Day 4

MORE FROM DAY FOUR

VELOCITY MICRO PC ARRIVED. Set it up. Turned it on. and voila, heard some tinkling sound inside case, and then long and short beeps and nothing on the screen.

So I opened the case and it seems that the CPU Fan has detatched from the heat sink and is dangling. It isn't attached (or wasn't attached) by screws but by some little plastic things, one of which melted. So I spent awhile trying to get the fan re-attached, but given the state of my nerves - gave up and ate some bits of a brownie. Then called MicroVelocity and couldn't get through (waited 10 minutes). The repeating message was especially annoying because there would be this pause and you think they're going to pick up, but no. It just starts all over again.

Anyway - the box - except for the fan problem - looks cleanly-wired inside. I just need to figure out how to get the fan re-attached. Will tackle that tomorrow. If I can't figure it out, will call them again.

Today really seemed endless.

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Under the Clocks

Day four has been the worst so far; probably because I'm sort of stuck in the house waiting for the new PC to be delivered. I need to walk off the anger that surfaces when I'm going cold turkey. Anyway - for those of you who have never been addicted to something - it isn't so bad to kick the habit - if you can learn to enjoy suffering. You would be amazed at all the weird stuff that happens to you when you give up the nicotine, and not always the same.

Last time I quit - my sense of direction just disappeared and I got lost driving out to New Jersey (though that can happen any time to any New Yorker).

This time, my right eye seems itchy. I kid you not. And that's my shootin' eye. Also the eye I wear a contact lens in fer shootin'. It's all connected up somehow - but not sure how. Oh, and if you think my spelling is bad (which it is) read the Lewis and Clark journals. It seems that even educated men in 1807-ish could spell any word however they wished:

"Weve spottid the hornbloewing toortle fer the fifthe tyme and this beste mesures 7.4 inches whide."

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Has anyone ever used any of those Epson printer tips that flash by in their modal driver window while printing? You know the ones I mean (there's a little yellow light bulb with little exclamation accents popping out and they flash by as you are actually printing puporting to assist you)

TIP: Try cleaning the print heads to remove banding problems.

TIP: For best results, match paper with the correct media setting.

TIP: Paper should be loaded printable side down when using the paper tray.

TIP: If you don't know any of the above, then you had better give back your printer because you don't stand a chance.

TIP: This TIP was written by an automated help program named HALSKY and has not helped anybody yet. These tips are copyright Epson Corporation and are there to give the illusion of help - not to actually help anyone. Any help received by these tips are strictly accidental.