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gwydion* In the midst of everything, the Lenovo Lemon Lemoned. More details below. Basically, I can't do the aggegate under these conditions. The refurbished, while excellent hasn't the memory for it, and it's simply to much work to do with all my prep inaccessible. I'm posting the smidgen I had scaffolded now as I've no guarantee it'll be here next reboot and I'm going to try to trick Best Buy into helping free. I have 4 dollars and change in my bank account as of this writing so paying for help is impossible until social security comes.
* "Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91:" https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/jane-goodall-famed-primatologist-anthropologist-conservationist-dead-91/story?id=109868347
* I went to the Ostio. We are proceeding with hip physio as expected. Bonus, he did a steroid injection in my right hip joint. I had steroid injections to the hip joints more than 15 years ago. They got rid of the ground glass sensation and rolled back the pain several years. This one is already a noticeable improvement. I'm to go back for the left in a month or two.
In other news, when I tried to log on to Firefox Tuesday night everything was gone. As usual the restore previous session option was greyed out. I absolutely don't have time or energy to try to hand restore it all today or really at any time this month. Still I guess it's now on my Wednesday night's to do list. So much work has been lost, and I won't be able to get much of it back.
Plus someone I care about very much is dying and the grief keeps hitting me in waves. I don't really want to talk about it. I'm talking with him and other people who know him. I'm just explaining that a lot of my energy is going into that right now.
This fucking year.
* Wednesday, I managed to break down the living room airconditioner. It's a whole drama as everything needs to be cleaned, drained, etc.. and the metal piece that goes in the window broke early in HoA Bedroom Attack Crisis. I did my best with the good duct tape. (NOTE to self. Need more Duct tape.) These uses a lot of spoons and also involved a closet reorganization as it gets stored right in front of where the water filter is now. It's short enough to not interfere with filter access at all, but a bunch of things had ended up in the hole the air conditioner fits in so I had to pull them out and deal with the TV trays endlessly falling off their rack and make everything fit back in around the unit. At least the air conditioner has little wheels under it, but I still have to manhandle over even small obstacles and I take it out on the patio to drain.
We mostly talked linguistics over dinner.
All night, everytime I got up, I did small prep things for fish reorganization. At least it's something.
I've started try to deal with the waterfox crash, but it's going to be a slog.
* Lenovo Laptop is broken again.
Just before bed Tursday morning, the connectivity went out just on the problematic Lenovo Lemon. The one I need to do all the aggregate things because it has enough memory to do it. Squirrel's laptop and the second hand refurbished connect just fine.
I can't do the aggregate if I don't find a solution. All the prep is over there.
I tried the usual things: reboots, checking connectivity. Coming back more than twelve hours later in case it is a temporary glitch. The computer claims it's connected, but it isn't. Disconning wifi and reconnecting it. Troubleshooting tool (It has never once worked for me in 30 years). Following a complicated set of directions written for someone else with the same trouble. Running an antivirus scan.
I spent two - three hours deleting things. I'll probably keep picking at that.
I'm out of ideas.
Does anyone know how to connect a Lenovo to the Internet after it breaks like this? Is there a trick to getting the web browser to talk to the part that says the wifi is working?
* "Sunday Sweets: Gothic Elegance:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-gothic-elegance-2025
* What to help support all of us all here at the Cat Asylum? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion
* "Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91:" https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/jane-goodall-famed-primatologist-anthropologist-conservationist-dead-91/story?id=109868347
* I went to the Ostio. We are proceeding with hip physio as expected. Bonus, he did a steroid injection in my right hip joint. I had steroid injections to the hip joints more than 15 years ago. They got rid of the ground glass sensation and rolled back the pain several years. This one is already a noticeable improvement. I'm to go back for the left in a month or two.
In other news, when I tried to log on to Firefox Tuesday night everything was gone. As usual the restore previous session option was greyed out. I absolutely don't have time or energy to try to hand restore it all today or really at any time this month. Still I guess it's now on my Wednesday night's to do list. So much work has been lost, and I won't be able to get much of it back.
Plus someone I care about very much is dying and the grief keeps hitting me in waves. I don't really want to talk about it. I'm talking with him and other people who know him. I'm just explaining that a lot of my energy is going into that right now.
This fucking year.
* Wednesday, I managed to break down the living room airconditioner. It's a whole drama as everything needs to be cleaned, drained, etc.. and the metal piece that goes in the window broke early in HoA Bedroom Attack Crisis. I did my best with the good duct tape. (NOTE to self. Need more Duct tape.) These uses a lot of spoons and also involved a closet reorganization as it gets stored right in front of where the water filter is now. It's short enough to not interfere with filter access at all, but a bunch of things had ended up in the hole the air conditioner fits in so I had to pull them out and deal with the TV trays endlessly falling off their rack and make everything fit back in around the unit. At least the air conditioner has little wheels under it, but I still have to manhandle over even small obstacles and I take it out on the patio to drain.
We mostly talked linguistics over dinner.
All night, everytime I got up, I did small prep things for fish reorganization. At least it's something.
I've started try to deal with the waterfox crash, but it's going to be a slog.
* Lenovo Laptop is broken again.
Just before bed Tursday morning, the connectivity went out just on the problematic Lenovo Lemon. The one I need to do all the aggregate things because it has enough memory to do it. Squirrel's laptop and the second hand refurbished connect just fine.
I can't do the aggregate if I don't find a solution. All the prep is over there.
I tried the usual things: reboots, checking connectivity. Coming back more than twelve hours later in case it is a temporary glitch. The computer claims it's connected, but it isn't. Disconning wifi and reconnecting it. Troubleshooting tool (It has never once worked for me in 30 years). Following a complicated set of directions written for someone else with the same trouble. Running an antivirus scan.
I spent two - three hours deleting things. I'll probably keep picking at that.
I'm out of ideas.
Does anyone know how to connect a Lenovo to the Internet after it breaks like this? Is there a trick to getting the web browser to talk to the part that says the wifi is working?
* "Sunday Sweets: Gothic Elegance:" https://www.cakewrecks.com/home/sunday-sweets-gothic-elegance-2025
* What to help support all of us all here at the Cat Asylum? https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Gwydion