Technical Woes From Head to Toes
Well, we made it home yesterday after our overnight delay in Providence, which turned out to be pretty nice, by the way. Then came time to work on getting my laptop fixed. I figured I would hook up an external monitor in order to do some work on it and back up everything before sending it off for repairs.
It seemed it was working fine until all of a sudden, the screen on the external monitor started "smearing," too. As it turns out, there are problems with the internal workings of the laptop as well as the LCD screen. It has taken me almost 24 hours to get to the point where I feel everything of importance is backed up. It would work for a few minutes, the pixels would begin going haywire, followed by either a freeze up or a spontaneous reboot.
So, Gateway is sending a computer box so that I can send it in for repair. It's going to be hard to function for "7-10 days" without my laptop. Isn't it amazing how dependent of technology we have begun. Kind of scary, really. I'll actually have to [shudder] write by hand! "Oh, the humanity!"
As a result of my hours in front of the computer doing technical hoo-hah, plus the almost four hours spent on the phone with technical support last night until midnight, I really don't have many deep thoughts today. I'm doing good to have a thought today. Hopefully, I'll get back to normal posts tomorrow.
I should point you to a good post today by Peter Glover at Wires From the Bunker. Peter has some quotes by C. S. Lewis regarding "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe." While some are trying to claim that Lewis never intended for the story to be Christocentric, Lewis himself offers dispute. Check it out here.
It seemed it was working fine until all of a sudden, the screen on the external monitor started "smearing," too. As it turns out, there are problems with the internal workings of the laptop as well as the LCD screen. It has taken me almost 24 hours to get to the point where I feel everything of importance is backed up. It would work for a few minutes, the pixels would begin going haywire, followed by either a freeze up or a spontaneous reboot.
So, Gateway is sending a computer box so that I can send it in for repair. It's going to be hard to function for "7-10 days" without my laptop. Isn't it amazing how dependent of technology we have begun. Kind of scary, really. I'll actually have to [shudder] write by hand! "Oh, the humanity!"
As a result of my hours in front of the computer doing technical hoo-hah, plus the almost four hours spent on the phone with technical support last night until midnight, I really don't have many deep thoughts today. I'm doing good to have a thought today. Hopefully, I'll get back to normal posts tomorrow.
I should point you to a good post today by Peter Glover at Wires From the Bunker. Peter has some quotes by C. S. Lewis regarding "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe." While some are trying to claim that Lewis never intended for the story to be Christocentric, Lewis himself offers dispute. Check it out here.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 12/06/2005 04:45:00 PM
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Wait! I just read a previous post of yours...you were in Marlboro?? How on earth did you end up there? I grew up there...was at Grace Baptist Church until I moved to the south. I'm in Shrewsbury (where my parents live now) for break!
Yes, I was in Marlboro. My wife's office is there (OK, the company office...hers is in Kentucky). We were there for two-and-a-half days before heading into Boston.
We used to live in Oxford, MA until we moved to Kentucky. We visited Grace several times before starting our church in Worcester. I hope you enjoy being home.
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