And now to reset the CMOS because of course I had to disconnect the battery.

Recovering from just having to disassemble my laptop to figure out why it suddenly started making a crackling sound. Why did HP make it so the whole back had to be removed to get to the fan?
And of course I now have to do it again because I found 4 screws I didn't remember removing, and 1 tiny one I dropped.

A strange feeling from a SMS convo.
"Her gift is under the tree"
And all I have in my head now is her grabbing a shovel and saying she was ready to get her gift . . .
Context is important.

Me to my wife on the way out the door to a face-to-face class (middle school):
Be glorious, be safe, burn with the light of 1000 suns because viruses do not like fire.

And in 5 minutes, I'm already lonely.

In her defense, the long holiday weekend just started a few hours early because the software they use to run classes is having an outage.

Wife: I don't know which cordless phone this is, and where it goes.
Me: I don't know which one does it say on the screen.
Wife: there isn't a screen.
Me: all of the cordless have screens
Wife: this one doesn't oh wait, doh!

My wife: the mouse isn't working.
Me: let me get batteries for it.
Wife: oh, wait, I just had it wrong side down

Happy Friday.

Looking at how the Eastern Virginia Health District has dealt with the COVID-19 numbers, the backlog was either someone trying really hard to keep schools open and they couldn't hold back anymore. Or they really didn't want to do Thanksgiving at their inlaws. Either way, schools are virtual till some time in December.

Since Zeta ran through here I've had to deal with two power outages. And I've found that all my backup batteries need replacing. I've also found out that my home router tries to serve DHCP in the first few minutes after a reboot until it remembers not to.
And for some reason it gave my file servers IP to a Chromecast. At least I didn't lose the Pi running the file server.
Ok, I'm dont venting now. Thanks for listening.

Creamy Mouthfeel

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I need 2 things right now.
1 can someone please tell me WHY it feels like Sunday night right now?
2 how do I make it stop?
Thank you!

The sound of a sportscar on a 3/4 mile road with no lights or other traffic controls, stuck behind a school bus.

I mean, 6 hours without power, ending up sleeping into start of day because the clouds blocked the sun and I had to send an email like what the comic shows.
Yup, the universe is just mocking me.

Ever get the feeling the universe wants you to take things personally and is just mocking you?

Well, this is fun. Power company app says 10 houses are having an outage. And we may see power back between 01:00 and 06:00 EST.

Oh joy. The power just went out.

My wife turned the TV on and Frozen was playing (yes, that song). One button press and we go from "the cold never bothered me anyway" to "and that's the weather in the tropics"

Looking at my news feed this morning and it strikes me that after 2016, the protests against Trump were attempts to keep him aware that there was a majority of citizens who wanted him to remember them, and hopeful the admin would lead all of the republic.
The protests against Biden are a minority that demand that we ignore an even larger majority voice has stolen their election. And all they can do is throw tantrums in public.

Have the forces that swear up and down they are patriots who love the Constitution, the flag and democracy started their coup to protest the election results yet?