I moved the washer and dryer out of the laundry room and cleaned the floor in there. Tomorrow morning our new machines will be installed.
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I moved the washer and dryer out of the laundry room and cleaned the floor in there. Tomorrow morning our new machines will be installed.
Last meeting day for my face to face class. From here on it's grading projects, back assignments, and exams.
The delivery guys hooked up our new washer and dryer this morning and hauled away the old units. Then Leo came over and we played with him for a while.
Long day today. Had to wait about 3 hours while they replaced the serpentine belt to my car and I'm awaiting the flood of back assignments and take home exams coming in the rest of this week and next.
We woke up a little before 3 am in order to make a flight to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Both planes actually pulled back a few minutes early. We even scored exit row seat for the second leg.
got a lot of playing in
We went to the beach in the morning.
Got my green telecaster back from the guitar tech. I thought it played good before.....he told me I have 6 guitars and none of them are dogs.
Crunch time now. Grading exams and projects and trying to get everything done before grades are due next week.
We’re packing up the hotel room and will be boarding the cruise ship soon.
Had some hard egg nog today, been playing the white guitar and writing.
We stayed on board the ship and got some sun … before and after the torrential downpour.
We walked around the shops near the port in St. Kitts for a bit and then went back to the ship.
The usual working day, slow and tenuous. But I'm getting to work on a friend's computer and upgrade it. He thought he was getting a new computer, a little Dell Inspiron 3505, mediocre quad core 2.1 Ghz. But it was essentially a stripped down dumb terminal. No storage drive, extremely small boot drive (256 Gb)with virtually nothing on it and only 19 Gb free space left, along with just 8 Gb RAM? Ouch..... No wonder the thing didn't work for him. He'll need a lot more memory, a bigger M.2 stick for the boot, and a good storage drive. Fortunately, he's not going to be doing any gaming, movie streaming, high intensity graphic work, or number crunching of any kind. Just word process, spreadsheet, email, and surf the net. So once I upgrade it, it'll do for him.
playing guitar and writing
Grading projects and exams and figuring out final averages. Grades have to be submitted Thurs. morning, so it's crunch time.
Soaking up the Caribbean sunshine.
Well since it's a cold drizzle right now, we are just enjoying the fire and stuff
So mad. We wanted to walk around the shopping area at the port here in St. Lucia, but when we looked outside we saw two other ships docked there. We, meanwhile, are docked across the harbor at a container terminal, with nothing to do.
Docked at the container port again, but that’s par for the course in Barbados.
Did my laundry; worked on my Christmas ornaments; brought in the trash cans after the trucks came by. Still recovering from a tooth infection I had early this week. I have a broken tooth in my lower left jaw - a molar, to be precise. It's been broken for sometime now. On Sunday night, it started to ache again, so on Monday I managed to get in and see my dentist. He took a look, and informed me that I needed a root canal, then prescribed me some antibiotics for the infection. We set up an appointment for the R.C. (Monday the 19th), then I went home. After filling the 'scrip, I began to take the pills, but boy, did my tooth ACHE!! The pain was so bad Monday evening, it felt at times as if my head would split wide open. Finally, the medicine began to take effect, and I was able to sleep that night. It hurt much less on Tuesday, and I'm still taking the pills (Amoxicillin, 500 MG, every 8 hrs. until the pills are all gone) along with extra-strength Tylenol for the pain. But since it was an infection, it's left me feeling somewhat run-down, as if I had a cold or the flu. I'm just taking it easy, and not pushing myself while I feel this lack of energy.
These next two weeks are going to be crazy for me - next Wednesday, my car goes into the shop to have the rear brakes serviced; then the following Monday I have the root canal. Not to mention Christmas shopping, and ornament-building! Pain in my mouth, and pain in my wallet - not sure which is worse right now.
Although I will say that the pain I felt from this infection is the WORST pain I've ever felt in my entire life - even worse than I felt when I broke my elbow back in March of '07 on the ice on my employer's parking lot. This pain was so bad, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. It was just excruciating.
But I'm feeling better now; and I'm just going to soldier on.
Yeah, you need to get those broken teeth fixed quickly, TWD. That's what happens if you have to wait. Sorry you have to go through that. Today I helped my DM with his computer. He's the best DM in the world, but he is clueless when it comes to computers. He thought he got a new computer for nothing, un til he showed it to me. It was nothing but a dumb terminal with no storage capacity, a tiny boot drive just barely big enough to hold the operating system and only 8Gb RAM memory. It had been used in an office for exactly that, a dumb terminal accessing a server somewhere. I upgraded it for him. I got a new M.2 boot stick of 1 Tb, cloned the OS to it, put that in, put in a 2 TB SSD for storage, and increasd the RAM to 16 Gb. It now is good enough for his needs, and it only cost about $300. Now it's essentially about a $700 computer. It won't play games worth a damn, but it'll do what he needs it to do.