Frivolous At Heart

Yes, more shelves! I had to install more shelves. First it was only seven rows my sister wanted then she wanted it to go up to the ceiling. Only problem was the AC switches were in the way so I had to move those.

See those switches? Man they were a pain in the ass to move! Well not really, just time consuming because I had to cut into the wall in two places for elbow room to fish the wires through to their new home.

It was fun removing them from their location and relocating! The wires were #6 gauge and was very hard to manipulate! Kind of bulky to work with but it was done none-the-less.

After I was done, I had to patch up the walls and puddy’d the wall up for texturing tomorrow! Yes, I said texturing! If you are going to do a project, do it right or don’t do it at all! Though sometimes I get lazy but that still doesn’t make it okay!

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I’m done! I wonder how they are going to get their shoes? I had a hard time reaching the highest shelf with that ladder you see in the foreground. Those are some high shelves!
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moving electrical boxes : moving electrical boxes : patching up holes in walls : drywall patching : drywall texturizing

I use this program so much it isn’t even funny. I find myself using it 5-10 times a day and that annoying pop up telling you to register made me cave in! I ordered the license and thus the pop up is no longer! I was using the free version for ages but I’ve been buying a lot of software lately so why not add another to my arsenal of geekness?

I prefer this over WINZIP because it’s more powerful in my opinion plus it does all that I need. Less file corruption for me when I archive files in a bundle. WINZIP may have improved but I don’t care to try it out anyhow. WinRAR is for me; nice easy and does what I need. Thats really the bottom line now-a-days: can it fulfill all my needs?

Plus, you get all these cool themes you choose from: (I got the Aladdin Theme=))

I get so confused which SATA what plugs into where and looks like how all the time. Technology keeps on changing. Sata 1 came out and it was pretty easy and efficient. Then SATA 2 came out which was basically the same as SATA 1 with only one noticeable difference: SATA 1 had no clip and would “slip” out of its port while SATA 2 had a clip device that would grasp hold onto the port it was stuck in. Here is a photo of what I speak of:

SATA 1

SATA 2

Now there’s eSATA too so we can’t forget about that! They come in varying lengths and the longest I’ve seen is six feet. It’s tailored for external use. Not something I would advise but to each his own. I like internal- safer for my setup. eSATA is the same as above except it was incorporated in 2004 to define the standard transmit and received potential: (wikipedia)

# Minimum transmit potential increased: Range is 500–600 mV instead of 400–600 mV.
# Minimum receive potential decreased: Range is 240–600 mV instead of 325–600 mV.

Hold on, what the hell are convenient fees? USF is full of BULLSHIT. Ironic their football team is ‘The Bulls’. It’s bullshit!!! Students who pay for tuition get crushed with this fee. First USF rapes you for parking every year, then they enforce this new fee for paying tuitions online. WHAT THE FUCK? You suck USF. Yeah i’m a student and I’m saying you FUCKING SUCK!

30k-40k +++ students hmmm lets say 60% pay for tuition online and the rest pay at school. So thats 24,000 who pay online x 10.00 fee = 240,000.00. I don’t see how the convenient fee applies here? Why is it such a convenient? O, because you don’t have to get inline to pay. Now the line is going to increase. You would think you pay them this much money that they could get more minions to shorten the lines… It’s convenient to pay online but they don’t have to necessarily charge for it. It’s freak’n automated for crying out loud.

You know… I wonder lately why newer laptops roll out with all the bells and whistles but the manufacturers hide the harddrives so inconspicuously. You would have to remove the whole front or bottom of the laptop to get to the harddrive. What reason? I don’t know! No wait, I do know!!! They want you to bring it in for repair and or services and charge you an arm and a leg for labor!

Before, they had harddrives conspicuously hidden on the side of the laptop or on the bottom with a plastic/metal cover shroud over it. That was easy to access and easy to upgrade harddrives at will. Not now-a-days. The reason why I bring this topic up is because harddrives are prone to failure within many years of service and sometimes they just die at a very early stage during their service… What the hell do you do if you have harddrive failure? Opps, got to take it in because I can’t get to it or I migh void my warranty… How long does warranty process these repairs? Weeks! When do you need your lapper? You want it NOW dammit: not three weeks later!

If you are like me, whom restore their systems quite often… Why? Well it only takes 5-8minutes to restore my system with Norton Ghost… Does lappers allow you to do this efficiently? NO. Why? Because they come pre-installed with some type of operating system (XP or Vista for example) and all these systems that are pre-installed, will only restore to one partition… Here is a typical harddrive setup for lappers:

If you take a look at the above photo, you see that you only have one partition in lappers… I like to have two partitions; one for your operating system and the other to make backups of that operating system. The reason is because sometimes your lapper decides to slow down and or act flaky and instead of losing everything with the restore disk (newer lappers don’t come with restore CDs dammit), you can restore it from the Norton Ghost (Ghost) file. Do you see that EISA partition? I call it the ghost partition because you can’t see it. That partition is the restore partition and it is required for the system to operate (some manufacturers).

The way I setup my partition is this: You need two partitions (excluding the EISA partition), one 30Gig and the rest the second partition for full system backups. In order to do this, you are required to take out the harddrive to first backup the system using Ghost. Then make the two partitions, then do the restore. The logic behind this is because the lapper comes with the pre-installed operating system with all drivers; you can’t use the restore disk to install a new operating system on the 30Gig partition because the OEM restore disk won’t allow it. You can do this without removing the harddrive by reinstalling everything and that requires a new operating system to be purchased.

If you have a lapper, I highly recommend this type of partition setup for efficiency. Nothing beats a system restore that can be done in less than 15minutes. Norton Ghost is a life saver! Harddrive failure, virus, wacky systems etc- all pay tribute to a quick system restore. If you don’t have Ghost, you obviously are quite brave!

FYI: Sony & Toshiba Lappers do not require the EISA partition. IBM Lenovo 2005–? requires the EISA partition. I know this because I have had to do it with dozens of lappers for friends and family. My newest trail was with a Dell Vistro. I gave up because I wasn’t going to take the lapper apart to get to the harddrive… The harddrive is hidden somewhere within the shell. Not worth taking the risk of voiding the warranty!

Converting Watts to Amps

The conversion of Watts to Amps is governed by the equation Amps = Watts/Volts

For example 12 watts/12 volts = 1 amp
Converting Amps to Watts

The conversion of Amps to Watts is governed by the equation Watts = Amps x Volts

For example 1 amp * 110 volts = 110 watts

Converting Watts to Volts

The conversion of Watts to Volts is governed by the equation Volts = Watts/Amps

For example 100 watts/10 amps = 10 volts

Converting Volts to Watts

The conversion of Volts to Watts is governed by the equation Watts = Amps x Volts

For example 1.5 amps * 12 volts = 18 watts

Converting Volts to Amps at fixed wattage

The conversion of Volts to Amps is governed by the equations Amps = Watts/Volts

For example 120 watts/110 volts = 1.09 amps

Converting Amps to Volts at fixed wattage

The conversion of Amps to Volts is governed by the equation Volts = Watts/Amps

For Example, 48 watts / 12 Amps = 4 Volts

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As you can see from the video, this printer bottoms out (scrapes the bottom of the ink carts)

Even it this printer would print correctly, how would it print if it bottoms out?

I love my bandsaw. Installing baseboards is easy! If you had only to cut 45degree angles only! I had to cut round corners which made the task a little challenging but I did it without a sweat! A whole house would probably take me 2 full days but now it’s only taking a day. To do round corner baseboards, you have to cut three pieces: three @ 22.5degrees!

Cutting the center piece that ties into the two boards is a pain! So I setup my bandsaw to cut the center 22.5degree piece. I needed twenty-four of them. Cutting them one at a time would prove to be very VERY time consuming. The bandsaw made it easy once I had setup a jig for it! Took me less than 30mins to cut all the pieces! Now all is needed are lots of other boards cut! I’ll finish tomorrow!

EDIT: Here are samples of the cuts I’m talking about:

My sisters like all women, believe that you must hold on to something that belongs to you. Women in general, feel insecure that their man is going to study, out for lunch, or chat to another woman without them fearing that they will lose them. That is true and I know that for a fact, a lot of men fall for someone else that they “hang out” with. I understand the woman’s point of view and how they are insecure about all this.

My take on it is that if you have a sound relationship, your partner won’t do things like that. Why would they need to? If they do, they are not for you and that kind is not something you want to keep around. Someone true to you and themselves will draw a line between anything when the need arises.

You certainly can’t expect your gf/bf to drop everything and have a new life with you. That isn’t possible. Friends will always be there; your gf/bf may or may not. Let them hang out with their friends guy or girl. If they are going to leave you, no matter how tight your grasp, they will leave without hesitation. Be patient and secure with yourself so those around you will be too. You can’t keep a heart happy by chaining their leg to yours; they’ll find else where to nest at.