But have you ever scratched your eyeball? Man, it’s like hell. Or maybe it just reminds me of Hell.
Today’s the last day in PHX for a while. I’ll make some calls around, but it looks like good old-fashioned not-much-happennin’. I’m thinking (and I like this thought because it only means a $35-$75 fix instead of an entire new laptop) that I may have burned out my AC adapter. I took the voltmeter to it last night, and assumming my head isn’t full of squashed flies, there’s no current coming out of the thing. Which sure would explain why the laptop doesn’t turn on. If I can, I’m going to try to get out to an Apple Store of some kind and see if they can just plug it in with one of their AC adapters to see if that’s the problem. Anyone know what busses run through the Biltmore area?
It feels like there is actual cat hair between my eyelid and my eyeball. Except on fire. That antihistamine I just took better take effect soon, or I’ll have to tear a hole in space-time to get somewhere I’ll be okay to get around.
I have used more Windows XP in the last couple of days than in the last eight months. It’s frustrating, all the things it doesn’t do right. I’m thinking what needs to be done is someone needs to write a virus that infects people’s computers, then senses when people are frustrated with Windows and pops up with the Apple web page showing how Apple computers don’t have the specific problem they were having, and suggests they order a Mac. Of course, I also think there should be a way for ‘switchers’ to turn in their CDs and licenses for the PC versions of software they use in exchange for the Mac version when they switch, for maybe a small, nominal fee covering the cost of the CD and Manuals themselves. The biggest reason I hear from people about switching isn’t with anything Apple is doing, but with the cost of re-buying all their software. (For those of you who just pirated your PC software anyway and complain that there aren’t good pirating options for Macs, either grow up and pay for your software or take the time to learn how we do it.)
No, I’m going to go fight with BitPass. Wish me luck!
Pick up the Blue at PV Mall. Takes you all the way down 24th St to Camelback. Happy Apple-ing!
Pick up the Blue at PV Mall. Takes you all the way down 24th St to Camelback. Happy Apple-ing!
Well, the Blue line got me there, which is good. And then the Apple Store confirmed for me that it was NOT my AC Adapter, which is bad. There’s one other thing to try, with a low probability of succuess: taking the whole laptop apart and cleaning everything inside carefully with 90% rubbing alcohol. That should take a few days, but MAYBE it’ll work. The other options are these: Pay someone $75/hour to replace the ‘logic board’ and otherwise troubleshoot the machine, which will cost upwards of $1200 (the cost of a new iBook laptop). Also, buy a new laptop.
So, that’s my new plan. First, try the alcohol thing, because a couple of bucks for rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs plus dozens of hours of careful work seems cheaper than what I am likely to spend on a new laptop. Then, figure out how to do sufficient marketing for my novel to sell several hundred copies, to cover the cost of a replacement Powerbook.
Sigh.
Well, the Blue line got me there, which is good. And then the Apple Store confirmed for me that it was NOT my AC Adapter, which is bad. There’s one other thing to try, with a low probability of succuess: taking the whole laptop apart and cleaning everything inside carefully with 90% rubbing alcohol. That should take a few days, but MAYBE it’ll work. The other options are these: Pay someone $75/hour to replace the ‘logic board’ and otherwise troubleshoot the machine, which will cost upwards of $1200 (the cost of a new iBook laptop). Also, buy a new laptop.
So, that’s my new plan. First, try the alcohol thing, because a couple of bucks for rubbing alcohol and cotton swabs plus dozens of hours of careful work seems cheaper than what I am likely to spend on a new laptop. Then, figure out how to do sufficient marketing for my novel to sell several hundred copies, to cover the cost of a replacement Powerbook.
Sigh.
You should do a comic about how awful ice is. Like, maybe a war on ice or something. I’d read it. Ice can be a very compelling adversary, if its dialogue is written well.
You should do a comic about how awful ice is. Like, maybe a war on ice or something. I’d read it. Ice can be a very compelling adversary, if its dialogue is written well.
your fat and someone stole my eyeball
your fat and someone stole my eyeball
Man I fucking poked myself in the fucking eye with a fucking ALOE PLANT today and it’s FUCKING KILLING ME!
I answer this phone this morning but I
Man I fucking poked myself in the fucking eye with a fucking ALOE PLANT today and it’s FUCKING KILLING ME!
I answer this phone this morning but I