Sometimes life just happens when not sitting at the computer and blogging about it. I have spent the past week playing with the new computer – just not blogging.  It is amazing how much smaller screws are and when did wires start having a life of their own? It does not take a lot of brains to figure out the most of the peeps who read this blog are not particularly fond or excited over reading about computers. Unless of course, it is about a computer  crash or nifty new computer  program.  I am going to blog about my computer anyway – just keep in mind that golly gee – it is what I have occupied myself with for five days.   Most of us with multiple sclerosis and/or other illnesses are keenly aware that things are usually not as easy to do as they were in the past.  I stubbornly refuse to except defeat when it comes to getting tiny little screws into the tiny little holes.  This is not always a good thing frustration wise.  But I have learned that some projects are going to get done whether it takes one hour or five days.   So I decided to clean up the cluster @uck of wires, clean the components, replace the hard drive, and add a photo card reader. I so need to hookup my keyboard and trackball.  I am familiar with my keyboard and have mentioned in a prior post how I dislike mice. I think swapping them from one computer to other is next on the list.  I also need to install some software still.  Where O where did I put all those little product keys – just  kidding – I am really good about keeping those little (well ok long) activation codes safe.

Computer Wires Before

Computer Wires Now

Lots of stuff went wrong when doing this. I dropped screws and my brain on MS lost track of what wire I had moved where and where I was going to put it.  Then the dang things were very non cooperative in where I could route them so they were not hanging out there all ugly. There is a good reason to organize them other than aesthetics – when tucked in all nice they do not hinder air flow.   Better air flow and the CPU runs cooler.  They can behave very wonky – just like me when I get to hot -and even fry out from too much heat. The other thing I a have been watching the past few days is the geologic activity around Japan. Yikes as I started typing out this post the RSS feed I watch went nuts!  The 5.0’s and 7.0’s have been going on for awhile but 8.9!! Yikes. I just got back from the tele and I can only pray for those folks.  The tsunami – oh my. Ok back again and I guess Hawaii is on alert now. The ring of fire has been busy lately.  Watching my RSS feed for quakes over 5.0 is interesting.  I just told everyone at lunch how I thought there was going to be a good size one coming up because of all the activity – sure wish I had been wrong. Well I am no longer into doing the blog thing cause – well just like I started this post mentioning – life happens – even with multiple sclerosis. BlogCatalog