Saturday - up in Martinez, doing various chores
at the old house. It's quiet and sad to be there alone. The gray and
cold weather doesn't help, though I relit the furnace to make the place
warm enough to work in.
Mostly I'm cleaning - the walls have 20+ years of tobacco stains.
Cleansers tested:
Joy
Windex
Scrubbing bubbles
Formula 409
TSP
TSP (which I thought stood for tri-sodium phosphate, but which claims
has "no phosphate's') wins the cleaning contest, hands down.
Friday
8 January
2010
Friday
- on the road, up to Martinez. Light posting until I'm back.
A shadow and his cat.
Thursday 7 January
2010
Thursday
- working.
Then on the road up to Lancaster. I need to head up to Martinez this
weekend, and am looking forward to a night in my own bed first.
Wednesday 6 January
2010
Wednesday
- working.
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Tuesday
- working.
Monday 4 January 2010
Monday
- back at work. On the home stretch data organizationally. Is that a
word? A couple more days.
Four Recent
Computer Support Successes & One Failure:
Got friends computer back onto home WiFi network (put WPA2
key back in)
Got friends other computer back onto home WiFi network
(Ethernet cable missing, used surplus D-link USB WiFi
key, put WPA2 key in)
Added USB splitter to an already overloaded Mac G4 used for
video editing
Backed up up a friends xv6800 PDA using PIM Backup
Could not diagnose over phone & talk
through router problems bedeviling someone in San Francisco
Sunday 3 January_2010
Sunday
- Filled a trash bin with stuff from the "computer room". I just ran
out of space in there, and decided to get hard hearted and toss those
Win98SE upgrade disks, and a bunch of stuff from even earlier.
You can now walk about in the room, rather than hopping from clear spot
to clear spot.
Also threw out a bunch of old paperback novels.
Saturday 2 January 2010
Saturday - a relaxing day. Hung out,
met up
with friends, did chores.
Friday
1 January
2010
Friday
- Happy New
Year!
Put in a full days work, then headed north to Lancaster. Not much
traffic, even on the 405.
