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June 16, 2007
We drive and arrive
Millie and I stopped in Raphine, Virginia last night. We were about 7 hours into the trip and decided that 3 a.m. was about as late as we wanted to stay up driving.
We hit the road this morning around 10 a.m. with Millie behind the wheel. I had a notebook computer in my lap that was having problems and spent a portion of the drive installing a new hard drive and operating system (IT never sleeps).
The notebook was plugged into an inverter as was the special gizmo I was using to power the old hard drive. The goal was to move as many of the files off the old drive to the new drive via a USB connection.
The old drive was having problems (hence the replacement) of such a severe nature that my sister, who is not an IT person, was led to say, "That doesn't sound good." The that of which she was referring was a high-pitched pulsating screech.
And she was right: It didn't sound good.
In the end I was able to "see" the old drive and directory via the USB connection but I wasn't able to transfer any data.
Millie and I rolled into Williamsburg around 1:30 and were eating and having a beer by 1:35.
Jim's house was full of people and food and we spent a pleasant afternoon (the weather could not have been better) hanging out, visiting, and sitting very little (I had a bad case of car-seat ass that was killing me.)
Millie (my sister), Josh (my nephew), Jim (my brother), Beth (my sister-in-law). My sister would want you to know that she'd just slathered moisturizer on her face; it isn't always that slippery looking.
Posted by delmer at June 16, 2007 10:47 PM
Comments
She could have been "IT". My "IT" guy at work is full of technical jargon like "that can't be good", "how'd you do that?", and "let me make a few calls". Those are the ones I can quote in this family setting.
Posted by: Rob at June 19, 2007 3:53 PM
I played cards with some IT guys at one of the big local universities. Apparently they use a lot of, "I'll do an NSLOOKUP and see what turns up."
I fall back on "did you reboot" too often. I've got to start mixing it up.
Posted by: delmer at June 19, 2007 5:37 PM