Applying another lesson learned….

If you remember last December we had an ice storm. Freezing rain. Sheet ice everywhere. Bus weren’t running at all. I worked that night. And I didn’t get home till noon (but I did, thanks to Uber).

So tonight, I woke up to cocaine on the ground (some of you may call it snow). And a winter weather advisory from AccuWeather. Slick roads and sidewalks tonight. I’m no fool. I learned my lesson last time. I’m calling out tonight.

Yes, I take the bus, and that can be the best thing to do in winter weather, but always treat Mother Nature with respect….

Let’s play a new game….

So, I woke up early tonight. Early enough that the Mexican place right around the corner was still open. After going back and forth too many times, I decided that it’s time for some arroz con pollo (after all, even if it wasn’t Tuesday today, it’s still Taco Tuesday somewhere in the Universe). It’s right the corner from my apartment. I don’t even have to cross Pacific Avenue to get there. But, it is my day off, and I’m not really particular about leaving the house. So, I ubered it. Driver picked it up, and I tracked it with the semi-realtime gps that the UberEats app provides. My partment complex has four driveways. And the driver went into each one before he figured where I’m at.

So I propose a new game for Las Vegas. It’s call Uber roullette. You place your UberEats order, then take bets on which driveway the driver will attempt first…

Bear in mind I did thank and tip the driver tonight. In the end he did get it to the apartment. I don’t order delivery that often anymore because it’s not cheap. But I do tip when I do….

Lessons learned today.

No matter how tempting it is, don’t upgrade your cpu cooler if your current one works. Actually I learned that one last November. Next one is that if you do decide to do something that stupid, look at the instructions first to see if you can install it.

So for Christmas, Dad gave us all gift cards to Spamazon. And this caught my eye. So I pulled the trigger. Actually installing the heat sink wasn’t the issue. And even the fan fit my ram. The problem came with plugging in the fan header. I ended up having to take the fan off, plugging in the header, and then reattaching it.

The real trouble came when I put the tower back to together. I thought I had properly seated my video card. So I plug everything back in and turn the computer on. I see lights. Good. It’s not in a boot loop. Good. I hear the Windows XP startup sound, but nothing on the monitor. Uh oh. So, it’s pull the tower back out, pop it open, and the video card wasn’t even seated in its slot at all. Fixed that, screwed everything down, and plugged everything in. And now it works.

Remember kids, if it works perfectly fine then think twice about upgrading….

BTW, I’ll have to repeat this next week. Also ordered a new hard drive. But the way my tower was designed, I won’t even need any tools to do it….

Render Unto Ceaser, 2023 Edition.

Just filed my taxes. And the IRS has accepted my return. I think the toughest part this year about my tax return was scanning my tax forms….

But I’m still getting a refund, apparently…