Posts Tagged ‘ vacations ’

There’s just no pleasing some people 08 February 2007 at 10:47 am by Jason 43 views

Imagine, if you will, that you worked in a company without an IT staff… and the people who help you when you’re having issue have to drive an hour or so to get to you. Ouch, right? Now what if you have a few power outages/surges right in a row and no one at your place of business had bought a UPS for any PC? Add in the fact that suddenly after two of these outages a PC that handles important orders goes down (BSOD’s) and that no management is there that day (vacation) and you have yourself a problem, right?

Well, this situation happened to Jess just days ago. Now, as you all know, I’m in IT, so the first thing she thought to do is call me. She told me the BSOD, and we determined that there was a 99% chance it was a memory error. She then talks to the lady who’s having the issue and they agree they’d like me to come down and check it. Now, I’m a nice guy, so I use my lunch break to come test their system. I burn a copy of MemTest86+ and I go down there. Just seconds into the first test the system starts kicking out errors left and right, beautiful. She had two sticks of RAM in there so I take one out, run the full test, it’s good… I then swap it into the other mem slot to make sure it’s not the Mother Board… nope, still fine. I run one last test with the “bad” stick and it starts tossing errors. Great, she blew a stick of RAM.

I explain the results, tell her she needs to buy another, give her advice, etc. She’s happy, she can work, everyone’s happy. Wonderful. Fast forward to yesterday… the management is back and they’ve decided that it’s impossible for a power outage/surge to blow out RAM… I’m obviously trying to screw them over! One of the big wigs there decides that she will test the memory herself by putting it in a system and booting Windows a few times. Awesome test! I have no idea what they think I was trying to do:

Step 1. Lie about RAM.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit!!

Seriously… there’s just no pleasing some people!



+ Less than 24 hours to go… By Jason 21 December 2005 at 11:22 am 138 views 3 Comments

…and I feel like we don’t have enough time. :S So close, yet so far away… we still have to finish cleaning the house, do the laundry, pack, show Jess’ dad how to feed our fish, get an oil change, etc.

I wish I had thought ahead and had requested today off. That way I could have been at least helping get stuff done, rather than sitting here trying to figure it all out. Luckily we got a lot done between last night and this morning. The cats are at the vet (they also board animals), the last of our X-mas shopping has been done, I got most of the programs I need for the computers downloaded, I got the laptop charged, etc.

Okay, enough with all my pre-vacation worries… let’s see, what else is going on around the house? Jess is having me redo her blog, since she likes the way mine turned out (it will be similar to mine, but not exact)… so that should be done later today. Since we’re talking about blogs, I updated to WP 2.0RC3… very very nice! It took only about 2 min to setup, and another 4 to redo some custom settings! I love a lot of the new features, so if you’re thinking about upgrading, go for it!

Now then, onto the fish (and fishlike creatures)… Levi has eaten about half of his old shell, so I can stop wondering about that. When we get back I’ll have to take some new pictures of him… he’s gotten quite large. The Bettas are still doing fine, though I worry about their water while I’m gone. I’ve been doing 50% water changes every 2-3 days or so, and we’ll be gone about 5. I’ll have to test it when I get home and see how bad it is (I last changed it on Sat Morning, so it’s been 4 days), hopefully it won’t be that bad so I don’t have to worry about them. The other fish are also doing fine… the Corries have gotten quite big, and are doing great. The only fish I worry about in there are the Glo-Fish™. They have the tendancy to chase each other around and I don’t really know why they do it. I’ll have to do more research on it.

And last (but not least), the cats. We checked them out before we left this morning… Kisa’s eye is doing much better with the eyedrops, and Mishka is doing good as usual… let’s hope they come back from the vet that way (last time Kisa came back with worms, ugh!).

Okay, that’s about all the time I have for now, need to get back to work. Feel free to talk about your upcoming holiday vacations… hopefully they’ll be great! Next post will either be from FL, or when I get back (hopefully I’ll have some new pics for my gallery)! :)



+ Vacation ≠ Rest By Jason 19 December 2005 at 1:06 pm 134 views 2 Comments

Well, we have three more days till we’ll be heading down to FL… I feel like we’ll never be ready. We still have to clean the house (water is once again out today), do some laundry, etc… and if that’s not all I should have to worry about, it seems our kitten (Kisa) has developed conjunctivitis (pinkeye). Lovely. :(

I swear, you should be allowed to get a bonus vacation after you ever take a vacation that involves going anywhere further than your front door.

On the bright side (and a completely different subject), our lobster (Levi) moulted again… although he doesn’t seem to want to eat his old shell this time. I wonder why? Also, the snails are back to being healthy and since I just did about a 50% water change in their old tank, I may put them back. Now, not to leave anyone out, NoName (the rescue betta) is doing excellent and looks like he’s going to make it. His fins are regrowing some and he no longer has any stress lines. :D

Okay, well I need to get back to work (and back to finishing this blog… I should hopefully launch it before I leave), so that’s all the posting you get for today.



+ Vacations Sure Are Lovely By Jason 05 January 2004 at 10:39 am 72 views No Comments

Just an update for all of you. I’ve been on vacation during the last week so any of your e-mails you sent weren’t replied to until today. Sorry about that, everyone! Besides that, everything is coming along fine, and we hope to have AutoPatcher 2000 out this month, along with AutoPatcher XP Jan Update.

Also, to those who have donated and/or sponsored us… thank you very, very much!!

(Ed. Note - This is from my old AutoPatcher news blog)