[JenB]

Cars are a bit of a mystery to me. Computers, now... I can repair a lot of problems with desktops, though laptops are harder... and at least that's usually indoors.

[2Jedismom]

Mrsnad:

You know our friend Andrew got a wild hog, right? And gave us some of the meat? Well, I cooked up some of the ground meat that he gave us, made it into sausage patties. It was very sticky stuff and I was having trouble getting it to form the nice thin patties the way we like them. It just stuck to my fingers. But I stumbled upon a solution...

Here's what I did...

I took the meat, divided it up into golf-ball sized balls, then placed a little ball on a square of plastic wrap. Then I sprinkled it with the sage, salt and pepper. Then I used the plastic wrap to knead the spices into the ball of meat. That way, it didn't stick to my fingers at all! When I got it thoroughly kneaded, I used the plastic wrap to shape it into a ball again, then, still using the plastic wrap, I was able to flatten it out pretty flat...just using the palm of my hand to smash it around inside the plastic wrap! Then I gently peeled one side of plastic wrap off, flipped that side of the meat onto my hand, then gently peeled the other side off so that the thin sausage was resting in my hand. Then plop! In it went, into a lightly greased cast iron skillet. It cooked up beautifully and by the end of the experiment, I had some pretty nice round sausages cooking...the first ones were a bit sloppy, till I got the hang of it!

Then the boys proceeded to eat every smidgen of it. All I had left was the grease. The GREASE! I tossed in some flour and sautéed the flour till brown, then added milk and made a batch of cream gravy! Mmmm! I hate to say, but I ate the entire skillet full of cream gravy with some bread and a coke!

It was delicious.

[Bilbo Bagpipes]

Hey guys! I just got back from the Community high school. It seems most colleges, and the military don't except GEDs as real diplomas, so I am going to show these people what I have done, and take a grading test, and they are supposed to give me a diploma!

[Darksheare]

*chuckle*
I hate working on cars, honestly.
Of course, after having the missus blame every car quirk on me I would naturally dislike having to touch the cars.
My computer I've ixed myself.
had a bios update failure occur.
So I had to get a bios recovery kit and hot swap the bios rom.
Laptops are outside of my arena of knowledge, despite my first computer being a 486dx2 66 laptop.
My second machine was an AST Adventure 200 pentium 100.
Third machne was a homebuilt AMD K6-2 500 that I resurrected several times.
And when that motherboard finally died, I built my current machine.
Grabbed an Abit NF7-S ultra 400 board, some Kingston memory, and borowed a processor off of my father.
(Who will be repossessing it about the same time my replacement chip gets here.)
Oddly, the video card doesn't like the newest video drivers for it.
Seems it's a card bios conflict.
NVidia is at a loss to explain it, but they did say that a small number of GeForce 3 ti200 cards did have issues with the newest drivers.
(Reason one why there are no new GeForce 3's being made, but there are GeForce 2's and GeForce 4's being made.)

[Rose in RoseBear]

Portables are easy, Jen!

Just remember, when troubleshooting one: take everything off that you can, including memory, and then see if it notices there's no memory. If it doesn't notice, the problem is the motherboard. If it does notice the lack of memory, add everything back, one piece at a time, and attempt to boot in between.

The secret to troubleshooting is simplification.