It’s been a while since I blogged. I tend to keep forgetting to do it. I just don’t surf the internet much since I started playing SecondLife. Anyhow, a few things have been going on.
Today, I had (still have) a migrain head ache and chills. I feel a bit weak all over. I may be comming down with something. Hopefully it passes quick. One item I noticed is that I didn’t get the flu this year. I get the flu every year and it is severe (way past Robotussin). I usually take about 2 weeks to get over it, and I still have symptoms for a few weeks after, but nothing major. This year I got myself a flu shot and boy, was it worth it. I had felt a little bad about someone not being able to get it who may have needed it more then I did, as flu shots are very limited. I just never realized how much that “I” needed it.
Tax Blowout
Tuesday was tax day. I had done my Federal taxes very, very early. I didn’t do state, though because I couldn’t afford it at the time of filing. The procrastinator that I am just kept putting it off. Between then and now, I had gotten a new hard drive and reinstalled my operating system. I tried to hook the other hard drive up and boot up my computer, but the power supply had died (another thing I have been putting off). I ran to two wallmarts, best buy, and comp usa. The thing is, it was after 9pm. Wall-mart doesn’t sell power supplies, and the other two stores were closed.
I was able to hook the hard drive up to a spare computer I had as a secondary drive. I had to take ownership of all the files since the file system was NTFS. Otherwise I couldn’t read the files. I found my tax file and was in luck. I didn’t know where my TaxCut disc was, so I ran over to the site and purchased both the federal and state versions. I was just hoping that it would be able to read my old file and as luck would have it, it did. Things were pretty simple from there and I got my state taxes filed a little after 11 pm.
The next day I upgraded my old power supply from 340 watts to 500 watts. I am hoping that the wattage is the main reason why my supply had burnt out. Around here, power supplies go up left and right. At least the hard disc’s don’t burn out like they used to on my older computers.
A little giant ladder
Easter had come this past weekend. I played a bit with my nephew and neice during there visit. We played hide and go seek, and just played a bit in the back yard. My mother in-law came over and helped me look at some ladders that I saw at SAM’s club. My eye was on a pretty tall one that would support 300 lbs. The problem was that it was a bit too large for the van. The step ladder next to it was just not high enough. She looked at a third ladder there that looked like the Giant Little Ladder.
This ladder folds and unfolds into 5 different positions including a step ladder and a 17 foot high ladder. I passed it over earlier that day due to the face that I couldn’t find its maximum load cappacity. She found it and it was also 300 lbs. The thing was very compact and fit rite in our shopping cart. I was debating on buying the original Giant Little Ladder earlier this year with my tax return, but it was expensive for how often I would use it (over $300). This little ladder was just over $100. Someone even stopped us in the store to ask where we found the ladder.
I was finally able to replace two flood lights on the highest part of the house. I am not a fan of heights. Perhaps it may be the part where you hit the ground that I may be afraid of. Anyhow, my hands were gripping that ladder so tight that it was hard to let go of one bar and grab the next. Meanwhile, I’m trying to hold a lightbulb in the other hand.
