Psychotomy

So. Missed posting yesterday. But I have a good reason:

I fell asleep with DK at 8:30-9pm and apparently wouldn’t wake when kiir tried to prompt me up. bolted upright out of the bed ~11ish because I had a dream where DK was falling down the steps (again ; actually, seriously? you’d think that wouldn’t be a race for the baby situation after the third or fourth time, yaknow?) (but it is)

Decided that I didn’t really feel like getting up and doing anything. Because, lets face it, 11-12 is when I usually go to bed anyway. and if I fully got up, I wasn’t going back down until 3 or something ridiculous like that.

This morning I was almost to the train when kiir called me feeling nauseous, so I turned around and watched DK for the day. Did work while he watched tigger & pooh and word world. In the morning I took him out for a walk with K before gymboree. DK and I were all set and ready for gym, so I figured no worries about taking K for his morning walk. Except when we got to the lake (10 minutes) it started POURING DOWN RAIN. So I ended up running back from the lake. OMG! I’m not really “in shape”, per se, jaknow? ow! Of course, then I had to change everything but his diaper before we could go back out for gymboree (by which time the rain had totally stopped again ; go figure)

Rained for most of the day while I did work, though, so at least I wasn’t out in it again :o

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Quicken Spare Change Challenge

Yeah, the questions are rather poorly formed. “do you brew your own coffee or go to specialty shops?” uh, none? “do you buy top shelf or bottom shelf alchohol?” uh, top shelf, but I’ve had the same 3 bottles of vodka for 5 years, so yeah.

Bonus feature, it seems to minimize at 1$ a week “waste” … Which means taht the 368 is vastly over-reported. The only one I zero’d was education. And since I’m not IN school, I would think that would zero well. But transportation? “Do you have excess weight?” no? not more than a pound or so in empty soda cans and such. “Are you tires well pressurized” always seem to be “do you take public transportaiton?” yes … where was the waste listing??? :o

But, still, kindof interesting. The big losses are food (because we don’t comparison shop ; there’s a limit to the comparison shopping benefit for fresh fruit at 4$/ga of gas ; we buy them at the grocery by the house b/c it’s close) and energy (which wasn’t listed for some reason as a breakout) since we leave the computers on. I mean, her two, my desktop and the server. that’s gotta burn a fair amount of power :o And the X is on probably 8 hours a day, but not always in use.

The questions are enlightening, to some, in terms of areas to look at. The results are suspect, however

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So,

Yesterday morning the train ended up stopped in the middle of nowhere in particular for half an hour, then crawled around for a bit backwards then forwards.

Turns out, from what the conductor said, someone “lost a body. They want us to stop while they look for it”

Turns out, after I got to work and looked online and talked to kiir, They Found a Body … go figure. That really WAS what the man said.

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So, the problem with the mac? Turns out the contacts on the power connector were corroded. Rusted, kindof.

Kiir suggested that I look it up online and see if I could get an appointment with the “Genius Bar” at the Apple Store from online, that way we only had to go when we were actually going to talk to someone (we being me, and then Kiir and DK if he was up from nap ; we figured they could go down to the play area if I was waiting long)

Turns out that, at 11AM, the only appointment for that day it was showing was at 3:20. Damn am I glad I didn’t go over then. Especially glad since I would have been going over at like 2 or something otherwise. When we got there at 3, they were saying they were flat out of appointments for that day, and someone was ending up with an 8pm TOMORROW night as the next available. :o

Got there ~3:10ish, Kiir took DK to the Disney Store to look around while I waited, came back just as they called me to say “so, what seems to be the issue?” I explained that it wasn’t charging, that it had had some issues for a while, but the no-charge thing was new since Friday. Because, lets face it, if it won’t charge or run off the adapter, I can’t use it. Gonna be hard to develop new symptoms ;)

He started to look at the bits, and saw the end of the power adapter and immediately said “ah, this is probably it. This is awfully corroded. Did this get wet or something?” And I pointed at DK and said “It’s possible someone may have been sucking on it or chewing on it yeah”

He plugged in with their adapter , worked fine. Booted up to check that it was registering the charge etc. Looked it up in the computer , and apparently my AppleCare was never activated. When I purchased the laptop and the plan, they told me I didn’t need to activate it, they’d done it all for me. The box for the applecare was policy and contained the information about what it covered/etc. Apparently that was incorrect. Apparently I was supposed to activate it. He looked it up in the computer to check it’s warranty/etc, and could find that I bought an applecare when I bought the laptop, but that the laptop had new registered applecare. Ooops :o I’m almost positive that I no longer have that “worthless box”, but he suggested that, if I can find the receipt, I can call the support line and ask them to activate it for me, so I’d get the third year of service & support.

Mind you, infants chewing on the power adaptor connector isn’t covered by standard warranty or the extended care applecare policy. But he was a cool guy. Decided that, given that we didn’t waste his time or insult his intelligence by trying to snow him, and we came right out and TOLD him “yeah, it was probably the infant sucking and chewing on it, in that case”, he went ahead and marked it as warranty replacement so I didn’t have to pay the 80$ for the part. YAY! I wasn’t looking forward to paying, but I was totally ready to do so since this is really NOT “normal wear and tear” (irregardless of how many people with infants might actually encounter a similiar problem, it’s still not the ‘normal’ usage :o)

So he was cool, it was all good. Thanks man!

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So, my Macbook has decided to quit charging. I don’t know if its the charger or the battery, offhand. I’ve read some stuff that suggests that the chargers have a melting issue (that’s a hell of an issue, boys and girls!)

Mine doesn’t appear to be melted, but it also spends a bunch of time sitting on top of the A/C vent, so it’s possible that it fried internally without getting hot enough externallly to do real damage to itself.

Or my battery toasted itself. Or the PSU on the system itself ate it’s brains. Hard to say, really. I’ve had little flicker-y issues for a while, where the screen will dim partyway, like it’s off the charger, but while still on the charger. And the last couple months, getting the magsafe charger to connect properly and have it’s little charging light kick on has been a smidge on the lucky spectrum. We’ll see if I can’t get it fixed. If not fixed, diagnosed and cheap would be nice (because I don’t want to throw a bunch of money at it, but I do kindof like having my apple. I can use the windows laptop, but I’m used to using the mac, honestly)

Figure maybe monday I’ll run over to the apple store at the mall and see what they can tell me. wheeee

Addendum: Ugh. The pc laptop has this really huge ass area at the bottom to allow for the trackpad and the inch-tall mouse buttons … and it is seriously digging into my lower arms when i try to do anything on this thing! grrr, arg!

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So, yeah. We did some more toying around.

Kiir’s new blog is now at www.milefrommainstream.net, with it’s new name (and the new look that is on the old blog because she was doing that when I set up the new install :o)

The Kitchen Dragons site has moved to kitchen.psychotomy.net. We decided that we simply weren’t using it anywhere near enough to justify it’s own domain, so now when it comes up for renewal I can let it pass peacefully :o I may also end up expanding the site to include crafts, or we might set up a new site for the various asides we have. Not sure, since it’s not like I keep up with the three I have now, OTOH random posts about woodburning or scrapbooking or sewing or what-have-you would kindof clutter up this blog, clash with the kitchens, and just doesn’t go with the tech-centric deadbeef site. But, then again, I haven’t actually done any sewing in … years? And the woodburning hasn’t yet gone past proof of concept, so HEY!~ whatever

0xDEADBEEF (deadbeef.psychotomy.net) has a new look, again. And I seriously do intend to work on things there. Eventually. No really. Like posts.

For a few weeks there I was doing good with a post here every day, and I think that worked OK. Fell out of the habit, however, and it’s hard to get back into it. Especially since things at the office picked up and I’m loaded with work these days.

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This week has been upating the blogs and the looks and everything.

For instance, I put a theme on mine ! Working on prettying up Kitchen Dragons, and maybe even posting on it more. Although with only me and DK eating most nights, there hasn’t been that much recipe toying.

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So Kiir decided that “Math Freak” just didn’t fit her blog anymore. What with there not having been a math-related post in about 2 years or something. Unless you count the counting which week pregnant she is or how old DK is … Which isn’t really freakishly math-y :o

So she’s picked the new name “A Mile From Mainstream”. I think it’s catchy ;) Read her post about it

She’s still working out what the new URL should be. Because www.amilefrommainstream.net seems excessively long :o

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Oi. So I was going to blog some this afternoon, but I spent the whole time working.

And by “whole time” I mean all 2 hours of DK’s nap. Which is shorter than his usual 3-4hrs when I’m not home. Oi.

So maybe I’ll blog later :o

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So, still working on all this cleaning …

Eight bags of trash out on Wednesday. 4 bags of recyc sunday night.

Today I went to the dump again. Took three big boxes of electronics (including most of those harddrives from last week). An old desk chair. The Sun boxes & monitor that I’ve had since like 03 and never touched more than moving it from one storage region to another.

In the last week I’ve cleaned the living room to its core. And then cluttered it up again with bits from other cleaning. I cleaned the bedroom mostly and vac’d it. The basement is largely cleared. The kitchen is partially done.

Kitchen & Hallways are the priority for tomorrow. So tired of cleaning. Kiir told me to take the evening off. But I’m not sure it’s gonna be ‘done’ before they get back :/

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