Monthly Archives: January 2004

Ah the joys of home ownership

Oh, I just love owning a house. I really really do.

It’s just sometimes the downsides are darn close to outweighing the upsides.

Today I’m working from home because last night we found some frozen pipes.

Last july we had some sill-pipes replaced because the old ones were leeking badly.

The pipe in the back of the house was replaced with a standard frost proof valve and doesn’t seem to have any problems.

The pipe in the garage, however, was replaced with a cheap standard valve, because it’s “Inside the house” and shouldn’t have problems with freezing.

Earlier in the week I had decided that the port replicator for my laptop had died. It would power on, start to boot the laptop, and then power off.

Today I decided to try and make it work again … I had already assumed it was a lost cause, so I figured I couldn’t break it any worse.

Now, however, it’s working.

It didn’t at first … exhibited the same behavior as before.

However, this time I tried to boot the laptop in the APR with the laptop lid open … lo and behold, it boots normally.

So I start plugging devices in … and they are all working. I plug the monitor in and close the lid, and the monitor springs to life.

I’m confused.

I think computers were placed on this world just to screw with my brain.