I have always admired resourcefulness in a person, and Ass Burger Boy practices that quality with reckless abandon. When he was little, he loved to take things apart. I think he was hoping to catch the items in the act of working, so he could see how it was done. After I instructed him to remember the sequence of disassembling, he then reversed it so he could actually put things back together. He may have Asperger’s Syndrome, but he’s wicked smart.
Even though I aced my hardware course in school, he has far better eyesight than I do, and I get him to do all the hardware stuff. He’s that good.
Recently, we had a crisis at casa witchypoo. His internet connection was not working. It could be the Microcrap router, but it could also be his wireless card.
His priest also had a bit of a geek crisis. Seems his baby boy dropped the external hard drive enclosure for his laptop (while it was connected and running!), and the delicate platters of his 250 GB hard drive did not take kindly to the fall. Since his internal hard drive was only 6 GB, he had a need.
ABB has been lusting after a laptop for some time now. He figured if the router was at fault, then he could always go somewhere else to play World of Warcraft. Laptop goes where the lap goes, you know.
He proposed a trade with his priest, who readily accepted, because ABB’s desktop has a speedy processor and a 250 GB hard drive. Also, ABB set him up on his laptop in the first place, and got it all tickety-boo.
ABB was over the moon. He has the laptop he always wanted, (Toshiba Satellite!) and the wireless card works on the router. The router will still need to be replaced shortly with a faster one. After all, I have the blazing 15 MB connection, might as well get as much router as possible to handle it.
More resourcefulness: Since the router was behaving petulantly, and I noticed that it was quite warm to the touch, ABB said he would do what I did for hot flashes, and trained a fan on it. Bingo! Smart, resourceful guy.
Only drawback with the laptop is that it needs more RAM. He can’t play WoW with what is on the machine. He also wants a bigger internal hard drive, so he doesn’t have to lug around the 80 GB drive that I had to spare. (The one that had all the funny military images I needed to access anyway) Who needs three hard drives? Not me. After transferring the data from the 80 GB drive, I still have 125 GB free on my secondary drive.
This was the impetus to open a shop. We want to fund our computer habits.
I have crystals galore, and some of them have been specially worked on by my shaman friend in Texas, the fabulous Lucy in da Sky.
I have gotten a few orders for my purple plates through this site, but the amount I make on them is laughable. I don’t want to raise my prices on them at this time, because I want them to be accessible to those who need them.
I also have artist friends, and I would like to market some of their offerings in the shop as well. I need one of them to come over and take pictures of my pretty crystals and artwork. Stop in from time to time, and see what is up. I like to change things up on a regular basis. My shop page is on my navigation bar. It’s a handy thing. I will have a new item up later today.
If you aren’t up for funding our computer habits, I understand. You can always vote for me.
Plus, some of the stuff you’re talking about sounds fab, and if I’m supporting a fellow blog addiction, so be it!
