January 27, 2010

Wednesday
23:20

Watching Steven Seagal, Lawman. The show is actually not bad.

Well, our computer took a dump tonight. I went in the back room to get online and check my email and found that the monitor would not come on. I turned it off then on again. As it was booting, it brought up a screen with options to boot in safe mode and a some other modes. After 30 seconds, it rebooted on it's own to the same screen. Over and over. I tried to select the different options with the same results. I called my younger brother to see if he cold help. After a while with no progress, he said that it probably needed to be taken to a computer shop to be looked at. Living here in a small town, computer services is a bit lacking. I think there is only two options. We might take it down to Phoenix to see if N can look at it. If he can't do anything, there are numerous options for repair.

Tomorrow, a mechanic is going to take the suburban to run on the computer and see if he can find out what is causing it to run bad. I will also ask him to look at a few other things and give us an estimate so we know what we can afford to have repaired. He fixed the van last week and did a good job. He also fixed P's truck and car. I hope he can fix it for not too much. We would like to go on a few day and over night trips to Phoenix and maybe Flagstaff. Eventually, in the Spring we would like to have it in good enough shape to drive to San Diego.

The kids were being poop heads today. I don't know why they were that way so much today. It could be because they have been inside for the past two weeks because of the snow and rain. Hopefully this weekend we can take them somewhere and release some of their stress and frustration.