Parrothead Jeff & Friends

Yep, today’s going much better than yesterday !

I’m at work today (on my lunch break right now) and functional without pharmaceuticals . True, I can think of places I would rather be than at work, but there’s this whole bills thing I have to be concerned about. There’s rent to be paid and insurance on the car, too. Maybe one day I’ll fly for a living, but until then I’ll keep fixing phones and computer issues.

My laptop did cause me some serious trouble yesterday. I’ve been meaning to look into a replacement for several reasons and I think it’s overheard me discussing those plans. The darn thing kept freaking overheating – even when I wasn’t doing stuff like scanning slides or editing video . I took out the heat sink and fan assembly, cleaned out the radiator vanes at the end of the heat pipe, and managed to drip some alcohol on the fan motor. Then the fan wouldn’t work. It sat there and twitched, but wouldn’t spin until I gave it a little shove with a screw driver . Now it sometimes works. Other times I have to remove four screws, pull up the keyboard and give the fan a bit of a nudge to get it spinning :bang: . I have to be the only person on Planet Earth who has to “hand prop” my computer fan to get it working !

Salvation may be forthcoming in the form of a new Dell computer which happens to be on sale at the moment . Yes, for $591.54 I can have the computer, monitor, keyboard, and mouse delivered to my door . I may just go and do this tonight before I figure out that for some unknown reason I don’t have the money. Especially since I still haven’t figured out how to get at that $1,000,000 yet .

I did find something that brightened my day – some poetic justice out there in the world. These silly criminals really should learn proper firearms safety before they get their guns !

Fox News – Cops: Man Shoots Himself in Groin During Store Robbery

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Associated Press

KOKOMO, Ind. — A man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store, police said.

A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry Tuesday morning demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes. The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge.

Surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants, police said. The clerk wasn’t injured.

A short time later, police found 25-year-old Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg. He was expected to have surgery at a hospital.

Police plan to charge him with armed robbery.

That’s how it goes out here in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. Here’s hoping it’s goin’ even better where you are !