Planet Geek

Bouncing off the bottom.

Business yammerings

Boy, that's how I feel. I think that business stuff hit bottom about a month ago, when I wasn't sure if I could continue with things, or how we'd move ahead. Then a some good things started happening, and some of the stuff that has been annoying me and really making it hard to be positive began to change.

It sounds like a little thing, but aquiring new batteries for my laptop was a huge win. My laptop batteries were totally shot, holding onto charge for only about 20 minutes. Considering it takes 7-10 minutes from power on to get to a workable desktop, that doesnt' leave much room for dillydallying.

My business partner found a set of batteries from one of his old laptops, and sent them up, and Lo! I now have 4 1/2 hours of battery time. Yippee! No more -requiring- a power supply to do anything. This, combined with setting up my wireless modem on my Kyocera, should make me Mighty Mobile Power Geek!

Course, last night, I did find out that my laptop 'low power' notification settings were out of wonk, as, in mid-type, the laptop just up and powered itself off, blinking the orange "LOW BATTERY!" light at me accusingly. "Nitwit, didn't you SEE me blinking?"

Anyway, all is well, recharged, and ready to go.

Ain't technology grand?

[Edit: 1:17pm - changed a few words to actually make sense. Sheesh :) ]

Posted by dbs at July 24, 2004 10:33 AM