Just letting you know I'll might (or might not) be off the machine for a while, or at least slowing down. Main computer died two days ago. Under warranty, but,.... so far: take apart, vacuum, worked for a day or two then flakey again, call Intel. Go down to basement Monday night and discover some areas had 1/2inch water. Fortunately, we'd seen evidence of water damage and put everything on 1/2inch plywood when we moved in last spring; lots of moving boxes and mopping, but the water only got through the corners of one box. And we weren't sure if the towels would last the night, so wake at 2am to check. Took Tuesday off to tear out the drywall and insulation off one wall; not as bad as it could have been, we'd already torn out the musty carpet and half the drywall before moving in. Good news is there's a very obvious crack that will be injected next week. And the other cracks were fine, so the regrading and patching we did last summer may have worked. It's another 15 years before we'll have the money to finish the basement, by then we'll know how dry it really is. Tues night, in a fit of being nice to me, with brain lacking sleep, ignore me saying come to bed, he follows Intel's instructions: take apart again, disconnect all inside bits, let sit twenty minutes to reset BIOS, reconnect and count beeps to get diagnostic code, eventually gave up 'cause there weren't no beeps. Wednesday take it into work to check if something's grounding wrong and make yet another backup. Call Intel, they are sending "shipping package". Wed night through Fri morning, connect backup drive to ancient backup machine, -- the old one, soooo slow, and, while I've got all the data and email profiles, it's not worth the time to get them all restored here, then re-restore them to the better machine when it returns. Would like a working printer, though. If not for being contact for the storytellers, and having some bills in email, I'd ignore the computer and unpack the china from the move, or do the taxes. To do eventually: use above-mentioned shipping package to ship motherboard to the States, wait while they look at it and decide whether to send cheque or exact (or similar) replacement, install what they send us, call MicroSoft and convince them it's the same computer despite new serial number of motherboard, and then restore the backup. And I was just thinking I had a dozen hours this month for computer projects, sigh. Cricket

Good grief. Sounds like you need to lie down somwhere for a short time.

Wow, Cricket! *hugs* Hope things calm down for you a bit, and you finally get your computer time... we'll miss you while you're out of commission...

Hope things work out for the better Cricket... won't be the same here without ya!!!

At least Cricket didn't get logged out and freaked out like I just did.

We had to replace a motherboard in one of our PCs recently, and Microsoft were fine about believing it was the same computer.

your here with us now Metalliant...

Only in body Gatchgirl, only in body but never in mind.

Originally posted by meridianday We had to replace a motherboard in one of our PCs recently, and Microsoft were fine about believing it was the same computer.

What about the fatherboard, sonboard, daughterboard, etc boards?

Haha ha Metalliant... if there were all them other boards on a computer the world would really be a scary place.... Also why are you only here in body... afraid we would corrupt whats left of your mind.....

What mind. I need the room for beer.

*smirkgrinchuckle* I am so enjoying the rapport between you Metaliant and Gatchgirl ! thumbs up to both of you! Grin. As for cricket, yes weve ALL been in computerhell. Im sure where there's a will there WILL be a way.

IMAQTZ. where have you been. We missed you. The rubber room hasn't been the same without you, yeer know.

Thats true Metalliant... It has not been the same... So Metalliant are you ready to be by Imi and I.... muwawawawa!!!!!!!!!!!!

cute evil chuckle G girl.

I think Metalliant is scared and hiding Imi!!! Not sure why could it be the threat of or

No probs Ggirl, get the drinks out, This guy cant resist anything alcoholic, he'll follow the fumes..nothing Scares our studly Metal Man, well nothing but Ceps seafaring Chicken....

Fear the chicken!

and beare of my army ladies.

Originally posted by Cep Fear the chicken!

Oh, I lssssooooo love roast

A roast it shall be then

on no! do not even attempt to raost this chicken, fear it I tell you...I mean who the heck do you think supplies us with all these shurikens and Rubber Room tickling feathers ??!!

Or better yet and the just don't it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trust me you dont want to mess with polly, a chicken tharr be but a deadly one no less.

Why on earth do you call the chicken Polly?

Aye, it's a pirate chicken! Eats crackers, sits on Cep's shoulder, lays eggs (pieces of 8 not half-dozens).

Im just wondering who has the unenviable job of cleaning up Polly's mess on our Pirate's shoulder?

Polly knows to clean up after i'self Besides Polly knows I'll replace with Gerard the French Duck otherwise.

Oh my gawd!!!! I had to watch this one several times to be sure of what it's doing!! Did you know you can get bird nappies/diapers? Probably not in chicken size but I remember finding some years back, they're a sort of flight suit for pet birds. The idea is that the bird wears this sort of harness thing and there's a bit that goes under the bird's poopy area to catch the poo. Hah, I just googled for these and there's a whole online store devoted to the things. Bird Fashions. I would be impressed to see any bird owner come away from getting their bird into one of those easter bunny costumes with all their fingers still attached to their hands. So now, picture Cep with his pirate chicken on his shoulder in a flightsuit bird diaper in the easter bunny version. Aye, it'll match well with the captain's cocked hat.

Well, the site did have a very few pics of the suits being worn. Very few.

Originally posted by meridianday Aye, it's a pirate chicken! Eats crackers, sits on Cep's shoulder, lays eggs (pieces of 8 not half-dozens).

Chicken eats crackers? Now that's crackers. At least we can have boiled egg, scrambled egg, poached egg etc etc.

Aye! Cep loves his eggs!

I love my mum's cheese omletes. I used to make them myself. I usually used 3 eggs.

with a dash of milk, grated cheese and some salt and pepper?

I like scrambled eggs and mushrooms

scrambled eggs we call "fluffy clouds" in our household. Softboiled eggs are known as "dippidy wippidies" . I feel sorry for any of son's friends that sleepover and are asked "would you like fluffy clouds or dippidy wippidies? " I do get a kick out of their reactions however. Grin

Originally posted by imaqtz with a dash of milk, grated cheese and some salt and pepper?

I never had milk or salt on mine, my mum probably used grated cheese, I didin't but I used slices of mature cheddar and I don't like peepers.