September 29, 2012

  • The Beast, The New Computer And The Wedding Pictures

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    I told you the other day about the Beast's computer.  He crashed it somehow and couldn't even get into his Bios.  So he got on the computer, went to his favorite site for computer parts and ordered a new motherboard plus a few more things he knew he would need.  Oh, and a new hard drive.  The hard drive holds about a gazillion bits or so.  I forget what he told me it was exactly but it's a hell of a lot of information.  He could probably store the Encyclopedia Brittanica on it.

    He likes the computer parts site because they give you free overnight delivery if you order a certain amount.  Since he found the site, he's never paid a dime for any delivery.  I'm just saying.  Hell, the hard drive alone gave him that but...I have to tell you, I was skeptical about that part until I looked at his notification from the company and he really DIDN'T pay a dime for the delivery plus at 2:30pm the following day, the parts were here! 

    He put the new computer together and used some of the parts from the old computer for the new one (he had bought a new cabinet for it too.  It's really nice.  Especially since it has the USB slots at the top of the front instead of the bottom.).  He got it all together and....it wouldn't work.  He was .  So he started going through it and discovered the power supply was bad.  Guess where the power supply came from?  You got it!  The old computer.  So, on a hunch, he put the bad power supply into our spare computer and it acted the same way the Beast's computer had acted when he figured he had crashed it.  Now he's decided to go ahead and put the old computer back together with a new power supply and we will then own TWO spare computers.  I'm just glad he was able to discover that it was the power supply or he would have driven me nuts with his bitching.  Here's the real kicker.  He's done this more times than I can tell you...mostly about A/C problems he'd found when we had our company.  He went to bed with the problem on his mind and woke up with the solution!  I kid you not.  I'm just glad he's got it up and running now.

    He started working on the wedding pictures from our granddaughter's wedding on the 15th.  He takes really nice pictures.  He asked me to come in and take a look at one of the pictures he's doing up for the kids.  I mentioned that I thought the groom's face looked a little bit red to me.  He told me that he didn't really know if the picture we were seeing on the monitor was the picture we would get because he hadn't adjusted the monitor yet to Photo Shop that he'd put on the new hard drive.  I can't figure out why he would even start on the pictures without doing that first but he was anxious to at least get the pictures set up for printing and wait until it got dark outside before he adjusted the monitor.  When he printed out the picture, it turned out just fine.  I told him that he should wait until he had all the pictures done for the kids and then give them to the Princess.  She can drop them off to them since she stops in there at least once a week when she is at school in Athens.  They live close to the school.  He said he hadn't even thought of that. 

    They supposedly had a professional photographer there taking pictures but no one took pictures of anyone at our table or us either.  All the pictures seem to have been ones that Raven took or one of the other guests that we knew.  I'm going to be curious to see what pictures they DID take once the kids get them.

    The Beast did something really nice for me.  I had mentioned the other day that I would love to have several spare pair of reading glasses to put here and there (like one pair in each car) for those times I forget to grab my normal pair or, heaven forbid, I lose the pair I have that I really like.  This conversation came about because the Beast had three pair that he has in different spots.  He keeps one pair on his desk for when he's on the computer; another pair he put in the glove compartment of the car he drives most of the time (mine) and the other is always on the kitchen table where he sits when he's reading most things (a magazine, Reader's Digest, the newspaper, etc.).  He told me he bought them at the optometrist's store inside Walmart and they were inexpensive.  I've been buying mine off the rack in the pharmacy and they are NOT cheap there.  That's when I said I would love extras IF they didn't look like the ones the Beast bought for himself.  He looked and found some that are definitely feminine.  It's a 3pk and there is a blue pair, a black pair and a reddish pair.  All three of his are black.  They also don't have the decorations that mine do so I doubt we will mix ours up.

    I'm going to drive Chewlee nuts when she's here because I will hide the other two pair and, when she's not looking, I'll change to a different color.  Since she notices things like that, she will go nuts.  It will be fun.

    Got to go now.  Love you all and I wish you a great Sunday.  I'm hoping for some good television but that's probably a hopeless cause.  At least I got to watch some Godzilla movies on the Sony Movie Channel all afternoon.  I hadn't seen two of them and I thought I had seen them all.    Be good, be happy and enjoy your day.