually found the software disc. I figured I'd better restart the computer before loading the disk so I rebooted. GUESS WHAT! - both monitors were now working. I have no idea why but I'm not going to question it. But, as you probably already guessed, yesterday was all shot to heck in a handbasket. I had a splitting headache.

So I called it quits for the day.

Figured I'd go to bed early.

But then I started reading Homer's Odyssey [the story of a blind cat] and couldn't put it down. It's an excellent book. I recommend it.

Stayed up until 4 AM with that book.

And the boys woke me up at 7:30 this morning.

The coffee needs to kick in very soon.