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elenearielHi. I want a White Stripes album.
My grandmother has quit fixing grandpa food to eat, even when he asks her to. We finally noticed he's been living on ice cream and cookies for the past weeks, since it's about the only thing he can get for himself. I think that, and her increasingly hostile attitude towards him, is just her way of being in denial that he's getting weaker and weaker, but...honestly. Spend sixty years together, and when it comes to the end you get all angry and neglectful? Poor grandpa just sits around looking like a wounded puppy all the time.
(Don't worry, now that we've realized, we're taking care of feeding him. No matter how angry grandma gets, which is VERY.)
The house-hunting bug has bitten me bad. I want a teeny tiny brick house with a teeny tiny yard. And teeny tiny rooms I can fill with books, and invite people over to sit on big pillows on the floor because I haven't enough chairs. It would be a great big Wonderful. I have no intention of moving out just yet, but I think that's my goal to seriously work and plan towards. It's very, very possible. The town I work in is fully of teeny tiny brick houses just as I described. I could be within walking distance from church and the park, and three minutes away from work and most stores. And the coffee shop! And a mere seven minutes from Wal-Mart, which is the important thing.
The boys have colds. I'm almost wanting to catch it so I can take some sick days.
Can someone tell me - is it easy to disconnect a CD drive in a desktop computer? How would I do that? We have one at work where the drive is constantly trying to open and shut and generally not working. I'd like to just fix the problem if I could.
My grandmother has quit fixing grandpa food to eat, even when he asks her to. We finally noticed he's been living on ice cream and cookies for the past weeks, since it's about the only thing he can get for himself. I think that, and her increasingly hostile attitude towards him, is just her way of being in denial that he's getting weaker and weaker, but...honestly. Spend sixty years together, and when it comes to the end you get all angry and neglectful? Poor grandpa just sits around looking like a wounded puppy all the time.
(Don't worry, now that we've realized, we're taking care of feeding him. No matter how angry grandma gets, which is VERY.)
The house-hunting bug has bitten me bad. I want a teeny tiny brick house with a teeny tiny yard. And teeny tiny rooms I can fill with books, and invite people over to sit on big pillows on the floor because I haven't enough chairs. It would be a great big Wonderful. I have no intention of moving out just yet, but I think that's my goal to seriously work and plan towards. It's very, very possible. The town I work in is fully of teeny tiny brick houses just as I described. I could be within walking distance from church and the park, and three minutes away from work and most stores. And the coffee shop! And a mere seven minutes from Wal-Mart, which is the important thing.
The boys have colds. I'm almost wanting to catch it so I can take some sick days.
Can someone tell me - is it easy to disconnect a CD drive in a desktop computer? How would I do that? We have one at work where the drive is constantly trying to open and shut and generally not working. I'd like to just fix the problem if I could.
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Date: 2006-09-12 04:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-14 03:10 am (UTC)*ponders*
I think I was just insulted?
But you're right, once I figured out how to get the side panel off, it was painfully easy to disconnect.
cd drives
Date: 2006-09-12 04:21 am (UTC)Re: cd drives
Date: 2006-09-12 12:20 pm (UTC)And I love love love that icon. Brilliant!
Re: cd drives
Date: 2006-09-12 02:37 pm (UTC)"I can tell that we are going to be friends..."
Date: 2006-09-12 04:25 am (UTC)Yeah, it's pretty easy to disconnect a CD-Rom drive. If you open up your computer case, you'll see two, possibly three, cables connected to the CD-Rom drive. Unplug those. Then take a screwdriver and unscrew the bolts holding the CD-Rom drive in place. Then all you have to do is slide it out. (Or at least that's how it is on most PCs).
I like some of the White Stripes music too. :-) My favorite song is probably the one from Napolean Dynamite. =D
Re: "I can tell that we are going to be friends..."
Date: 2006-09-12 12:24 pm (UTC)I like "My Doorbell". =) It's the perfect song to walk to, it's so bouncy and energizing.
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Date: 2006-09-12 04:44 am (UTC)Last weekend, my E: and F: drives (for DVD and CD) died at different times in one day, requiring two disassembling processes. Of course, they both contained disks, so I was very anxious to get them apart and functioning again. Twice I had to completely disassemble the tower and disk drives, remove disks, reassemble drives and find out what was wrong (E: drive is kaput; the other was just on the fritz), reassemble tower, plug everything back in, start it up and make sure everything was again in working order. Did I mention twice?
This was at least a great opportunity to dust the computer innards.
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Date: 2006-09-12 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 02:26 pm (UTC)Heh. I would love a little house like you described... plenty of bookshelves, a cozy chair, a convenient kitchen with enough room to cook or bake for fun, a tea kettle & good tea... sounds delightful!
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Date: 2006-09-14 03:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-13 03:54 am (UTC)Ah, yes, how nice it would be to be in walking distance of everything. That would make for one less technology to maintain.
In your profile you say that you wrote a novel in thirty days... and that there's a novel month? That's pretty impressive! I'm (very) slowly writing a story, but it seems pretty overwhelming... well, not overwhelming- it does seem very possible, but just very taxing, I suppose. Well, have a good day! God bless!
-jake
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Date: 2006-09-13 12:29 pm (UTC)November is National Novel Writing Month, and NaNoWriMo.org challenges people to write 50,000 words during the month. (That makes a novel, albeit a short one.) So last year I did. It took about an hour or two every day, which I could mostly squeeze in during my lunch break and before bed. It was really a lot of fun. I've started a number of novels before, but I slack off pretty quickly unless I have a reason and a deadline. All I really needed was to have to write every single day.
Now they need a National Editing Month, because it's almost a year later and I still haven't done that part. ; )
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Date: 2006-09-13 09:08 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm looking at the icon now- you won the contest too?
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Date: 2006-09-14 03:04 am (UTC)Yeah, I really need to get back to editing it - I want to get it all finished up and get one single copy printed for myself at lulu.com, just for kicks.
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Date: 2006-09-14 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-14 12:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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