I have been drinking
coffee almost
every day for about a week now. This morning I have a
twitch in my right
eyelid. Despite
bedding down at
a reasonable hour (by 10PM) last night, rising was difficult as ever this morning; I got to work ~15 min late. That’s better than the last two days, 1.5 hr late TUE and .5 hr late WED.
Driving up
SR 17 North last night, I took a quick look at
Computer Renaissance, which was
closed. Odd, I thought, before 8PM, but maybe they close earlier than other retail stores would.
Today, in
daylight, I discover that they are not merely
closed, but really
most sincerely closed. The store is
empty but for a few forlorn display racks and tables. I will not be wrangling a small, cheap,
used hard drive here, and my hopes of obtaining a used
monitor or
printer are now
dashed. Well, there's always
ebay. Perhaps that's why Computer Renaissance is
permanently closed.
At "the other" CompUSA,
smaller and saner than the one I visited last night, I get a 10GB drive. This is the smallest drive they carry, and my
delight at the
wonders of technology (yesterday's
40GB drive) turns to
disgust. (I would be
quite happy with a 3GB drive, even a 1GB drive, I didn't want to
dish out another $100!) On the plus side, I discover why the power switch turns the computer on but not off: I had
misconfigured the
motherboard's
power management.
Continued tomorrow...