driving karma

I went to the pool this morning at the same time I used to (until this week) come home from the pool. The homeward side of the road was packed to the gills. While I was swimming teh sun was out bright and full of glare. When I got ready to leave the gym, the sun went behind a cloud and the traffic pretty much disappeared! I think I used up all my driving karma in that one trip.  This is what it looks like now and most of the time except lately when I want to get home.  That one stretch that runs horizontal in the picture is a long bridge that is usually the major bottleneck.



Today might well be an IT day. My brother looked into the innards of my software and reports that there is at least one USB that is/was failing severely.  There are a million USB things plugged into the docking station. So I will start by unplugging everything and then putting back only that stuff that is critical one by one.

Happily it's no longer a machine that I really depend on. It's nice to have and if it dies, I'll replace it but probably with another refurb. My every day machines are chromebooks and I love them.   Especially now that I have the iTunes/iPod problem being handled by the little elcheapo Windows 10 machine.

Other than that, nothing big on the agenda. Just a regular day of sewing, knitting and then the baseball game tonight.

Friday afternoon

So my laptop troubleshooting project turned into a project-ette. I had one 10 port USB hub that had 10 different things plugged into it and was failing. So the laptop was failing 10 different ways. I unplugged the hub and that fixed the whole thing. Between the laptop and the docking station, I now have no more USB spots open but I also don't really need any - at least right now. In a pinch, I don't need the one used by the printer - it can go wireless if necessary.

A couple of restarts and hard reboots just to make sure all was fine and victory was declared.

So it was on to dolls.