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Fried Apples

March 10, 2008 at 11:19 pm | In Fuss, Natter, Technology | No Comments

My computer has a psychological disorder. I just diagnosed it. It had water on the brain and I had to perform surgery to relieve the pressure and decrease seizures. In the process, I nicked a major nerve center and for a while it was in a coma. Nothing could bring it back. So I opened the skull again only to find that if I wriggled the nerve, it would wake up. I tried repairing the nerve, but it still isn’t back to baseline functioning. So while I had the skull open I wriggled the nerve so as to wake the patient. I put it back together again and explained that it could never be shut down. Oh, it could take naps and sleep for a while, but never shut down. I installed an nerve pacemaker just in case. If the computer ever gets shut down, the pacemaker will automatically kick in at midnight every night and turn its sorry butt back on. I explained to the computer that I had to do this because the nerve that I nicked was actually its power switch. If it ever got shut down without this nerve pacemaker in place it may never wake up again - stay in a coma. I had to amputate the rubber feet to perform the surgery. After explaining that the computer didn’t really need those screws I left out, it felt better. Overall, the surgery was a success, but it will never be the same.

What the heck is this all about? Well my Mac computer laptop had water spilled on it on Saturday (by kid #3). He felt real bad, but so did the computer. After an emergency engineering design change, the computer is now functioning and is on permanently. I can’t shut it off - if I do I have to wait until midnight for it to turn on again. I hope this system doesn’t fail because if it does, that means I have to open the computer and wriggle the broken power switch under the hood just to get it to turn on. The part I am talking about is on the main logic board in the computer and it needs to be replaced. However, due to a lack of finances I can’t afford to replace it (could be $400 or more). It’s better to buy a new laptop or find a way to get it for $280 through Apple - but I think that’s iffy.

Was that all from this weekend? NO! We had 4 sick kids (puke and diarrhea - you choose), a sick Kim, the dog puked, Lundi hurt her eye on a box and got a black eye, the kids were crazy all weekend, I didn’t get my homework done - oh my my my. What a weekend. I felt bad ’cause I yelled at harrison when he spilled water on the computer. It was a mistake, but I anyone who knows me knows that the computer is an appendage to me. Frying those apples would be just like cutting off an arm. That didn’t excuse my behavior…just that that’s what happened. Today I went to school without my computer. The notes I handwrote were terrible. I was sad. So when I fixed it today I felt much better. I got up at 4am today so I could get homework done. After I got back from school I took a nap and then got up, went to the bank, fixed the computer, made quiche, did more homework and then went to my monday night class until 9pm. Sheesh! OK, well, I am going now. Bye!

RSS Posts

September 3, 2007 at 11:49 pm | In Technology | No Comments

Most blogs have a news feed. RSS and Atom are just 2 different formats. Each of them have different versions. My blog has a feed. Feeds make reading the information you want easier. You can collect specific feeds all into one place and read them all at once. Or you can read them a little at a time. It’s flexible and can be downloaded for off-line reading.

On my sidebar, there are some feeds from allnurses.com, Kim’s blog and the LDS Church. These feeds are automatically updated and included on my page. They have some familiar icons next to them. They look like this:

My blog has a feed at the bottom of the sidebar, but I will be including feeds for specific categories of posts like SN Notes (the category for Nursing Class Notes), Family and the entire blog; maybe there will be a few more. Look for the news feeds in the sidebar. Once you click on the newsfeeds in the web browsers, you can actually bookmark it and whenever there’s new posts, you’ll see a number next to it. That number means there are that many new posts waiting for you to read.

Now, this will be particularly useful if you have Safari, Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox. You can also download newsreaders or aggregators.

Try it out!

ALL around!

July 20, 2007 at 3:35 pm | In Natter, Plea, Technology | 1 Comment

I am using www.statcounter.com to track visits. I have looked over the data and see that people are visiting my website from up and down the east coast and a few from the western United States. Even more interesting are the visits logged from Germany and Kuwait. Very fascinating. How many of you use Apple computers and how many of you use a Windows machine?

Stake Work

June 30, 2007 at 7:35 pm | In Credo, Natter, Technology | No Comments

I took a tour around the Stake for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My responsibilities include the Ward’s Young Men program, but I have a Stake responsibility – Stake Technology Specialist. And as such, the computers needed some upgrades. First, Farmington, Rockport, Belfast and Ellsworth on the same day, then sleep at President Hassel’s. Day 2 took our whole family to the two Bangor wards and the Stake Center, then finished at Machias. Day 3: Skowhegan. Another Day, we went to the Bangor Stake center again, then on to Milo, Dover-Foxcroft and Moosehead. On the way home, we stopped at Newport. Yesterday, I finished Waterville. It’s hard to visit all the local units in the Stake. However, I took the whole family. They were so nice and helpful. Sure beats driving by yerself!