That Sort of Day
Jan. 25th, 2026 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperWe apparently got around four inches of snow, which Julie has shoveled off the driveway. The cold means that the salt that is hitting the roads is not nearly as effective as you might hope, so things are very slick around here. This was slightly important when I ran out for lunch, but got to be a whole lot more important later in the day.
Julie noticed that her computer was misbehaving again and asked if I could blow the dust out of it. Since Gretchen gifted me with a fine blower fan for just this purpose, I said I'd be happy to if she brought it upstairs, but then it decided to shut down from overheating before then.
Ok. There was some initial confusion about what fan was having the problem before Julie made it clear that the CPU's heatsink fan had given up the ghost. Oh. I had replacement case fans that I'd picked up at an earlier date, but I don't have a replacement for a CPU heatsink. If we were having good weather, I'd have just shot down to Micro Center to pick up a replacement, but I was positively not making this trip on these roads. And unfortunately, the replacement I ordered from Amazon won't be here until Tuesday, assuming that there are no weather delays.
But we have a computer in the dining room too and everything Julie wanted to be doing was on line, so we were able to get her set up on that machine and she is happily tapping away. Well, except for the fact that there's a noticeable hum when her headphones are plugged into the speakers, because she's listening at a very low volume. There's nothing trivial to be done about that, so here we are. (I checked obvious things with no luck.)
Calvin the Dog picked today to have two separate "accidents" in the house; one of each kind. This was especially annoying, because accident number two (of number two) was right after we had let him back in. *grumble*
On the better news front, the Seahawks beat the Rams. :)
Julie noticed that her computer was misbehaving again and asked if I could blow the dust out of it. Since Gretchen gifted me with a fine blower fan for just this purpose, I said I'd be happy to if she brought it upstairs, but then it decided to shut down from overheating before then.
Ok. There was some initial confusion about what fan was having the problem before Julie made it clear that the CPU's heatsink fan had given up the ghost. Oh. I had replacement case fans that I'd picked up at an earlier date, but I don't have a replacement for a CPU heatsink. If we were having good weather, I'd have just shot down to Micro Center to pick up a replacement, but I was positively not making this trip on these roads. And unfortunately, the replacement I ordered from Amazon won't be here until Tuesday, assuming that there are no weather delays.
But we have a computer in the dining room too and everything Julie wanted to be doing was on line, so we were able to get her set up on that machine and she is happily tapping away. Well, except for the fact that there's a noticeable hum when her headphones are plugged into the speakers, because she's listening at a very low volume. There's nothing trivial to be done about that, so here we are. (I checked obvious things with no luck.)
Calvin the Dog picked today to have two separate "accidents" in the house; one of each kind. This was especially annoying, because accident number two (of number two) was right after we had let him back in. *grumble*
On the better news front, the Seahawks beat the Rams. :)