Not a happy camper

Yesterday morning after not sleeping all night I wiped the hard drives and reinstall Windows from an old version of Windows 10 I have. One computer, the XPS which I just added 64 GB of ram to, seemed to be going wonderful, with no hiccups or problems. Sadly the Inspiron computer just wouldn’t install windows or other programs correctly. So last night I went to bed about 9 pm. The XPS seemed ready for finial steps. That was last night when I shut them all down.

However this morning when I went to start the computers, the XPS refused to start windows. The computer started and the bios would work but windows wouldn’t start. It seems something was preventing the boot manger from working. Even trying to reinstall windows wouldn’t let the boot manager start. In fact when I install a new version of windows and I delete the partition set up by the last installation. However it was not deleting them and as soon as I tried to reinstall the partitions would reappear. Well I was not out of tricks yet. I pulled out another older version of Windows 10 and partitioned the C drive. I could have done it with the same USB Windows install stick I had been using but I worried if there was a problem with that USB stick software. Then installed the even older version of Windows. Then I took the newer version and repeated that. Then spent an hour setting up settings. However after spending the morning doing updates and even installing some licensed programs which I do at the last as some of them have a limit to how many times they can be installed. The full stop hard wall happened that screwed everything I had done on both computers.

Well shit and damn. I have a keyboard and mouse that works on three different devices so I have my keyboard set to each computer and my phone. My mouse I set the third device to what ever third device I am working on. But during all this I couldn’t get the flow system from the company to work. That moves the mouse from monitor / computer by going to the edge of the monitor so that I had to manually change the computer via a button on the bottom of the mouse. That meant I had to pick up the mouse and use the button every time I switched computers. That is not something I can keep doing. I race between computers hundreds of times an hour. So I sat here and thought. Each computer I dumped and reloaded and did the updates for hours over the last several days. I figured out a workaround. Since I had already done clean installs, I went into settings, to recovery and set both computers to “recover Windows from the cloud”, that would reset settings that were preventing my programs from working.

Yes, yes, yes! Well it worked. It is 3 pm and I am sitting here typing on the blogging computer and watching Sam Seder on the other. Once the recovery was done I installed the Logitech program for the mouse / keyboard which worked fine. Then I installed the Norton antivirus malware, then installed my VPN, Nordvpn with its anti-malware, advance browser protection, and ad and tracker prevention. So far everything is working grand.

I am on day three with 6 hours sleep. I stopped eating yesterday morning. Yes I am tired, yes I got sick to my stomach this morning. Yes my blood sugar got too low and I had to take glucose tablets. But when I am focused on a problem food and sleep wait until I get it all fixed. So all I have to do today is install all my licensed programs and clean the computers up.

One last thing. Several days ago an elderly lady I gave a printer to because she is poor and did not have one. It is a nice brother printer that in its day was expensive but I had bought a new one and it was in my hoarder closet of electrical parts / equipment gathering dust. The printer’s computer was in error mode with an unable to clean error. Sadly that is part of the built-in obsolescence of our for-profit businesses. The error is caused due to the sponge that the print head uses to clean itself after use so ink doesn’t run all over the desk and the floor. Since they don’t bother to put a sensor in the sponge it is much easier (cheaper) for manufactures to simply put in a number of pages that will shut the machine down. Once you get to that number the “brain” in the printer assumes the sponge is full. If you know the magical steps and the correct numbers to input, you can clear the number of pages back to zero and your printer works again. And tech people can charge you big money for doing this. Sadly I did not like that game years ago and even as poor as Ron and I are, I only took donations for my skills as a technician.

So either to your joy or bad disappointment after 3 days and 6 hours of sleep and only two meals even as Ron threatened to force feed me, I am back online with my computers fully running. Oh during the time I worked on the two main computers I had the big 55 inch TV in my office on the wonderful swing arm Ron mounted running off my Xbox One and a small barely able to function laptop that I used to write most of this. Hugs and loves to all. Scottie

Thank you to everyone who commented on my videos

A big thank you to everyone who commented on my YouTube videos. Unfortunately I just figured out how to see them so I answered them all from months back. Please keep making them and letting me know what you think of the quality and subject matter. Hugs

New Tripod and My Information 11 14 2024

Just some information about Ron trying to build me a camera stand and videos I want to post.

My newest avatar picture

My Day “last week”

Hi All! I have been out of it all day! Yes I can hardly type. I have not slept in days. Today after Ron went for a doctor’s visit and I was starting to do laundry I walked by the bed, fell into it, and passed out. I slept so hard that I never locked the doors. He came home and came into the bedroom and couldn’t wake me. He almost called 911. But after four hours I woke up. I have stumbled around the house. I did a few things. I managed to talk with Kamyk for a few minutes and threw up a few times. After a few times with Ron’s help I managed to make our covid / my flu shot appointments at a local Walgreens (not our own) for Friday. My allergy shot made my entire body itch horribly for days, today Ron insisted I take an

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It is 9 AM on Thursday, the next day. Sorry I dropped off before I could finish and woke up after I fell asleep. I feel so much better, woke at 5:30 am and got up at 6 with Ron. We had coffee, yes I went back to drinking coffee. I drink a smooth less sharp / less bitter coffee than him. So we make individual cups in the wonderful Cuisinart single serve premium coffee maker that wonderful Randy sent me when I was stress out about having a visitor stay in the house and I get up in the middle of the night and wouldn’t be able to have coffee. He bought this for my office so I could have coffee. So for days I have been not feeling well and not able to think. Now I feel better and ready to get to work. Today I got my new tripod for the cameras. After weeks of trying to make one Ron and I went on Amazon and bought the perfect one for less than 35 dollars. But I did save comments so I won’t lose them. So if you get a reply to a comment a week old don’t be surprised. Remember I love hearing what you have to say and I do care about the people who follow the blog. I love Ali and Randy for contributing their posts and thoughts. Best wishes. Hugs

Tomorrow I may be offline for a lot of the day.

My plan for tomorrow is to get one of the old barely running laptops out, and put all my saved tabs I have open with the pages that people made comments on it so I don’t lose them. Then I am going to take both computers offline and dump them. I will then dump both computers. See you then. Hugs

I am done and need a break.

All morning I did the three Sunday shows I watch. This Week, Meet the Press, and Face the Nation. Ranted while I wrote stuff to refute and talk about pushed by the republicans on the panels and interviewed as they crowed about how this was a clear mandate for them to take the country so far right the Puritans would be scared to come here. I stopped writing figuring I had recorded all of these shows. Then I spent an hour while listening to them trying to figure out how to record them from one computer to the other as I really need to change my desk configuration and have already ordered the ram to do drastically help one of my computers. Sadly my main computer is maxed out. I should have known better but it was on sale with great specs … so I bought it. Always. Yes always by a computer that is upwards expandable. I won’t make that mistake again. However even if I lose these recordings of the corporate media and on This Week Johnathan Carl was creaming his pants on the tRump win, so much for media impartiality, I need a break as Ron was telling me. So I am going to play Portal Two. It is a wonderful puzzle game using a portal gun to shoot an incoming portal and an outgoing portal. No shooting other players. This is a grand game for people not wanting to hurt others even in a game and for stretching the mind. If you don’t have a gaming console the game is also on PC, which is where I first played it. Hugs I am off to challenge my brain on more than politics. Hugs.

My thoughts after the election 11 7 2024

I talk about why I think Harris lost the election. What people heard and understood. Mistakes made from hiring people who keep running old playbooks to who was listened to on the ground. This is one of many videos I hope to make on this subject.

I just can’t today

Ron and I stayed up until 4 am watching the election results. We got about an hours worth of sleep. Then we got up and sat stunned. I am sorry this is going to take me a long time to understand and bounce back from. So many people of this country are so uninformed and so many thought sending a message by not voting for Harris would somehow be better for the Palestinians. What this means for Gaza and the West bank is no more restraints on Israel, no aid for Ukraine. More right wing ideologue justices who rule not by law but by ideology and feelings. Thomas and Alito have hinted that if tRump won and had the Senate they would retire so he could fill their seats with 40 year olds to be there for generations. What this means for other countries and our relationships with them … who knows. But what this means for the LGBTQ+ community is clear. We have large targets on us now. Sad hugs

Our bed!

About 4 or five years ago the mattress in our bedroom was totally destroyed. It was way beyond the use life. I am serious while both of us were much heavier than we are right now, while my side had a big hole where my body was his side had given up and was trying to run away. He had no side wall of the mattress and was trying not to fall on the floor. One night I got so upset I demanded an end to the bullshit and insisted he remove the mattress.

So instead of buying a new mattress he decided to remove the bed frame and instead put up a high air mattress we had for when we needed to go to the hospital during a hurricane and kept for visitors to sleep on. But that was too low for my hips and back and I was constantly struggling. One night as I was sleeping the value gave out and I ended up trapped in the bed, crying for help. James heard me and came down and got me up.

So Ron overcame his hate to spend money on his own comfort and realized we couldn’t do this. Now here is where our lives are different. I figured we would get a new bed frame, a storage bed I always wanted due to our abundance of stuff and lack of space to put it, and a normal mattress from the mattress stores that cost around $1,200.00

Nope, Ron listened to James who had just spend a large amount of money on a frame and mattress from the Purple company. So Ron told me to asked me to order the new king-size storage bed that was already very high, and he and James went back and forth over what mattress we needed for it. When Ron told me that the mattress was going to cost $4,000.00 I was shocked. I was like what about this or that one advertised locally. Nope he said we need this for you and your very painful bones. I tried hard to say my bones could deal … but he wouldn’t bend. So the king size bed frame I choose because of the storage and headboard space for $1,800 he added $4,000 grand for the purple mattress.

Now I was upset but decided if he insisted, I could live with it. But when the bed arrived and we set it up, it had a weight limit of … 300 pounds. But the new mattress that Ron bought was 300 pounds itself. So before Ron and James put the new mattress on the bed, Ron added a few under the bed supports and a couple large 2x4s to run down the length of the bed.

Move to this last week as Ron was frantically trying to figure out what was happening to our south sided wall outlets on a split circuit that seemed to go mostly to the south wall and a small part to my Pink Palace including his TV and player stuff. After we went to bed about 1 am we both woke to a huge … Bang, crack, boom. We did not realize what happened until he got up a few hours later after trying hard to stay in bed and hitting me in the face accidentally.

So after a few hours he gave up and got up. We took the mattress off. And Ron was shocked. All the support legs had twisted off, and the too thin boards had warped under the weight or broke. So Ron stopped replacing the outlets and electrical work he was doing for two days … We do have priorities and not sleeping on the floor is one of them. So he got his tools including his drill and saws out, and went to work. Sadly it was a time in the month when we only had $50 dollars in our account (yes we are now among the US seniors who are very poor) so he did not buy a sheet of 1/4 plywood which he feels would have fixed the problem, instead he grabbed all the different pieces of wood he had to patch things and promised me he would buy the plywood to fix it when I got paid.

Ron sadly tries to cheer me up by reminding me our life has become management by crisis. Great news. The bed is again very strong and comfortable … even able to stand … active seniors sex activities. Below are the pictures. Hugs and loves to all. And yes the drama of our grand life continues. Hugs