[AGL] philosophical dog

[Gerry]

Way to go, Mike! Sounds like you a fine machine. It's never as easy as it looks at the start...Murphy's law.

I went through Holy Hell with my Asus barebones about 6 months after I put it together. The sound went out. Could not solve it, neither could my son who is pretty good at fixing gizmos. Finally sent the MB back to Asus just before the warranty ran out. They fixed it. Once I got it back together I left it alone, haven't touched it since, still works fine...but I did buy a used ThinkPad which is loaded with my software and ready to go should the Asus fail again...

Why aren't you rebuilding that 301i Beemer in the shop?

Too much bending over and crawling around in tight places and banging up hands which no longer tolerate grease and solvents. Old frame doesn't bounce back as quickly as it once did. Can't see up close stuff so well. Don't have all the tools I once lugged around. Developed a fondness for old Toyotas. Found a good mechanic from Texas who lives up the road about 5 miles who is good company, young, and can fix most anything.

My shop is now a greenhouse. I design with plants, for food, decoration, and ambiance. Currently have in blossom: a bed of Night-scented Stocks (little lavender flowers with heavenly aroma in the evenings and night time and early mornings, just outside the window) and a large (10' tall) Mexican shrub which puts out a profusion of tufts of small white flowers this time of year with a sweet subtle aroma. Soon to come, Datura, loveliest of blossoms (see Georgia O'Keefe) from a bush which returns annually from a big root that I protect and nourish in a corner of the bed and also has a subtle but lovely smell.

Different strokes for older folks...
G



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Eisenstadt 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s ; Trey Spaw ; joeben at yahoo.com 
  Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 6:19 AM
  Subject: [AGL] philosophical dog


  Gerry,

  Why aren't you rebuilding that 301i Beemer in the shop?

  Assembling PCs are so finicky. Yesterday I installed an operating system on the 
  120G harddrive Trey gave me. He also gave me the Pentium 4 2.66Mhz mainchip, 
  the nice case, and a junk motherboard and memory he bought at Frye's. Took 
  months to figure out what was broken here, the motherboard? the memory? the 
  main chip? the harddrive?

  As Gerry knows, half of so called diagnostics is just replacing with a known 
  good part and see what happens.

  Long story short, bought a used Asus motherboard on Ebay and a 512Mb stick of RAM
  through Amazon, installed operating system yesterday. but this morning the BIOS 
  menu was frozen. Now that is some bad s**t. happy to report that after disconnecting
  harddrive, CD drive and legacy floppy drive, i was able to change the boot up sequence
  in the BIOS. did i say finicky?

  Plato said that dogs were the most philosophical animal.

  Mike

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