About frazzled...
Mar. 28th, 2005 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhen I put the side panel back on my desktop, the temperature went up past my setpoint, so I rooted around for an extra fan I knew I had lying around somewhere, but the best I could do was find a little frame with two fans mounted on it that's supposed to sit in the space occupied by a blank drive-sized knockout panel on the front of your typical case. I'd used the device on gagarin's predecessor and like everything else around here, those fans eventually got clogged with dust, so I removed it a couple of years ago, I guess, and just hadn't simmered up the "attitude" to throw them out.
A good thing, too.
I managed to figure out what kept the rotors of those little fans in place and proceeded to disassemble, clean, and reassemble the little devils, so now, in addition to the two onboard fans mounted on the CPU and some other chip, and the big, main, noisy fan at the bottom of the case, I also have a pair of twin screws running near the top of the case. (Ah, but for how long?) With the sides mounted back on the frame and with the CPU chugging away at just under 12% while I'm typing this post using Semagic, the temperature is 68°C.
At any rate, I've finished editing the Big-O, along with a couple of smaller jobs sent today. Plus, I've checked and sent the medical thing I did Saturday, due tomorrow. I've even compiled an invoice for the past few days of work, for dispatch tomorrow, as well as another invoice for a shorter job done... was it a week ago? Yikes!
What's left? There's 9 pages (about 3200 source words) due Thursday at 2 pm. Fortunately, I've already run the fax through FineReader and have a workable source file to process.
As far as going out into the world is concerned, I got about as far as driving to the store to bring Drew some checks for the store's checkbook. I've been gnawing leftovers - which are delicious, mind you - and guzzling canned iced tea - which isn't, and yes, I should get my head examined for buying canned iced tea - as if food and drink are going out of style.
It's time to go upstairs and unwind.
Cheers...
A good thing, too.
I managed to figure out what kept the rotors of those little fans in place and proceeded to disassemble, clean, and reassemble the little devils, so now, in addition to the two onboard fans mounted on the CPU and some other chip, and the big, main, noisy fan at the bottom of the case, I also have a pair of twin screws running near the top of the case. (Ah, but for how long?) With the sides mounted back on the frame and with the CPU chugging away at just under 12% while I'm typing this post using Semagic, the temperature is 68°C.
At any rate, I've finished editing the Big-O, along with a couple of smaller jobs sent today. Plus, I've checked and sent the medical thing I did Saturday, due tomorrow. I've even compiled an invoice for the past few days of work, for dispatch tomorrow, as well as another invoice for a shorter job done... was it a week ago? Yikes!
What's left? There's 9 pages (about 3200 source words) due Thursday at 2 pm. Fortunately, I've already run the fax through FineReader and have a workable source file to process.
As far as going out into the world is concerned, I got about as far as driving to the store to bring Drew some checks for the store's checkbook. I've been gnawing leftovers - which are delicious, mind you - and guzzling canned iced tea - which isn't, and yes, I should get my head examined for buying canned iced tea - as if food and drink are going out of style.
It's time to go upstairs and unwind.
Cheers...
