Well...  overall it has been a fairly crappy week

- Weather early in week was yet more snow...  last 3 days have been slightly above frezing, melting some of it, but it has brought heavy fog

- My one aunt died

- My one brother had dental surgery, and I've been running errends for him

- My one cat has been diagnosed with both kidney and liver problems, and is predicted to not last long.  She is fairly old though at just under 15 years

- I had caught up on all my normal workload at work, but due to a location in another part of the country being behind, my boss offered up my services to them...  after doing a bunch of stuff for them, it turned out they changed corporate policy, to where what I did, have the change come through sooner, would not have needed to be done at all.

- Today, one of the VCR/DVD players in the house died, the one in the living room...  This at least was almost a nonissue.  That entertainment system in the living room had one of the ITX MultiMedia Boxes I built back in November/December connected to it.  It can play DVD's fine, it just needs more time than I like to start them through DVD43 and autoplay.  It is just I built them mainly to play stuff across the network, music, music videos, downloaded anime/movies, etc...

Grrr...  and now the refrigerator is making noises...

I cleaned out the dust, and repositioned it.  The noise is lessened, but not stopped.  Tomorrow I think I'll take the back panel of the freezer off and see if I can see anything wrong, might turn it off and defrost it for a while as well...  modern refrigerators are not supposed to need that, but it could be the issue, since it seems it is the vents/fans in the freezer portion making the noise.

My mouse decided to go apeshit on me. Kept resizing my firefox window, sticking the mouse button, cursor jumping round the screen, refusing to click, left mouse button acting like right, and so on.

Switching usb ports seems to have cleared the problem, but so did reloading the driver when the problem first cropped up.

I finally have a decent post to write in here.

Didn't have enough internet access to post here before, but I live in Concepcion, Chile, the center of the 8.8 earthquake last weekend.

Well, I'm alive and well, and so is all my family thank God for it. We've had our share of problems since the government took almost 48 hours to decide to put the military on the street, which cause loots and massive civilian unrest in the zone.

We finally have power back, though water and food is still an issue. Just dropping by to say everything is ok.

It'll probably take a couple of weeks before I've got regular internet access over here, and it'll take months to have anything resembling a normal live back. Whatever service the earthquake or the tsunami didn't destroy, the rioting people made a damn good work in destroying, so no gas, no food, no water, no nothing.

At least I've got power & net running back again. It sure helps to keep your mind away of the horror outside.

Did volunteer work the first two days, but then my damned stomach acted on me and I had to stop... having a vicious colon does not suit well with not having a water supply after all.

Glad to hear you are alive and reasonably well.  All things considered it could have been far worse.


The posted death tolls I've seen so far for the Chile earthquake does not come close to the ones for the Haiti one several weeks ago.

@Otakkun: I didn't know you were in Chile, it must have been pretty hairy the last few days. Glad to hear things are starting to get better, though.

Re: Chile vs. Haiti, a lot of it I think has to do with the fact that Chile gets earthquakes fairly often so they are better prepared. Also, the infrastructure is better.

Yep, quakes are an everyday thing in here, it's just that those over 7.5 are quite rare. The one that happened in Haiti wouldn't have cause much damage in here, but this one was way too much for us. The tsunami didn't help either, nor did the stupid governmet (the first in Chilean history to not call on the military right after a mayor natural catastrophe ... with horrible consecuences).

Grrr!

My comp is crashing all the time.

The mouse and keyboard freeze, it doesn't boot right, and when I tried to use the recovery partion to reset it to factory conditions... the recovery process corrupted.

I need to get a new computer.

But, I can't find anywhere around here that will sell a computer with 32-bit os. They all sell 64-bit Windows 7 now. I need a 32-bit to run all my old games and devices.

I would prefer Windows XP, but they don't make those anymore.

My current computer is a HP Pavilion a820n, it lasted close to 6 years.

Now it's failing...

And the local Office Depot, where I got it in 2004 sometime, only sells 64-bit now.

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Imagine for a second you work in a fast food restaurant. You have a customer who's been patiently waiting for just a little too long, and your manager has noticed this, and has asked you to step it up a notch.

Do you:

A: Grill the customer's burger to perfection as an apology for making him wait.

or

B: Slap everything together without actually grilling a damn thing.

... It's B, isn't it, you lousy sons of bitches

Temperatures today reached 100°F. That is all.

On the plus side, I think I might have lost some weight thanks to all the sweating I did.

We're having difficulty breaking 60 here. Of course, cold weather means you burn more calories.

Sigh... my Subaru Legacy has been rear ended....

Thankfully... damage is all but nil. Surface wise *maybe* a couple chips in the paint.

I called insurance company and they set up an appointment to get it looked at to insure nothing underneath the rear bumper is damaged, but if not... then they are likely simply going to close the case, but surface wise, I see practically nothing wrong, no cracks, scraps, dents, etc...

Ditto for her car.

Lucky!  Always nice when accidents have very few bad results.

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Lucky!  Always nice when accidents have very few bad results.

Yeah...  I gave a over the phone recorded statement of how it occured to the insurance company already, and gave the info I took down at the scene.   I have an appointment to get the car looked at on Wednesday.

Regrettibly, while I know a lot about cars I'm not a mechanic, so I do not know for sure nothing is wrong underneath the bumper, but on the surface it looks pretty much fine physically, for sure no dents, dings, scrapes, ect....  It is/was raining, so there were a few tiny spots that could either be chipped paint, or merely dirt.  The airbags did not go off, nor any other warning lights.

It could have been a lot worse.

Hopefully, they will find nothing.

Except a somewhat similar incident that occured to me back in 1996, the last accident I was in was back in 1991 (combined damages to both cars in the incident was only to bumpers).  So I've a fairly clean history in regards to accidents.

I need to work on my Bachelor thesis, but I can't seem to motivate myself to actually do something about it.

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I named myself Frost before the forum became Icy, so it's not like I'm unimaginative. :p