Author: Jessica

So it turns out my new machine at work is not a 3.0ghz pentium 4 with 2 gigs
of ram, but a dual-processor 3.0 ghz pentium 4 with 2 gigs of ram.
R. just got a replacement machine that’s essentially identical to my new
machine to “fix” his broken cd-drive…overkill for the problem? perhaps…
but who’s gonna complain if IT replaces your machine with a faster one?

They sure knows how to keep me from ever wanting to go home though… ;-).
Just give me gluttonous amounts of computing power at my finger-tips…

PS: The guy from IT says, as he’s trying to identfy what was wrong with R.’s cd-drive, “Well, its either hardware or software.” Speak of the obvious,lol.

I went to Compusa tonight to see if they sold replacement toshiba power supplies. No luck. I tried calling them first, but their automated service was so confusing that I couldn’t get through to a real human, eventually hitting a number for a “manager on duty” that probably is supposed to go through to a real person but after ringing several times just dumps you back to the automated system. So I just ordered it from Toshiba directly. It was only $1 more for 2-3 day shipping instead of 3-7 day shipping…so I decided to splurge and get the air shipping so I’ll hopefully have it this week. Ohhh and on the plus side, sometime between wednesday (when I looked online to see how expensive the power cable is) and today the exact cable I need (funky connector and all) went on sale for $10 off. 🙂

Ummm, yeah, this is bad…the power cable for my laptop just caught fire…

So I start noticing this little black smoke puff coming from the back of my laptop, right? Since this is probably about the third time in the past couple days I’ve imagined I’ve seen this little “whoa, is my laptop overheating??” type moment, so I decide to look at it ASAP so I can catch it in the act of whatever’s gone wrong…

Next thing you know that smoldering wire is now a flaming wire, and I’m sitting here blowing it out like a candle while I scramble to unplug the a/c adapter at the same time. The power cable burned clear through before the flame extinguished itself, making the power cord now completely useless. At least it wasn’t like it caught fire while I wasn’t home or something…because I do sometimes leave it on (or forget to turn it off) when I’m not home…because that would have been way worse 🙂

Yesterday…I let my hair dry with gel in it so that it was all extra curly and let it hang loose, rather than my usual tie it back in a tight ponytail out of my face styling.

The difference between HR people and engineers? Nobody in engineering really noticed–well, actually, one guy did, and all he had to say somewhat quizzically, “did you do something different with your hair?” But then I went over to HR yesterday to get some paperwork. The girls in HR? A high pitched squeal of “Ohhmiiiigoosh, your hair looks soooo good like that, you should wear it like that more often!”

So after two calls to tech support and a half hour straight on the phone, I can finally log into my ISP web account again so I can delete some pictures and fix some broken links on my bookmarks homepage. yay. my account was seriously broken–somehow the master account had been turned into a sub-account off the new main account, and the homepage account is no longer linked to the “real” master account so I can’t do password lookup, but after having them reset the password twice and logging into the ftp server with the router unplugged and then hook it back up again, it all works just fine, go figure.

In some way this is vaguely amusing… so I can’t log into my isp webpage space to update one page because it says “login incorrect”, presumably because my password is incorrect. I’m pretty sure I know my webpage space username because its in the URL to the webpage, so its kinda hard to forget. I’m about 90% positive about what the password would be…but apparently that’s not it, or the account is somehow disabled…

So I thought I’d be all smart and use the “username/password lookup” tool, and make sure I knew the password for the webspace. All you have to do is enter your master account username and password, and press submit… aaaaand… well, apparently the master account for my account is no longer the master account. I’m not sure how that works because it is (or should be) the SAME username as is pre-printed on the installation receipt–it doesn’t just change on its own… So I’m not exactly sure what my master account is if its not the account they told me was the master one…

Unfortunately that’s a “billing or password issue” so I can’t get help from their web-chat support, I have to wait for hours the office is open, which I guess I’m lucky they *do* work on saturdays…

I am now the owner of my own domain name. hehehe 🙂 For the time being I have it redirecting to my old website on tripod, but with some php hosting coming up…I may do some redesign on my website 🙂