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The good and bad
Jul. 16th, 2025 18:13 The new computer migration has not been without a hitch. While adding a monitor to the computer that I'm not even keeping I killed my good monitor that had another couple of decades of use. My friend in the computer world gave me a set of matching monitors and I discovered what a bad monitor was like. So I found a new one on Amazon for a reasonable price and it is clear and clean and crisp and HUGE. It is a 27 inch which was the size available in the monitor that was reasonable. But it takes up too much room so I've got to juggle everything to make it work. Which I will eventually. I'm now waiting for another two weeks for the Chromebox that I want to arrive. Until I've got that I can't really arrange things the way I want them so it is currently all a mess all over the place.
So now I've got one broken monitor and two that work but I either can't use or don't want. And no one wants to recycle monitors. Zero money in them. I've decided to put them in my attic. They can either come back down when I find a place that will take them or live up there permanently. Either way is fine.
And I've got a great all in one Brother printer that I put on FreeCycle. I did get a nibble but no bite yet. If I don't get anything by the weekend I'll put it out elsewhere. It needs to go to a good home. Anyone without Chrome.
One really nice thing is that I found a BW wireless Brother printer that Chrome loves. Set it up without a manual in about five minutes and printed from my phone and from my computer. I've never had a wireless printer before. It is wonderful and perfect for what I want and was cheap. The cartridge will likely last for a couple of years.
No idea what I'm going to do with the computer. I'll probably pull the drive and put it up in the attic with the moniors. Maybe I'll stumble across some Linnux guy that wants a computer. It would kick ass with Linnux.
I'll be really happy when I can clean up my office.
Meanwhile Dana went up to Tyler to see her granddaughter for a belated birthday celebration. Dana was feeling good enough to drive although she took her rolling walker just in case. She got there.
The upshot of all of Dana's hip stuff is that it is not currently infected. All the bloodwork markers say so and the redness is slowly going away. She's still got some weird issues that the doc says are stitches coming up to the surface. They call it medical practice for a reason, I guess. This was certainly not medical excellence.
She'll be years knitting all the stuff back up in her thigh but it will eventually be better and is now, obviously, serviceable.
I'm enjoying the time and quiet here with the dogs.
So now I've got one broken monitor and two that work but I either can't use or don't want. And no one wants to recycle monitors. Zero money in them. I've decided to put them in my attic. They can either come back down when I find a place that will take them or live up there permanently. Either way is fine.
And I've got a great all in one Brother printer that I put on FreeCycle. I did get a nibble but no bite yet. If I don't get anything by the weekend I'll put it out elsewhere. It needs to go to a good home. Anyone without Chrome.
One really nice thing is that I found a BW wireless Brother printer that Chrome loves. Set it up without a manual in about five minutes and printed from my phone and from my computer. I've never had a wireless printer before. It is wonderful and perfect for what I want and was cheap. The cartridge will likely last for a couple of years.
No idea what I'm going to do with the computer. I'll probably pull the drive and put it up in the attic with the moniors. Maybe I'll stumble across some Linnux guy that wants a computer. It would kick ass with Linnux.
I'll be really happy when I can clean up my office.
Meanwhile Dana went up to Tyler to see her granddaughter for a belated birthday celebration. Dana was feeling good enough to drive although she took her rolling walker just in case. She got there.
The upshot of all of Dana's hip stuff is that it is not currently infected. All the bloodwork markers say so and the redness is slowly going away. She's still got some weird issues that the doc says are stitches coming up to the surface. They call it medical practice for a reason, I guess. This was certainly not medical excellence.
She'll be years knitting all the stuff back up in her thigh but it will eventually be better and is now, obviously, serviceable.
I'm enjoying the time and quiet here with the dogs.