On A Work Trip and Rookie Numbers

Greetings and Salutations!
So tonight is going to be extremely light. I had to make a trip down to Glorious Home Office to see new IT Commissar as Laptop was toast. This being the like 18th? or so time that it shit the bed, the new IT Commissar told me to actually come into the Home Office, and they’d pay the mileage.

Works for me!

So not only did I get to take a 3-4 hour drive on company time, I got paid for it, as well as a new lappie out of the deal.

Tell you what however, it’s been a bad week for me and computers. AFTER the initial report of the work PC doing the crash and burn on Wednesday, Thursday had it’s own challenges that almost made me cry like a bitch.

My front room, home to the “Big Country Museum of War and Mayhem” is also my workspace. I have a workbench, loading bench and my gaming PC there, as well as my dedicated People’s Glorious Tractor Factory spot.

Well, I had a bottle of water on the bench with my gaming pc under it. By all rights, it should have been fine. However I did not figure on Bob-The-Asshole-Cat to decide to play fuck-fuck-chase-chase, and run across the top of the bench, and knock the water over.

The water thankfully missed the MAJORITY of the PC.

HOWEVER
A wee bit did get through the top.
The case is pretty much open on the front with 3 fans, the back with two BIG fans, and the top, which is open with a very tight mesh screen. Lots of cooling for it… The Processor cooling tower I think is liquid cooled, self contained. Not sure as Spawn #1 built it, and he’s no longer speaking to me, mores the pity.

It’s been a minute since the interior has been ‘blown out’ completely of dust, so it was easy to spot just where the water did or did not hit. I cleaned everything up, and since the thing was still running, I figured I was good.

Until I wasn’t.
The mouse was frozen, and the power button had ceased to work. Turns out that the plugs on the motherboard? The ones that controlled the USB 2.0 connector(s) and the JFP1, JFP2: Front Panel Connectors had ONE drop of water that hit each one. I ended up having to unplug the pin connectors, dry everything, and WAIT.

Thanks be to Crom or God or (insert your Deity of Choice) after about two hours, a lot of prayer and begging for mercy to the Computer Gods, I reset everything and YAY!

It’s back and working.

I’m VERY pleased with this, as while I was waiting, I went to price a replacement board. Now I got this as a leftover from Spawn when he upgraded HIS rig. The motherboard came out in 2016…. I figured “…how expensive could it be?”

Wow
Even for an older board, $160+ shipping is pricey.
And never mind the fact that I’d be without my rig?
Yeah… it would have sucked.

So THAT frens is what has been happening here.

And as far as the current Polly-Ticks?

Well, anything that makes the current group of fucktards, on BOTH sides of the aisle wail, gnash their teeth, and scream and cry like the fucking cunts they are is a good fucking thing.

I sooooo look forward to the next round of mental breakdowns.
There are reports state that nationally, the suicide count is like 2500% above the norm since the election.

You know what I call that?

A good fucking start.

If they keep it up, we might actually run out of drunken blue haired lezbos, crazy wine aunts and deranged anti-American Karens by January. IRL I know it won’t happen, but a man can dream right? And the ones not offing themselves? Who’ve sworn off sex and reproduction? Even fucking better. That means they’ve stopped pissing in our collective gene pool, and I’m comfortable with that.

So More Later
Big Country



31 thoughts on “On A Work Trip and Rookie Numbers”

  2. Yeah. Cats are assholes. Seriously.

    I had one once that liked slowly walking across the fireplace mantle knocking things off on purpose. No, really – he’d sit there, stare right at you – the put his paw out and slowly push things off the mantle. It’s almost like he wanted to see how long you’d wait before you leapt forward to try and save whatever it was he was pushing to it’s destruction. And it just wasn’t fireplace mantles either – it was anywhere that was higher than ground level that had an edge he could push things off of. Asshole cat.

    And yes, I’m the survivor of that conflict.

      1. Oh, yes I do – but my ex wasn’t as good a shot, and wouldn’t have shot the cat anyway – unless it had pushed one of her beloved Hummel figurines. Then, we wouldn’t have had to worry – because she’d have BBQ’d it and served it up to neighborhood dogs. BTW – the reason accuracy was important was due to the entire width of the mantle having a large mirror behind it. I disliked that cat, but *really* didn’t want to shatter the mirror.

  3. Video games?

    “It’s a privilege to be a shitlord, Murdoch, and here you are playing vidya like a faggot in heat.”

  4. You lucked out BC, those pin headers on the main board are strictly low voltage logic signals, which is probably why you avoided major damage.

    I had a similar sphincter puckering moment this past summer. Was at my brother’s place for a BBQ when I noticed his A/C condenser was absolutely caked with dust and lint (as apparently he never learned one needs to keep it clean). I hosed it off, and got it spotless. But then it started acting all weird, with the contactor inside chattering and doing all manner of weird shit. Little did I know there was a logic board inside the condensing unit, and I’d gotten it wet. Just about shit myself on that discovery, considering what that board was likely to cost.

    Dragged out the air compressor, and blew it off thoroughly (after shutting off the power). On restoring the power, it kicked right on normally and worked perfectly, so I got exceptionally lucky. Lesson learned, as I have been hosing off coils for 3o years with units under power, and never had an issue before. But most didn’t have circuit boards in them, either. Just wiring, a contactor and a couple of capacitors.

    I’m ok with cats, but would never have one in my own home, because they are (at least periodically) assholes. Plus they chew on shit, and I have too much expensive gear (amps, speakers, synths and effects modules, plus associated cabling) setup to risk it getting fucked up by a cat with the zoomies, or just a bitchy, destructive attitude.

  5. Heh, don’t forget the meme that shows two headlines (different rags).
    1: 15 million excess deaths since 2020
    2: 15 million less blue votes from 2020

    1. Yeah, it’s a shame that the venn-diagram of the above isn’t a single circle. 😉

  6. Don’t bother buying a new board. Get on the interwebz Ebay and search for the EXACT model number and EXACT same processor. You can find perfectly working used computers going for 50 to 90 bucks delivered.
    I just bought one 2016 HP Compaq with i7 processor to restore a dead unit that has buckets of company data on it and some programs that are needed.

    Hope to find out in a couple of days if this allows us to move over all the hardware to get up and running without much fanfare. My BIL the computer geek thinks it will either work as is or the on disk MS OS may simply have to be re-started to recognize the firmware on the new identical motherboard board. We shall see.

    One other thought as ya have nuttink to lose – take out your existing motherboard, wash it with distilled water real well, shake and pat off as much as possible with paper towels, then put it in the oven set at about 120 degrees for a few hours (or being Florida, in the sunny part of the room all day or maybe 2 days – sans curious cats). Of course cool before re-inserting. Sometimes getting 100% of the moisture and dissolved solids off, allows it to recover.

    1. Akk. Just realized you said it was a build – that is a complicating factor – still – see if you can find the mother board by model and S/N match in some used machine. Fair winds bro.

  7. How to tell the flat-earthers are full of shit. If the earth was flat, cats would have knocked everything off by now.

  8. Look up South Korea for cheapest parts.
    I was hoping Bro would gift the Bitcoin machine on the way out to greener pastures, but no such luck.
    Keep beverage away from the fun machine so that it doesn’t take a shit and keel over!
    Once spilled a Coke into boombox and the Professor (RIP) fixed it right up and it went on for years.
    Found early 70s Fender Silver Face twin reverb, first Sunn ((O)) amp in Profs basement and an old Vox, Harold the Brain bought all of those.
    Tubes haven’t been made in USA for years, for vintage electronics.

    1. “Trump’s pick for head of Homeland Security, is slow-witted Kristi Noem, governor of South Dakota, who serves to ensure the security of God’s ‘chosen’ people. She signed a bill to conflate criticism of Israel as ‘anti-Semitism.’ Open your mouth against the evil Israel in the near future, and you may get hauled off to prison.”

      https://earthnewspaper.com/gary-d-barnett/welcome-to-trumps-zionist-america-now-a-jewish-run-state-by-gary-d-barnett/

  10. Cats are assholes. If you were to look at the “How to Live Life” pie graph of my life 25% of the graph would be shaded-live life like a cat.

  11. Didja catch the one about the psycho broad what offed her pops with an ice axe? Seattle. TDS at its finest.

  12. Laptops and such should last for a decade but most of them are about as disposable as a suppository. They get more powerful but with a shorter life expectancy by the year.

    1. Bought a Mac in 2014. Typing on it right now. For what I use a computer for it’s been great!

  15. You just need to apply more Cat Noogies(TM).

    Cat Noogies solve the problem of misbehaving cats believing they can get away with it.

    That middle knuckle action on their head every time Cat Evil Sallies Forth eventually leads to the cats ceasing to believe they can get away with it, because the Cat Noogies Cometh.

    Properly applied, it only seriously annoys the cat, doesn’t hurt the cat, and works as appropriate behavior therapy.

    It also works on chick veterinarians who look shocked that you’d apply such a horribly simple and effective deterrent toward cat misbehavior, but do you really want to take a chick cat doctor home?

    I swear, chick cat doctors are worse to care for than cats. 🙂

    1. water spray bottles and squirt guns are great cat discipline tools

      plus you’re using discomfort instead of fear to modify behaviour.

      in the eyes of cats, all things belong to cats

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