Comments | mr_ten: Good and Bad

mr_ten

Good and Bad

Nov 28, 2006 09:53

The Good:
- Got our Sons of Kryos dice, check em out HERE.
-Had a awesome thanksgiving in NYC with my Wife's Sister and her Sister's Husband.
-Finished my Shed, I'll post a picture later today.

The Bad
-My Wife's car broke down a few weeks ago and is still in the shop.
-Our TV died.
-My Laptop is having video problems and I am not sure what is causing it

Comments 9

mysticalcarrot November 28 2006, 14:43:43 UTC

sweet dice! Congradulations on the Shed too!!
About the bad, I hope things get better.

tenacitydrader November 28 2006, 16:31:42 UTC

Where's the Ugly? It has to be the good, the bad, and the ugly when you post like this.

mr_ten November 28 2006, 21:51:12 UTC

Ok, next time.

sambear November 28 2006, 16:32:41 UTC

As someone who's helped put together a pottery shed before, I can say "Woot!" to you in complete knowledge of what completing a shed might mean.

Sorry to hear about your Wife's car. Are y'all still able to get around, pretty much? For some reason, I don't think of transit being all that great in Upstate NY

Laptop = what sort of video problems? Are you getting dead zones on the screen, or is it resolution / flicker?

mr_ten November 28 2006, 22:00:21 UTC

We are very lucky, we have two vehicles, one car one truck. The problem is that when her car is out of commission, she has to take the Truck. Yeah, transit sucks here.

As for the laptop, it's just about five years old now. Its a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Radion 9000 64mb Video Card. When I got back from vacation I hooked it up at home and after a few hours it started having problems. It started as just a few lines flickering on and off the screen. Over time it has gotten worse and I eventually took the laptop completely apart to make sure all of the connections were solid. Everything seemed ok, so I put it back together. Still have the problem. The next step was to un-install the drivers and re-install them. This also did not fix the problem. Maybe the video card was damaged on the trip somehow.

sambear November 28 2006, 22:09:56 UTC

Do you have a regular computer monitor you could hook it up to? That would test whether the card, or the screen, is the culprit.

mr_ten November 29 2006, 14:16:14 UTC

Yep, checked that. The problem shows up on both screens. I've started to look for replacement cards on e-bay.

boxninja November 28 2006, 18:15:39 UTC

Wow. How do we get SOK dice ourselves?

mr_ten November 28 2006, 22:08:04 UTC

We are giving some away to people who leave Odeos for the show, some will go as prizes, and some of them will be given out at conventions.

I'd be more than happy to send one your way for your contributions to the show if you e-mail me an address. Or you can wait till we run into each other at a convention.