6-25-09 Thursday (Forget the Memory)

It’s a pretty laid back day here in Arlington.  There’s probably tons of things we could be doing.  It’s 101 per weather.com and surprisingly the humidity is low.

I was strong willed today.  We had sandwiches here at the coach rather than going out to eat.  We’ve been so bad about that.  Coupons or not, eating out isn’t good for us.  After lunch we went to Walmart to get my cholesterol prescriptions. 

 

Above: Look at how large the selection of costume jewelry is at Walmart!

It’s so damn hot here.  We bought a can of R134A that I’m hoping will solve the lame Jeep A/C cooling problem.  Jim picked out a solar-powered car fan.  Over the years, I’ve had customers that have had this.  I’ve asked if they liked it and most have ranted and raved.  Some people even had 2 (one on each side) installed.  So, this fan is supposed to suck the hot air out while it sits parked and baking in the sun.  We’ll see.

I’ve also installed the memory upgrade into Jim’s laptop.  Jim’s laptop was definitely needing an upgrade.  Sometimes the harddrive would just go and go and go and meanwhile whatever he wanted to do, didn’t really matter to the possessed laptop.  We often joked that his laptop was busy calculating ways to take over the world.  He’d get frustrated and I’d be annoyed hearing the sighing.  He was reluctant to have me upgrade it.  Price was an issue but it turned out to be $30.00.  Also, it’s been our bad luck that 1 upgrade always lead to others because part A didn’t want to work with the old part B.  It was a domino effect really.  The cheap upgrade would soon merit a mortgage loan.  This time -- $30.00.  Yeah baby!  Now if I could just get my sound card to work in my laptop.

Wow, ask and I shall receive.  I seemed to have made my sound card work again.  It’s something with the computer’s BIOS.  Hmmmmm.

The solar fan seems to barely move, if at all.  Perhaps the window tint is preventing it from getting enough sun?  It can also run off 12V so we may utilize it that way OR it may go back to the store.

It’s been a sad week.  Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and then Michael Jackson have all left us. 

Jim and I have went to a Redbox DVD rental unit, got a movie and will just kick back this evening.  Jim has been working on some plans for the next few days.  John and Derek have been here a while and haven’t done a lot of sight seeing.  We plan to drag them along too.