Bloody Murphy!!!
(Y'know, that sounds like it'd make a good name for one fucked up drink.. ^^)
What was I doing ..?
Oh yes. Murphy.
Yesterday, Andi drove out to Portland to harass the faculty (he got what he was after, at least..) .. however, on his way back the clutch fell out of the car. (We knew it was going - but.. o.O).
Mind you, this is on I5 - one of the main highways - near rush hour. He got it off the road and the four-way flashers on, at least, so that was okay - but since no one'd told him that that the way you handle a break-down on the highway here is to /stay/ with the vehicle (eventually ODOT or a cop will stop - occasionally you even get a Good Samaritan with a cellphone). What you do in Germany if that happens is get out and find a phone - they stick em along the highway every kilometer or so - (... that's a pretty good idea. Wish they'd do that here.. o.O) so that's not a big deal. They don't do that here, and he didn't have my cell with him... so he hikes up and hill and climbs the fence to get to a phone and calls home.
... Mom eventually managed to raise a tow for the car and figure out how the @!$%& to get him home, but we were bouncing off the walls pretty good by then...
So there's a shop in Portland putting a new clutch in it - /maybe/ we get it back by Wenesday. (Monday, if we're /very/ fortunate.)
All in all, a nerve-wracking experience that ended without any serious losses.
... Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike computers sometimes? We just replaced the RAM in mine (I had a full gig - this was not a cheap replacement) in the hopes of sorting out a problem with wonkiness (Every so often, my comp will do something /throughly/ weird - half-chalked up to Jet and Ayzur having fun in the depths - and crash something. Last time it was the whole fragging network...
So we replaced mainboard, RAM ... Andi tested the RAM in Merroune, and we find out that it's fine. (Merroune just gained a full gig of RAM. Heh.) Huh?
Obviously, that don't leave much, but process of elimination leaves the CPU or the PSU. *sigh*
Well, the latter's easy to test... >.<
In /good/ news - we've got our grubby paws on an ice cream machine (Did I mention this earlier?) and I have a recipe for raspberry icecream and about four-fifths of the necessary ingredients.. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to set that up... *purr*
What was I doing ..?
Oh yes. Murphy.
Yesterday, Andi drove out to Portland to harass the faculty (he got what he was after, at least..) .. however, on his way back the clutch fell out of the car. (We knew it was going - but.. o.O).
Mind you, this is on I5 - one of the main highways - near rush hour. He got it off the road and the four-way flashers on, at least, so that was okay - but since no one'd told him that that the way you handle a break-down on the highway here is to /stay/ with the vehicle (eventually ODOT or a cop will stop - occasionally you even get a Good Samaritan with a cellphone). What you do in Germany if that happens is get out and find a phone - they stick em along the highway every kilometer or so - (... that's a pretty good idea. Wish they'd do that here.. o.O) so that's not a big deal. They don't do that here, and he didn't have my cell with him... so he hikes up and hill and climbs the fence to get to a phone and calls home.
... Mom eventually managed to raise a tow for the car and figure out how the @!$%& to get him home, but we were bouncing off the walls pretty good by then...
So there's a shop in Portland putting a new clutch in it - /maybe/ we get it back by Wenesday. (Monday, if we're /very/ fortunate.)
All in all, a nerve-wracking experience that ended without any serious losses.
... Have I ever mentioned how much I dislike computers sometimes? We just replaced the RAM in mine (I had a full gig - this was not a cheap replacement) in the hopes of sorting out a problem with wonkiness (Every so often, my comp will do something /throughly/ weird - half-chalked up to Jet and Ayzur having fun in the depths - and crash something. Last time it was the whole fragging network...
So we replaced mainboard, RAM ... Andi tested the RAM in Merroune, and we find out that it's fine. (Merroune just gained a full gig of RAM. Heh.) Huh?
Obviously, that don't leave much, but process of elimination leaves the CPU or the PSU. *sigh*
Well, the latter's easy to test... >.<
In /good/ news - we've got our grubby paws on an ice cream machine (Did I mention this earlier?) and I have a recipe for raspberry icecream and about four-fifths of the necessary ingredients.. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to set that up... *purr*
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