Update for Thursday, August 13, 2015

Hi gang,

Well, tomorrow morning at 6:30 in the a.m. I go get my every-two-years camera stuck down my throat. Barrett's esophagus followed by GERD that started decades ago but I didn't get it checked out until early 2002. So now they do this to make sure the Barrett's doesn't come back.

So I get to be unconscious for most of the morning and then groggy for most of the rest of the day. I have plenty of steak and fried chicken and doughnuts and vanilla cookies on hand for that I-can't-possibly-cook feeling. My husband can cook a steak if I leave him instruction on how I like them (otherwise he will mess them up):

One boneless ribeye
Salt both sides well before cooking
Heat oven to 350F
Heat skillet on high for 3 minutes
Char both sides for 3-5 minutes each depending on steak's thickness
Finish in the oven until it measures 125-130F inside (might only take a minute or two) (This step is where the science of cooking becomes art, tricksy stuff)
Let rest for 3 minutes
Turn skillet to medium and deglaze with wine and a dab of butter and a teaspoon of dark brown sugar to make sauce
Add pepper and toasted onion powder from Penzey's Spices to steak
Add mashed potatoes and corn and add sauce to steak and potatoes
Coffee and cookies or a tangerine ice for dessert
Bask in that well-fed glow and watch Captain America in the elevator! ("Before we get started does anyone want to get out?") (Has anyone but me ever masturbated to any of the current superhero movies? Who's your fave and why?)

But that's just me. What about you folks? How do you like your steak?

Great. Now I have ZZ Top singing "Tube Snake Boogie" in my head which I always sing as tube steak! God, did Geana Tomasino gain weight! She was the one in the purple tank top. I ALWAYS wanted to ride in The Car. I heard they used rattlesnakes to guard The Car when it wasn't being used. If it wasn't true it should have been.

I finally, finally finished watching all the episodes of The X-Files. Now I have the followup movie to go through and then on to Fringe!

Too much coffee for me I think. (Maybe just one more cup, this pot is soooo good.) (CoffePOT! not mj!) (Although...I wouldn't mind that either.) (Not before surgery dolt, it will probably show up somehow in some test they run.) ("Hey doc, baby, you know you have some seriously hot nurses. Maybe some CPR training afterwards?") (Jeez, woman, get a grip!) (Getting a grip is what I want to do!) (Not like that!) (Yes, like that! And then things would go spurt and get all slipperly and salty, yum!) (Maybe a cold shower or two.)

You guys know the story series "Gobsmacked" don't you? I want to take that story and fill it out with more details, that always gets me hot reading that one.

Speaking of stories, I bet you all have read the same stories I have from Lit or Lush or xnxx. What do you want me to do about adding stories here, seriously? Where from and why? Just so they can be here or what? Is all this a waste of my time when they are already elsewhere?

Maybe I could take one I like and annotate it with my running comments? Let you know what you think and what you wish would happen.

Kara

I want Jarvis!

I hate computers.

Early last month I started getting random shutdowns. Just in the middle of anything or nothing my laptop would just shut off, no warning, no nothing. Booting it back up would work for a few minutes and then the same would happen again. It was taking about an hour of rest to bring it back up for any longer time than a couple of minutes.

So I got that figured out somewhat. It was overheating. The left-hand side was getting so hot that I couldn't hold my hand against it for very long. I propped the back up on these two pegs I found about an inch high and put a small electric fan near it blowing across the back of the keyboard. This worked somewhat but I was always in a breeze and wearing flannel in the house in the middle of the summer was too much. It would still shut down after several hours of work.

And then the Error happened.

I was working along, saving at the end of every sentence or spreadsheet line and BOOM! Blue Screen of Death and the Error "PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA".

I think I tried every solution on the first two pages of solutions in Google and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt/nothing.

I had a 5-6 minute window of workability once I saw the system tray clock before it cycled through the BSOD and tried to boot up again. And trying to do anything was like teaching a toddler to operate it, numbingly slow, numbingly frustrating.

I borrowed my daughter's laptop when she was asleep but I kept it strictly business and focused websearching for fixes. I didn't want anything to happen to her computer so no porn stuff.

Usually I'd have them both on the sofa working on trying to understand a fix and implementing it in safe mode, if I could. Safe mode seemed to work in the sense it didn't reboot over and over but I couldn't really do anything in it.

We put in a call to our family computer guru but he was out of town for two weeks. We thought about taking it to Worst Buy but I really wanted to wait until said guru could take a look at things. "Free" helped in that wanting to wait as well.

He finally came over last weekend and within ten minutes had it fixed. He also took the back off and detached some (insert technobabble here) near the fan and blew a huge gob of dust out and now it runs so cool as to not even radiate any heat compared to the inferno of before.

I've got several weeks of spreadsheets to go over and consolidate/collate and other things to catch up on that are home/financial related that I actually use this laptop for during the daytime. It's not all sex sex sex!

Tonight is the first period of time I've had free to get you guys up to speed on this and for that I apologize. Thanks for the concerned notes and patience.

I don't have a new story in the pipeline obviously. But give me a bit and I'll come up with something entertaining I hope.

It's nearly 1 in the a.m. and I need to get some sleep.

Go S.H.I.E.L.D.!

Kara