September 16, 2012
Lockup Fix
A belated good morning! We got to sleep in bit since we went to Mass last night. Claire rode her bike to work. Michelle and I took the boys to DFE for breakfast. When we got home I put on last night's new Dr. Who A Town Called Mercy. Like last season it's always a bit funny to see The Doctor in the Old West wearing a Stetson and walking with a swagger into a saloon: “Tea, but the strong stuff. Leave the bag in.”
Michelle went grocery shopping. Timothy and I experimented with the new printer's more advanced features, like printing images direct from web sites like Flickr.
We've been seeing some random hangs on Timothy's netbook whenever it does anything "intensive". We ran some extensive memory tests, but that didn't show anything. Now we're trying this approach. It's seems to be helping a lot. No hangs even when he tried something that seriously kicks in the laptop's fans and would cause a lockup.
Just printed up my notes for next week's RCIA meeting. If Apple fanboys gush over their 'retina' displays (at 326 pixels per inch), what does that make my ol' Brother laser printer with its 1200 dots per inch? Uber-retina? I must say this printout looks darn sharp!
Spent the late afternoon doing some cleaning of the inside of my car with the vacuum, surface cleaner, and Windex. Some surfaces — like the door handles and the coffee cup holders — were pretty nasty. Afterward I dropped Claire off at driver's ed, the Sunday night class.
While Claire was at class I started to prepare for RCIA. After driving out to pick her up, I had her practice more stick shift driving on the way home. New driver, manual transmission, dark, curvy back roads with no overhead street lights? Anxious? Yes. You might say so.
We said family prayers when we arrived back home. After sending the boys to bed, I made some hot drinks for Claire and me as she finished her last bits of homework: hot chai tea flavored with Bailey's flavored creamer. Amazingly tasty. Good night all! It's Claire's last night as a sixteen year old. Where has the time gone?!
“Indeed someone might say,
‘You have faith and I have works.’
Demonstrate your faith to me without works,
and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.” — James 2
«Man! Martin Luther wanted to throw the Letter of James out for that verse!»