Daily Archives: January 20, 2014
Another Oldie, But Goodie . . .
I was up a little early this morning since I had clients to see, but I still had time for coffee, muffins, and sitting outside with Jan and Mister for a while. Then it was off to work.
My first stop was up in Pasadena for another one of my yearly client visits. She has 2 laptops, and another one of my oldie, but goodies. Like another client earlier this month, she has a desktop computer that I built and delivered in July of 2005. I always try to build them to last, but this is really pushing it.
So much so, that I recommended that it was probably about time to consider upgrading, especially since she’s still running XP on this machine and support is falling off fast. I cleaned up her two laptops and fixed a couple of problems But I didn’t really do anything with the old desktop, since I’m going to give her a quote on a new machine in the next day or two.
Before I left I also checked to be sure that her Epson Workforce 520 printer and her HP 4850 Scanner both have Win8 drivers available so they won’t have to be replaced with the new machine.
One thing about working on Jean’s computers is that she always sends me home with fresh baked treats, in this case, warm Oatmeal-Applesauce Muffins..
They’re going to be great for breakfast the next several mornings. Yummm!
Then I was off to another client in the Pasadena area to drop off the laptop that I had finally removed the Conduit Search malware. I’m sure Tricia was glad to have it back, and I was glad to see it go.
Then I was off to the client’s office where I worked Saturday night, to see if my fixes and updates were still doing OK. No problems so far.
I headed back to the rig about 4:30 and then Jan and I drove up to Seabrook to have dinner at Hooter’s.
Jan had the Chicken Strips with 911 sauce, which used to be one of their hottest before they added a number of new ones. She also got an order of their new Mega Fries that we shared. I had my usual 10 wings, all drums, naked, with the new Triple Dog Dare sauce (now their hottest) with a side of their also-new Chipotle Honey sauce.
BTW “naked’ wings means they don’t have any breading on them. Get your minds out of the gutter. You too, Nick.
Under the heading of “Yeah, that sounds right to me”, I think my problem is that my brain has gotten so full that stuff has started falling out the other side.
Thought for the Day:
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." — Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873
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