This, That and the Other
Mar 17th, 2008 by Nola
I have three things that warrant honorable mention.
First, a shout-out to Christy to thank her for my lovely gift of hand-made stitch holders (click here for Christy’s pic):
They are beautiful (and in the colors of Mardi Gras!) and are the inspiration I needed to dive into my next knitting project. Thanks, again, Christy.
Second, I ate at a new taco joint this weekend and it blew me away. Hands down the best taco I have had in years and definitely the best I currently know of in the city. It’s called Taco San Miguel and is located in Fat City (in Metairie). How good are these tacos? After eating some Friday night, I returned Saturday to eat more. Yeah, they are that good. I think I’ll go again this week. Still don’t believe me? Read here for another’s high opinion. The place is small, and you order at the counter. They don’t yet have a liquor license. And the good folks who run it don’t speak really good English. But none of that matters because this place is about the food. ¡Y es el más delicioso!
Third, a moment a silence as the living will for my laptop is being perused by the legal department. I tripped over the cord yesterday and it crashed to the floor. I got concerned when I clicked to turn it on and nothing happened; no noise, no lights. Nada. So the good Captain Sarcastic got his tools out and did what he could. Towards the end, it looked like this:
and this:
But he DID get it to vroom back to life. Sort of. It has been put back together (all but a corner that had already been super-glued back together once before) but it is officially on life support. It works only if plugged in; it will not take a charge. I do think CS performed a miracle. But the miracle was to turn my laptop into a desktop. Which is better than nothing, granted. But it sucks because Sun likes to pull the cord out of it. Now if she does, it dies. And it currently smells like Cheerios. I asked CS if he used it as a table for Sun today and he giggled and responded, “What else is it good for?” It’s plug will be pulled just as soon as the newer, younger, sexier model arrives at my door. It has been a good and loyal friend and deserves a better demise than I will give it. Alas.
Stumble it!
Clearly by mentioning food and a good food place, this means it will be our rendezvous place this summer when we meet!
Computer guts: Yum!
HA, HA. I loved your advance directive metaphor.
BTW, did you know “National Healthcare Decisions Day” is coming up?
I wrote an ENTIRE 30 page paper on living wills. Turns out there really isn’t much to be said in those 30 pages that someone hasn’t already said much more eloquently than I ever could…or did.
Are you a Juan’s Flying Burrito fan??
Oh, NO! Not the laptop!
The CompUSA Special is howling in sympathy. Poor machine. I’m sure it has served you well all this time. But DON’T go serving food on it!
I can relate. I’ve broken TWO laptops in the past month. I’ve got a Dell battery pack if you want it. It’s five years old and my dog teethed on it, but it still works.
I’ve got my eye on a Mac Air now.
If I didn’t know better I’d swear we had the same laptop and the same hubby! Ha-ha! Seriously, my husband has taken my laptop apart more times than I can count and I always have to be careful when he does that b/c God forbid I knock a teeny tiny screw off and it doesn’t work unless plugged to the power cable! Oh wait, it doesn’t work unless plugged in!! Don’t know what happened to cause that (could’ve been the multiple times it was taken apart or the multiple times being dropped) but I blame him:) I think it’s my battery though. I need to buy so much for this damn thing that I’m thinking we just need a desktop. At least I never dropped that. Of course I did just about break the CD drive but that’s another story:)
I regurgitated Cruzan for at least 7 pages, then some JFK Hospital, inserted some Schiavo and discussed why attorneys should carefully draft living wills.
It was horrific. I wrote all 30 pages in six hours.
And I got a B and went back to my boss’s trial.
We all know you did it on purpose because you were jealous that CS got a new laptop and you didn’t. Stop frontin’
you KNOW the food is good when the proprietors don’t speak English well!! i loooove mexican food. new orleans is one of the great food loves of my life. i need a po boy and crawfish and a daiquiri to live right now.
Good heavens! I saw your tweet yesterday but didn’t have a moment to comment back, and I didn’t want to sound like fruitcake. So sorry to hear. I will keep your puter in my thoughts……
I feel your pain, my pc has been given the kiss of life twice now in 4 days… the time is drawing near…
So sorry for your techno loss… (moment of silence)… my Mac at home had the blue screen of death not too long ago (luckily Apple support was able to talk it back down) and my PC at work got the Black Screen of the Apocalypse (mother board fried). A frankenstein-style fix was in order and I was back online within a couple hours. I feel your pain, sista friend!
Yikes! Scary when it’s all apart like that. Mmmm, taco joint….we definitely so not have a good Mexican place around here…jealous!
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Ouch. Every time I’ve looked at the innards of a laptop, the prognosis hasn’t been good. But they’re fun to take apart.