I've been so busy sewing. I had some of my stuff featured on a local TV show so I was making a whole range of things to feature. It ended up being mildly disappointing because they used my quilt as a table cloth and showed and talked about all of the little stuff but never mentioned the quilt I put over 30 hours of work into was also an item and was mine, since I was on with other people, only my quilt was used (my other items got no play at all) and then as I said it was the table cloth. Well what can you do, I guess you win some and you loose some. It just made me sad, I really put a lot into it and was hoping the beauty of it would get shown off, and instead it looked kind of plain and yuck being fall colors piled with baby items which were all pastels.
There must be some bug going around, my whole household is sick except me, as usual. I always get sick by myself if I get sick at all and since I have the only set of ovaries in the house no one really cares for me but I end up making the chicken soup runs and the Dayquil runs and whatever else. The whole house reeks of Vicks vaporizer stuff too which unfortunately has similar qualities to the smell of cat piss, so I'm not too happy about that either.
My optical mouse broke this morning so I made a run to the CompUSA and was greeted by a very hovery sales guy. He was kind of on my nerves a little because I would have preferred he not follow me around the store, I like browsing and reading the boxes. I selected the Microsoft lasermouse 6000. I have really bad luck with electronic equipment, printers and mice especially, I go through several per year usually. My brother told me about this "Proximity Something-or-other" thing where they did a study and some people emit an electromagnetic field that is not good for electronics. He swears I have it, because I used to do tech support, I'm not retarded, I use my electronics no harder or stupider than anyone else and they are always breaking on me. I spend so much time fixing things and have hardware issues no one has ever seen before. It is bad because I really would much rather never have to think about something working or not working, I expect it to just work. Sadly that never happens. So I read the little booklet that comes with my new mouse, I tab around and uninstall the old mouse and install the drivers for the Lasermouse 6000. I then plug in my new mouse and it SUCKS unlike anything has ever sucked before. It operated as though I had Parkinson's, or maybe IT had Parkinson's. Just my luck, my mouse has Parkinson's disease! I fucked around trying to fix it for an hour and was about ready to throw it through the window or take it to the garage and beat it to death with a sledge hammer. Driver would not install correctly, it was so difficult to tab around and the mouse was not usable. Then one of the guys in the house tried to help me, but I get really agitated when I get shoved out of the way by a penis haver who knows less about what is going on than I do. I made the decision to call Microsoft. First I talked to a guy who gave me a case number and transferred me to a guy in India who had such a thick accent and soft voice I could only understand about 1 out of every 3 words he was saying. He was having me unplug and replug the mouse. Which was a colossal pain in the ass. It involved climbing up on my desk and kind of behind it and I had done it 10 times already anyway. Finally I knew I was getting no-place so I told the guy forget it and hung up on him, I then threw the mouse and all of the crap it came with into the bag and launched it across the room and stomped on it. I then returned it to the CompUSA and exchanged it for a Kensington laser mouse. It worked on the first install, but it is still not my favorite. I've messed with the speed and other settings and it still is a little jumpy. I don't get it. Everyone else in the house can use it and said it was nice, me, it jumps around and is squirrely. Soooo annoying. I really think I have this proximity thing. As a matter of fact the last printer I had was hooked up for quite some time on the desk of one of the housemates and was no trouble. I had it on my desk for a few days and POOF! It was hosed. I got a new computer last year, a nice one dual P4's and RAID (since I have had a few catastrophic losses of hard drives in the past) and a bunch of other stuff. I don't use Warez, I own every piece of software I use legitimately and I don't surf to questionable sites, have all the anti spyware stuff, etc etc and I almost never install or uninstall stuff. I use what I use and had the place who built it for me do the installs of everything. Guess what. I've had my power supply crap out, my proc crap out, a colossal overheating problem, some strange circuit fry on my monitor (and it is a HUGE expensive monitor, it took 6 weeks and special consulting with Sony to get it fixed) and a few other things and now I'm getting fatal errors in all sorts of stuff. Why? I don't get it, and it is generally a hardware problem. So anyway, all in all a frustrating day. Nothing like computer problems to upset me. I think I should look into some electromagnetic shielding for my computer. My cell phones and other electronic gadgets never make it past their warranty expiration either. And I swear, I'm very nice to my things. I work hard for them, spend a lot of money on them and always buy the very best thing I can afford. Weird. Anyone need a guinea pig for a study of this proximity thing?
There must be some bug going around, my whole household is sick except me, as usual. I always get sick by myself if I get sick at all and since I have the only set of ovaries in the house no one really cares for me but I end up making the chicken soup runs and the Dayquil runs and whatever else. The whole house reeks of Vicks vaporizer stuff too which unfortunately has similar qualities to the smell of cat piss, so I'm not too happy about that either.
My optical mouse broke this morning so I made a run to the CompUSA and was greeted by a very hovery sales guy. He was kind of on my nerves a little because I would have preferred he not follow me around the store, I like browsing and reading the boxes. I selected the Microsoft lasermouse 6000. I have really bad luck with electronic equipment, printers and mice especially, I go through several per year usually. My brother told me about this "Proximity Something-or-other" thing where they did a study and some people emit an electromagnetic field that is not good for electronics. He swears I have it, because I used to do tech support, I'm not retarded, I use my electronics no harder or stupider than anyone else and they are always breaking on me. I spend so much time fixing things and have hardware issues no one has ever seen before. It is bad because I really would much rather never have to think about something working or not working, I expect it to just work. Sadly that never happens. So I read the little booklet that comes with my new mouse, I tab around and uninstall the old mouse and install the drivers for the Lasermouse 6000. I then plug in my new mouse and it SUCKS unlike anything has ever sucked before. It operated as though I had Parkinson's, or maybe IT had Parkinson's. Just my luck, my mouse has Parkinson's disease! I fucked around trying to fix it for an hour and was about ready to throw it through the window or take it to the garage and beat it to death with a sledge hammer. Driver would not install correctly, it was so difficult to tab around and the mouse was not usable. Then one of the guys in the house tried to help me, but I get really agitated when I get shoved out of the way by a penis haver who knows less about what is going on than I do. I made the decision to call Microsoft. First I talked to a guy who gave me a case number and transferred me to a guy in India who had such a thick accent and soft voice I could only understand about 1 out of every 3 words he was saying. He was having me unplug and replug the mouse. Which was a colossal pain in the ass. It involved climbing up on my desk and kind of behind it and I had done it 10 times already anyway. Finally I knew I was getting no-place so I told the guy forget it and hung up on him, I then threw the mouse and all of the crap it came with into the bag and launched it across the room and stomped on it. I then returned it to the CompUSA and exchanged it for a Kensington laser mouse. It worked on the first install, but it is still not my favorite. I've messed with the speed and other settings and it still is a little jumpy. I don't get it. Everyone else in the house can use it and said it was nice, me, it jumps around and is squirrely. Soooo annoying. I really think I have this proximity thing. As a matter of fact the last printer I had was hooked up for quite some time on the desk of one of the housemates and was no trouble. I had it on my desk for a few days and POOF! It was hosed. I got a new computer last year, a nice one dual P4's and RAID (since I have had a few catastrophic losses of hard drives in the past) and a bunch of other stuff. I don't use Warez, I own every piece of software I use legitimately and I don't surf to questionable sites, have all the anti spyware stuff, etc etc and I almost never install or uninstall stuff. I use what I use and had the place who built it for me do the installs of everything. Guess what. I've had my power supply crap out, my proc crap out, a colossal overheating problem, some strange circuit fry on my monitor (and it is a HUGE expensive monitor, it took 6 weeks and special consulting with Sony to get it fixed) and a few other things and now I'm getting fatal errors in all sorts of stuff. Why? I don't get it, and it is generally a hardware problem. So anyway, all in all a frustrating day. Nothing like computer problems to upset me. I think I should look into some electromagnetic shielding for my computer. My cell phones and other electronic gadgets never make it past their warranty expiration either. And I swear, I'm very nice to my things. I work hard for them, spend a lot of money on them and always buy the very best thing I can afford. Weird. Anyone need a guinea pig for a study of this proximity thing?
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You would be amazed what I've seen electricians consider A-OK. Then again, maybe you wouldn't. Checking the grounding of your entrance panel is definitely something you can do yourself. All good things start with a good grounding.