The past few days, mostly in link form.
info on a computer’s power supply fan
Forced-air Furnace and Heating Repairs
Testing with a Multimeter
Setting up the laptop with a second (larger) monitor – dang, I need some sort of adapter
Getting your house ready to sell (long term goal)
Google talk (I’m sillyandrea, stop by and say hi.)
grocery shopping
Flylady’s moving tips. Actually, Organized Home’s moving tips is a less scatterbrained read.
map of Woodstock
And our lovely hosting company, Site5, who fixed my boo-boos and does special things for me.
And a random Emma quote from this morning at the grocery store, in the chip aisle, to the guy restocking the shelves:
“Did I mention I was five?”
For a larger monitor on your laptop you need some kind of adapter? I presume you mean that your laptop does not have a “dual monitor” chipset? It must be quite an old laptop then. Most laptops within the last two years have this feature.
If you don’t have dual monitor chipset then as the link says you need a PCMCIA card that gives you a second VGA port. Shouldn’t be too espensive these days.
Mike
Hi mike! Yeah, it’s a really old laptop. It has the capability, just needs the adapter.
It will actually use an external monitor, but it won’t use both at the same time. It’s been so long since I used an external monitor that I don’t remember how to tell the laptop to use the external instead of built-in. And I’m too far away to troubleshoot.
No doubt we should get together and enjoy the stories. I think if my week had as many mechanical failures, I would have moved out and left everyone else to figure it out. But that would be lack of sleep talking. At least you had presence of mind to fix almost everything. Oh well, at least you know something good is coming. (I mean it can get just so bad before something fun happens.)
Well, yes at some point you just have to laugh, right? And I fix stuff because taking things apart is far more productive that running around crying and screaming my head off or wringing my hands.
Which I have done.
So I learned to fix stuff because there have been times where I’ve been forced to because the usual fix-it man was literally thousands of miles away.
here is a tip I learned through the home and garden forum on todays parent. One woman color coded the box’s with bright paper. Like everything yellow was kitchen, blue bedroom1. red bathroom, that kind of thing and it really helped the pack and move go easier especially for the poor moving company guys.
if you would like to umm get rid of stuff i know someone who might take some of it off your hands..giggle