I’m Trying to Post but Nothing Happens

Before I thought of writing the AI post, I had another in mind.  Well, also before I thought of writing about Valerie saying “thingamahoobie” this morning.  Sadie says it all the time, for something she doesn’t know or can’t think of the name of offhand, and sometimes just because she knows it’s cute.  Valerie never said it before, and we had no idea she knew the expression, for all her vocabulary challenges Sadie’s and her enunciation blows Sadie’s away.

It’s icky out.  Just the sort of day to run to the post office to mail packages.  I was congratulating myself for not having to go to the store, and being able to return the client’s computer tomorrow.  Not a big deal though, since it’s maybe half a mile.  On a good day with a light load I’d walk.

The computer I worked on yesterday needed a video card.  It seems an unlikely source of spontaneous reboots, but it hasn’t done that to me.  It sat and defragmented the drive from around 4:15 PM or so until the wee hours.  The drive had zero free space, but it had 296 folders full of .CHK files from it spontaneously rebooting and running scandisk.  Those, temp files and temporary internet files gave it 13 GB free.  A DLL needed for MMC was corrupt, which meant being unable to do some things like look at the event log, but that was easily replaced from dllcache and reregistered.  It needs a video driver, so it’ll run at a good resolution and stop griping.  Today I’ll try to get it on our network/the internet to make the driver thing easy, and to backup some files, as I can do that in case, without adding much to the cost.  Other than that and blowing dust out of the power supply fan, it’ll be about letting it chug, maybe running some programs, and seeing if it stays running.  Totally a background thing that doesn’t add to the cost, but does make having it here for a couple days useful.

We’re planning to offer blog-related services at the business, like a special price on a basic blog setup and get you started package.  What I hadn’t thought of until someone asked about it was the potential of other work for people who blog.  I’ve used cPanel in connection with my hosting for years, and have also helped people with hosting that used alternatives to cPanel, manually backed up MySQL data or removed spam comments or such, and probably have enough programming and web background to look at PHP and figure things out.  Haven’t written things with it myself, but when I needed a contact form, I found a sample and modified it as needed.

I’ve seen a draft of this week’s CotC, which was nicely done and will presumably be up soon.  I’d really love to get a host for next week, though I’m resigned to doing it myself, and already have a collection of self-picked posts started.  An odd thing happened this week.  There were 22 submissions and I passed 13 of them along to the host.  Some were maybes, to my mind, but that is a really solid proportion of good stuff compared to where we were for a time.

We had the week more or less planned out food-wise and are actually ahead of where we expected to be.  Yesterday I made barley lentil soup in chicken stock, light on the chicken put with enough not to be a veggie soup.  Came out great, and was co-supper with leftover spaghetti last night.  And cornbread.  There is more leftover spaghetti, leftover potatoes, and most of the soup available today, when I thought by now we’d be cooking a pot of beans and maybe making tortillas.

Okay, time to get moving.  I can always write another post if I’ve forgotten something.

Posted by on 02/13 at 10:13 AM

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