Raising from the dead... I hope. Nope.

So my trusty Dell laptop - referbed a year ago - has, after some diagnostics and swearing, a bad hard drive. Sigh. I just gave it new memory but, apparently, it wants a different kind of love.

On the up side, this is right in my brother's wheel house, I have a very handy UPS package/ship place who has kindly handled all of my returns for more than a year now and I'm glad to be able to finally give it some real business, I don't really need the computer for about 2 weeks which is how long it will take to repair, and, probably most importantly, there is nothing on it that cannot easily be recovered.

So really, while annoying, it's no where near tragic or disastrous.

My swim this morning felt particularly good. There's a small older (although probably my age or younger) Asian woman I see nearly every day. She's always walking on the treadmill wearing a really nice looking sweater set. Today, I ran into her the locker room "You swim every day?? Oh I could not. Too cold that water." And then, after my shower, I saw her doing that treadmill walk and we exchanged big smiles and waves. It's fun to have gym friends.

Nothing big on the agenda today. Sewing dolls, packing up laptop for a trip to Texas, watching TV. I saw The Trans List last night (Netflix) and it was really nicely done but I would have loved to have seen about twice as many folks on the list. It was compelling to hear them tell their stories.

While I watched I finished this gender neutral bear.

Reset

I found the DVD that my brother made me for the Dell laptop for recovery. It ran about 2 hours of tests and then played taps. Or maybe that playing taps thing was in my imagination only. But, the hard drive has definitely gone bytes up.

I sent the screen shots to my brother who already has some options in mind but wants to check with his techs first. It's most likely I'll go with a new Lenovo and he'll slap a new drive into this one and sell it for cheap OR use it for demo in the shop. So I spent a nice long time this afternoon dismantling it and all its attachments and re/unwiring all under the desk.

Then I hooked up an old chromebook to the middle monitor and fired up a neat little screensaver so at least I don't have 3 black monitors to stare at while we noodle out Plan B.



I had to fix a part of the underside of the desk and that called for hot glue. I found the hot glue gun and some bullets so that was a major score. I made the fix and then even got the hot glue off my sweatshirt cuff with the iron. I banged the back of my hand several times by accident and was just thrilled when I saw no bruising at all. Man, even a year ago, my hands would look like eggplants after an afternoon like this. Love it.

I bought some bootie type slippers at Grocery Outlet yesterday for cheap. The are perfect for what I need but they had pompoms on the sides that really bugged me. It might come as a surprise to some but I am not a pompom person. So I cut them off and then a light bulb went off.

And they got a new job.