2011-08-31:
So back to mr blue screen this morning. Ran the WD hard drive "full" test which said it passed. Well, I reloaded XP and took his old HD away. Two hours. Hate. Windows. But at least it was two hours with no blue screen, so that's promising.
Back home. Worked on getting my solar collector patched up, as the glass had slid all around presumably from the heat generated and melting the adhesive on the tape. So it's not quite as pretty now but hopefully it'll be fine. I'll have to see about covering it better next year.
Went over to get the superdrive back from a customer of mine that's moving (I sold it to her long, long ago) and she was complaining her mac mini was slow. It's a pretty recent model so I figured it couldn't be that bad. Well, it only had 1GB of RAM, and I was like, yup, there's your problem.
It was pretty new though, so I didn't think I had any RAM for it. She was leaving Friday, so there was no way I was going to do it. I went to look though, you never know what you'll find in my car. Well, I came up with 2 2gb chips! Huh. Couldn't figure out where they came from until I left, I remembered Neil gave me some after he upgraded his system, those must have been the chips he gave me. So thanks!
So with all that I was late to my actual afternoon one, but that was fine. Checked two both over, sold her my old external DVD-RW as the one on the laptop was broken, and dug the crud out of the monitor button so it would, you know, turn on and off properly.
Bunch of calls today, wow. Didn't actually mean any more work for me. Just two so far for tomorrow, the Radison as I guess she moved her desk and now can't print. And go get the money from my buddy Bruce and see about getting him a laptop. I looked at the website of the place he wants me to go, uh, they don't have any $150 laptops. So, good luck Bruce. Why me?
I have to call the outreach center, they still owe me some money, actually. And Bob called me, probably got his replacement PC in, but he wasn't there, so I'll probably do that tomorrow too if I can reach him.
Talked some people through some stuff. Finished Steel Egg as well today. Good that it was short, I guess. The pain didn't last too long.