It has been a few days since I posted.  Why?  That is an epic tale that will be con­densed for the sake of the reader.

Over the week­end, I got a 512M mem­ory card for my main desk­top, but it only picked up half of it.  The next day, I picked up two 256M cards, but it still only picked up 384M.  What­ever.  The desk­top has issues with mem­ory.  It has issues with the instal­la­tion of Cyg­win, which is deeply fuxored.

My lap­top spews out all sorts of “Drive Ready Seek­Com­plete Error” and “Uncor­rectable error” mes­sages.  Fux0red hard drive and/or con­troller (which is part of the moth­er­board).  The nifty thing about the lap­top is that I paid extra for the on-site next-business-day war­ranty.  (Nor­mally, I can­not stand extended ser­vice con­tracts, but I make a HUGE excep­tion for lap­tops and cell­phones, which seem to break eas­ily).  This means that they send a dude to my office and he fixes or swaps the lap­top.  Pretty keen, huh?  Yeah, it would be if Toshiba had record of it.  I have the paper­work, the bill, and the credit card state­ment.  They have no record.  Faxey-faxey-phone-tag.  Finally, I end up talk­ing with a tech guy who knows what's up.  Done deal, right?  Wrong.  The required com­po­nents are on back-order, but they are FedEx'ing them to the repair dude from some spe­cial ware­house, so it will be tomor­row or Fri­day.  Basi­cally, my lap­top is dead this week.  I am glad, how­ever, that I will have it at all.  No ser­vice con­tract would mean quite a while until Brian could get his com­puter fixed.

For those that were guess­ing about Brian C's ant farm, it was about 4 peo­ple (although some peo­ple sug­gested he take ants from their house on mul­ti­ple occassions).

Sea-Monkey sta­tus: The two females are huge and still have their egg sacks.  I am not sure whether or not any eggs came out of the sacks and I am not sure how long they are sup­posed to have those sacks, since there are now three babies.  The sacks have been there about two weeks and the babies have been there about a week.

“Tea tastes bet­ter when you drink it out of a monkey.”

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Tagged as: ants, laptop, seamonkeys, toshiba