Mmm, Yummy.

[elfs]

After I got home yesterday I got to work replacing the burned-out motherboard in Omaha's computer while she put dinner together. We had invited guests over that evening but plans fell through (no thanks to AT&T's painfully slow mail-forwarding servers) so she decided to make roast chicken sandwiches with spinach and an unbelievably delicious cream cheese-and-cranberry dressing. They were fabulous. Of course, Kouryou-chan picked off the spinach and then the chicken before deciding she just wanted cranberry cheese sandwiches.

The motherboard went in without complaint, even taking the CPU transplant without incident. I don't trust my USB hookups (yet) since they're so flaky, but everything else seems to work-- even the HDD LED works. Omaha's struggling now to get the whole system up. I'm rather annoyed that Windows 98 nuked all of its settings upon realizing that the motherboard had changed-- all of the drivers for the modem, the video card, the NIC, the sound, they all disappeared.

I dunked Kouryou-chan into the bathtub where she insisted on trying to cover me with bubbles, then read our routine four books before going to bed. She choose Anne Geddes books, which don't require any reading skills, making me wonder if maybe we're not paying enough attention to her sometimes. I did play with her a lot this evening, roughhousing and other stuff.

Comments

I can top that....

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

I turned off the powersaving stuff on our motherboard, and Windows totally freaked out. Forgot everything it new about the hardware, including that it had a CDROM drive -- and oh, yeah, wanted to load the IDE drivers because it had forgotten it had them.

From CD.

Shalon Wood

w98 is such a beast

[woggie.livejournal.com]

This is why I suggested replacing the motherboard with a duplicate, but it's water under the bridge now. No doubt I responded to Omaha while you were busily replacing parts. Not that it matters.

Glad to hear it went trouble-free before then. I always get so antsy when changing major parts. That probably explains why I upgrade so infrequently. I have to gear myself up for it and make all-new lists of the things I have to back up before going over to the new parts and bigger hard drive.

Ah well. Hope everything goes well for you all. You have my best.