I mentioned here before that the week started with the power being out because the squirrel set a telephone pole that carries the electricity for my neighborhood ON FIRE!
I think that may be the high point of good times for the week. Tuesday I spent the entire day - 9am to 5pm - trying to set up a user account with Citibank so that I can pay the bill for the new Costco Citibank Visa card online. When I did it for American Express, I think it took me about 5 minutes. I don't think I ever had any problem with American Express that took more than 5 minutes to resolve on the phone (including hold time). The last thing I got from Citibank's level 2 support was that they don't know what's wrong, but there 17 other people in the U.S. are having the same problem. They suggested maybe I should take my laptop to McDonalds & use their public WiFi, or maybe use one of the computers down at the public library to create the account. Yesterday, was a war on fleas day, which I seem to be losing. Took the cat to the vet to be bathed & boarded over night while I fumigated the house with those "foggers in a can". Finally got back in at 10:00pm last night & still had to vacuum, change all the bedding and do dishes before I could get to bed. Pinched a sciatic nerve somehow & could barely move by the time I gave up last night. Used a heat pad overnight, and I can hobble around reasonably well today. Today, after I finished up housecleaning the aftermath of yesterday's fumigation, I went & got the cat from the vet. She's got some residual itching I guess, because even though she's all clean and sleek and not shedding a bit, she's still scratching some. Probably will have to go back to the vet to get medication for the itching until the scratched spots heal up. When I finally got around to turning on my computer this afternoon (shut them down while fogging the house) one of my NAS boxes won't connect. Looks like one of the drives may be failing (if it hasn't already failed outright), but I think the fault may be the NAS box itself this time. The NAS is set up as a RAID-1 mirror, so I should be able to recover the data from the good drive. I downloaded software to allow EXT2, EXT3 or EXT4 drives to mount on Windows 7 and a program that's supposed to allow me to read the data from the EXT formatted drive. The mount software sees the drive and gives it a drive letter. Windows says it's not a recognized drive and wants to format it. The Linux Reader software sees the drive, but so far it won't let me read the data. I don't think there's anything on the "drive" that's not backed up somewhere else, but I won't know for sure until I manage to read the data & hopefully copy it over to a new backup. They say trouble comes in threes, but I'm already up to 4 for the week so I don't know what's going on. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
