I managed to stay up until about 03:00 last night, but then I got up at 07:45; I'm still trying to figger out if that was a good move or not.
I'm hoping that I'm still tired enough to go to sleep for several hours this afternoon and evening. By the way, that yawn in todays picture is real.
Anyways, after I got up and had most of the first pot of coffee, I went out to a computer repair place in Pauline, a suburb of Topeka to the south. They have used parts, and I got a fairly decent PCI video board for ten bucks. It was raining this morning, with a little snow mixed in early, and my drivers-side windshield wiper came loose while I was on the highway going out. There's a little metal tab that holds the wiper on the blade, and it was gone...
So I came home and put the board in, and the computer still didn't work. I fiddled around with it for a while, and I discovered that the PCI cards weren't fitting down in the slots properly, and I had to pry the motherboard up with a curved kelly clamp while I seated them. Now everything worked great. I also installed the video capture card, so you all could have a picture today. Aren't you lucky.
I didn't realize that they could vaccinate against hoof and mouth disease. So why the hell haven't they done that all along? It really appears that their troubles are of their own making. They say that they can't tell a vaccinated animal from one that wasn't vaccinated.
So, can they not keep records? Do they not have computers, or maybe just pens and paper? Or maybe just vaccinate everything in sight? Do it twice if there's still a doubt. Yeah, most sheep look alike, but they have tags and ear notches and why can't they figger this thing out? Are they just stupid? Is the cost of vaccination that prohibitive? Probably would be a lot less expensive than killing all of those animals and burning them.
Some silly stats... we're moving towards the #15 spot with the Seti at home program, with 1970 units processed and 5.38 years of processing time. Exciting, huh? And... I'm still at 87% win rate on Free Cell, with 2200 games played. Even more exciting, my minimum time is now at 56 seconds. Cool, huh?
14:20... time to try to sleep now.
so I removed the blade and burned the plastic enough to hold in in place and re-installed it. Works just fine now.