On the PC front …<\/p>\n
Forward <\/em>… touched bases with the PC tech working on my machine, trying to replace the drivers on the hard drive to support said drive.<\/p>\n Back <\/em>… he reports that the drive is now no longer responding to anything, regardless of the drivers. This is a new drive.<\/p>\n Forward <\/em>… he’s been in touch with IBM.<\/p>\n Back <\/em>… IBM says they have no more of the drives, nor do they have any of the substitute parts.<\/p>\n Prognosis<\/strong>: Further back-and-forth with IBM. Restoration of my My Documents directory from backup so that I can function again, probably without inadvertently overwriting anything. 85% likely that eventually I will need to rebuild the system. Again. <\/p>\n And on the home improvement\/drywall front:<\/p>\n Forward <\/em>… Drywaller, after having had his truck die on Monday, scheduled to show up on Friday.<\/p>\n Back <\/em>… No drywaller shows up on Friday.<\/p>\n Forward <\/em>… Margie contacts the drywaller’s boss, who is sure the guy is supposed to be there.<\/p>\n Back <\/em>… Boss man calls back to say the drywaller is evidently no longer working for him.<\/p>\n Forward-plus<\/em> … Would we like him to come out and begin work on the drywall on Monday (today)? We say yes, and, miracle of miracle, dude actually shows up.<\/p>\n Back-a-little<\/em> … Job will take three days. But it’s under way!<\/p>\n Prognosis<\/strong>: Job will be completed, save for the painting (and tile) this week.<\/p>\n Meantime, we never heard back from the folks who were quoting replacement french doors for us. Margie did a truckload of calling on Friday, and we got at least one pretty decent quote (albeit for more than Lowes was going to charge us, but then determined they couldn’t do), so we need to call htem and close up that.<\/p>\n And the Paint Police Lady no-showed coming over to approve our paint (and take back her chips), so we need to reschedule her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the PC front … Forward … touched bases with the PC tech working on my machine, trying to replace the drivers on the hard drive to support said drive….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6337,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/20\/if_it_werent_fo.html","url_meta":{"origin":6283,"position":0},"title":"“If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all …”","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Sep-04 9:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, Margie and I were chatting on the phone. \"Oh, the drywaller called.\" This is the drywaller who was supposed to come to our house today and tape and...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5264,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/15\/home_improvemen.html","url_meta":{"origin":6283,"position":1},"title":"Home Improvement","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Apr-04 10:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Slow, but steady, progress on the Big Projects. 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