HP makes decent printers...

Dell for laptops

So much for FedEx delivering early today. Tracking updated went from Chicago to Indianapolis today.

Have a Dell laptop, HP purchase for my granddaughter.

FedEx lately has horrible service.

Most of my laptops are Dell. Haven't had any major problems with them. Also have an old Dell tower that I turned into a home a network server and media center, they have plenty of room in the case for expansion cards and adding hard drives.

Have a SFF desk top Dell that I turned into a Hackintosh (Mac OS running on a Dell). Haven't used it in a year or so, just wanted to see if I could do it.

Couple ASUS old laptops running Win 7 and collecting dust.

Black Friday Wally World Gateway laptop (I think Gateway is oned by Acer now). Nice little lightweight machine, pretty barebpnes, one step above a tablet. I think I paid $125 for it new.

Chromebook from ASUS that I bought off of e-bay to mess with Chome OS. 8 GB RAM, 128 SSD. Again, nice little lightweight machine with all one needs for average daily use. Bought it off of e-bay for about $150, new unopened from BestBuy. (I didn't know BestBuy had an e-bay presence).

Then, like a moth to a flame.... a guy that works in electronics dept at my Wally World gave me the heads up for Qty 3, 21" HP all in one's that they found on the back in the back room.

This thing

https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-All-in-One-Desktop-22-Intel-Celeron-G5900T-4GB-RAM-256GB-SSD-Blue-Windows-11-Home-22-df0013w/730657746

They were marking them down to put on clearance for $130. Why? I don't know... but I grabbed one before they put it out on the sales floor. It's not I like a need another computer but for $130, I couldn't pass it up. It's still in the box. I'll probably fire it up, get it's system updates, install some open source software stuff and donate it to the local boys and girls club in town.

I think I might need an intervention when it comes to buying computers that I don't need.

Trimmed a big tree in the backyard today and chopped all the big branches up so they will make a nice neat pile for bulk pickup day.

Then i sprayed an herbicide on the winter grass to slowly kill it off and let the summer grass emerge from it's slumber. Should take 3-5 weeks to die off, and since tempos are hitting the 80 (and more importantly my soil temps are over about 63), the summer Bermuda is going to want to wake up soon.

You are passing up a great opportunity to burn $hit in the fire pit while smoking a cigar, look up at the stars and contemplate the reason for life.

At least that's what I would do back in the day. Toddlers in bed after bath time, reading a couple books to put them to bed then me and the dog retire to the fire pit with a cigar. Listen to the wind, look at the stars, listen to the creatures of the night ruffling around at the tree line. Hopefully the mutt wouldn't run to the tree line to protect his "turf" and get sprayed by a skunk (happened 3 times, he didn't learn his lesson) or get ripped up by a fisher cat (almost happened once).


Tree eight NINE!

Got at least a week of burning $hit piled up. Looking forward to actually doing so

Morning, peoples

Mornin' dudes...

Mornin Ya'll.... spose to be sunny, but cold.. [ram27bat]

Good Monday Morning to All! It’s an overcast 45 degrees on the way to 64 degrees today.

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Monday morning folks. A nice 80 on tap and a busy week ahead. The Goodguys National car show, swap meet and autocross is this weekend so I need to get the Vette spiffed and we have relatives coming for about four days at the same time. Fugitives from the cold country that want to bask in the sun and see a few spring training games, hike the Sonoran desert and generally be out of the snow.

What's the old saying about visitors and fish?

Answer for Deadeye: “Fish and visitors stink after three days”


Morning one & all. [ram27bat]

If they stay as long as three days, that's called Squatting and Family are the hardest ones to remove!!! 🇨🇮

Exhaust tubing came back to Chicago after yesterday's trip to Indy.

Lets see where else it'll go before out for delivery.

Quiet and gray day so far. Forecast calls for a nor'easter tonight and all day tomorrow. Rain coming followed by heavy winds and a bunch of wet heavy snow through out the night and all day tomorrow. They are saying around 10-14" in my area. Possible power outages and downed power lines.

I have the day off so thawing out some NY strips. Cow flesh and roasted taters is on the menu for tonight.

Three NINER NINE ✋

Dammit, I missed a double nine.

Good catch Ram

Turn the Page - Bob Seger

Ham, turkey & cheese sammich.. kettle chips.. couple oatmeal cream cooks things... 😟

Same proble. SquareTrade/Allstate is the warranty repair company. They damaged my touch pad and f'd up my operating system by upgrading form Windows 10 to Windows 11. I am taking it to my favorite local shop which will repair it in 5-6 days and SquareTrade/Allstate will reimburse me with a check within 5 business days. Hope you have better luck, RAM!