Relax. Have a KitKat.
Alan C
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From: John
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 9:44 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: OT: This week, WTF?
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.
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