marlyse.comme, myself and my life
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
What happened?
It just was Monday, and now it’s just about to turn Thursday.
Today I got part of my life back… which had been gone since last Thursday. .
My G5.
My desktop computer - fondly called “G5″ - had decided last week to stop being just “on” and doing its job; the machine didn’t even visibly crash, but when I came into the office in the morning all was dark and remained dark, nothing could coax it back into life.
B. was so nice to haul it to the Apple store while I was working - coincidentally he had a machine’s video card go bad.
How empty and strange the office can be without these machines - and MANY degrees cooler. The main things these empty spots in the room showed though is the amount of cat hair we collect within just a few days - I am amazed that the computers don’t die more frequently.
A couple of years ago I already had a Canon printer die on me because one cat loved too much sleeping right on it and a ton of hair had collected within the machine until it no longer was able to function. This time, on the G5 the power supply died. Even though the support guy didn’t mention any accumulation of internal hair which could have caused this, I will not dismiss completely the thought of this being the possible cause.
Thus, one more time will I try to win the never ending battle of getting ALL cables OFF the floor and onto hooks (mounted below the desk surfaces) to battle some of the hair and dust and to allow vacuum cleaning in the area more frequently.
As we are constantly adding additional machines and external drives and this and that, cables are not a static thing but constantly evolving and moving and revolving and knotting up and thus I am very much aware that this last thought is probably in the same strata as a non-sticky New Years resolution, but I at least ought to try again!
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