Monthly Archives: March 2007

I thought some major component of my computer died.  Opened the case up, and the CPU’s heat sink was completely clogged with dust.  If you ever want to clean out a computer, I recommend using the hose attachment of your vacuum cleaner, with the brush attachment, if you have one.  The compressed air in a can just blows the dust all around your house.  A vacuum actually removes the dust.  If you have animals in the house, the problem is even worse.  Rabbit hair is very light and gets easily sucked into the computer.  If you must use compressed air,  you can use ‘shop air’ at 100PSI that is often used to power air powered tool.  Just don’t go ape sh*t and blow off some of the capacitors.

After cleaning of the heat sink, the computer is running good as new.  Just a few hours away from getting away.  It should be fun, and I would love one complete night of sleep.

This weekend we will be spending the first night away from the Glenn monster.  We are not going that far afield, just to Geneva/St. Charles area.  That way we will be close enough if we need to rush home, but far enough to relax for a night.

The record warmth here is just amazing.  It was 79°F yesterday and  78°F today!  Went for a walk at lunch and some flowers are starting to pop.  We are a few weeks behind Texas, but that is to be expected.

Today was the first time we had Glenn out in just a diaper and a onesie.  He was crawling like crazy all over the floor!  Tiffany took a nice video of him.  If I ever have the time, I will post it.

Poor Glenn (and us) have been very grumpy at night.  He woke up at 10:30 and didn’t go to sleep until after 12:15 A.M. There is a good chance he is teething for real now.  He is gnawing on teething rings like never before.  He uses to look at them as just toys, now he uses then as real teething devices. 

Work has been keeping me busy.  Had a send off to Greg on Friday.  Nothing disastrous today without him.  Hopefully it will stay that way. 

Happy 4th anniversary to Mr. Bush and his ill begotten war in Iraq.  Thanks for getting us $500,000,000,000
  in debt, wasting 3,217 American lives, and probably more than 150,000 Iraqis.  Mission Accomplished!

Video Test Page  Only go here with a fast connection!

This has to be my favorite package warning so far:

It was the wrapping for a Dell keyboard.  I wonder if it is safe to use around Glenn?