Whoops.

Hmmm... you know what would be embarrassing? If you spent all this time and money on upgrading your laptop, only to realize that you just needed to blow the dust out of a few parts and to re-seat a couple components? Yeah. That would be sort of embarrassing. But it would be a good learning experience.

So I spent all this money on buying a new hard drive, and buying a USB hard drive to transfer all of the files. And it worked. I got this 100MB hard drive into my old laptop. And it was working fine. For about an hour. Then the same symptoms came back. It would just freeze, and then when I tried to power up, it just wouldn't kick in. Needless to say, I wasn't happy. That was when I looked a few manuals and stuff. Turns out that it could be an issue w/ the DIMM chips being loose. I was a little red-faced, but not too proud to give it a shot. I think that it worked. My ol' T22, just needed to have someone re-install the memory chips. The thing is running great right now.

It almost makes the T30 that I bought seem frivolous. But hey, there's always that tax refund, right? Not a big deal. I wanted to have another computer around, since my desktop is like 6 years old, and I got a decent deal on it.

Oh well. I never said that I was a computer genius. In fact, I think that I know just enough to give myself a headache.

As a side note, I've installed a counter on this page, as well as on http://kitchenchairman.blogspot.com , the companion site to this blog. Now we get to see if I have any lurkers here, and we can try to see who checks this page out w/out leaving comments. I also get to test out the theory that people are more interested in what I eat and what I cook than in the rest of my life (which admittedly, has been sort of blah of late).

Anyway, it's almost time for bed - going to Chicago to watch the Sweet 16 tomorrow. I-L-L... I-N-I!!!

-RG