Lots Done, Not Much To Do
Jul. 28th, 2007 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
howeirdThe morning started out with A Plan™. It was all about the car:
Car wash
Oil Change
Get an estimate on a paint job
All three were done, though there was a bit of a wait for the last two items. The oil change folks said I have a leak, so tomorrow I'll probably take the car to the shop to have it looked at. The painting estimate came in at $600, which is about what I'd figured, but the 5 days in the shop was a bit more than I thought it would need. Not a huge problem, but a rental will add some more to that tally.
More to do today - change the litterbox and do the laundry. The next Dr. Who DVD arrived yesterday, along with three Netflix rentals, but I may bring those with me to Seattle and watch them on my laptop in the hotel.
Vista has stopped putting my computer to sleep when I hit the sleep buttons - on the keyboard or on the main unit, or in the windows menu. This is very annoying, as it was working Friday. I suspect it may have something to do with dual boot, because it started messing up after I'd booted to XP, which is where I am now, because I am slurping up video from Tivo, and Tivo has not seen fit yet to update their software to support Vista. I'll probably not spring for the newly lower-priced HD model until they fix that omission.
Anyhow, I have checked all my power settings, and even tried creating a new one, but nothing has worked. And it still keeps forgetting my "no password on wake-up" setting. Highly annoying, and something I consider a show-stopper. QA should have caught this early, as it's a basic Vista function and one of the more popular ones out there. When I worked at Sony, we had a series of QA tests for all the sleep/hibernate combinations, and beat them up pretty thoroughly. They worked well in XP SP2. I guess I'm more pissed off than usual because they broke something which had been working for years.
Time to spend Quality Time with my socks. L8er.
Car wash
Oil Change
Get an estimate on a paint job
All three were done, though there was a bit of a wait for the last two items. The oil change folks said I have a leak, so tomorrow I'll probably take the car to the shop to have it looked at. The painting estimate came in at $600, which is about what I'd figured, but the 5 days in the shop was a bit more than I thought it would need. Not a huge problem, but a rental will add some more to that tally.
More to do today - change the litterbox and do the laundry. The next Dr. Who DVD arrived yesterday, along with three Netflix rentals, but I may bring those with me to Seattle and watch them on my laptop in the hotel.
Vista has stopped putting my computer to sleep when I hit the sleep buttons - on the keyboard or on the main unit, or in the windows menu. This is very annoying, as it was working Friday. I suspect it may have something to do with dual boot, because it started messing up after I'd booted to XP, which is where I am now, because I am slurping up video from Tivo, and Tivo has not seen fit yet to update their software to support Vista. I'll probably not spring for the newly lower-priced HD model until they fix that omission.
Anyhow, I have checked all my power settings, and even tried creating a new one, but nothing has worked. And it still keeps forgetting my "no password on wake-up" setting. Highly annoying, and something I consider a show-stopper. QA should have caught this early, as it's a basic Vista function and one of the more popular ones out there. When I worked at Sony, we had a series of QA tests for all the sleep/hibernate combinations, and beat them up pretty thoroughly. They worked well in XP SP2. I guess I'm more pissed off than usual because they broke something which had been working for years.
Time to spend Quality Time with my socks. L8er.
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