John, I knew you were in trouble when you said the neighborhood's electricity was out because a squirrel set the pole on fire. Time to get the matches away from the squirrels! Regards, Bob S.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:44 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
