I woke up Wednesday morning and my brand-new superduper gaming rig with nine colorful fans and a hum like a small airplane was unresponsive. No idea why, as it was working fine the night before — and into Wednesday, since the ladyfriend and I were binging Little Mosque on the Prairie. I tested outlets, switches, cords, etc. Anyhoo, I’m without my beast until at least Sunday (it’s two months old, so still under warranty), and given the “snow holiday” I didn’t have access to computers at work, either. Oh, I have my chromebook and phone, but It’s really not the same, Anyhoo, while trying to post the TTT list, I managed to overwrite a prior post from this year, and was too busy waiting for snow that was promised but never came. Montgomery got inches, but we got nothin’. The weather apps continued to promise snow all day, which was both amusing and exasperating. Here’s the tease:
The Buddhist point of view takes the function of work to be at least threefold: to give a man a chance to utilize his and develop his faculties;to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming assistance. (small is beautiful, E.F. Schumacher)
And now, WWW Wednesday!
WHAT have you finished reading recently? Nothing, actually — I’ve been preoccupied researching integrated library systems / library service platforms for class. Last week, though, I did finish Unsettling America and Strong Towns: The Book.
WHAT are you currently reading? small is beautiful, E.F. Schmuacher. Part of my re-reading project for this year
WHAT are you reading next? Possibly Goodbye, Darkness, William Manchester. Another re-read, but it’s been over twenty years since I read this memoir of the Pacific War. I also have several library books checked out, including Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear and Light-Eaters, the latter being about plants.
Reading Freely 
Nooooo, not the snow miss! It’s even more insulting when they’ve been promising it for days, and then it’s so close to you but still so far away.
And yikes to the computer failure! Glad it’s still under warrantee though, and hopefully it’s working again soon.
It was especially annoying because we missed snow the week before last — it was north. This time it was more to the south, but Montgomery (which is directly east of us) got several inches. Still a few more weeks left of winter, though…
I heard about the unusual snow in the South. Pity you didn’t get any!
Good luck with getting your PC sorted ASAP!
Thanks! At least I don’t have a major assignment due this time…
Nothing more frustrating than your computer going kaput, and for no apparent reason 😦
Especially when it’s not even two months old!
I shall classify you as a buddhawannabe until we see pictures of you w a shaved head and wearing a little orange robe!
Hope your pc is OK. Do you have backups or will you lose data?
This unit is brand new, so there was almost nothing saved on it. I have an external drive that the majority of my stuff was backed up to from my last computer.
Smart man!
I have managed to save the data on all but one of my computers to date. I have files from the early 2000s!
On the Buddhist thing — I read quite a bit of Buddhist literature in 2009/2010, and still have a copy of the Dhammapada I like to revisit from time to time.