As some have probably figured out, I am NOT a computer whiz. If mine breaks down, I just load it in the car or truck ad drive the 30-40 minutes to my guru. I have learned to not mess with it if punching keys won’t fix it.
I do, on Saturday mornings while riding in my truck between yards, listen in to a computer advise call in program on WTIC, Hartford.
When we have a severe storm brewing, I have learned that I should shut down my toy before the storm forces down time. First, I shut off the printer and then, as the storm winds pick up, I finally shut down the computer. Once the power does go off and I get the Genny fired up, I get back on computer to bring bookkeeping up to date and for several days ahead before shutting down again.
This past Saturday I was listening and the X=pert of the program said we should not go onto internet when running on generator power. He explained why (don’t ask me to explain. He sounded reasonable and who am I to argue. I know not. ), but the idea was that ones computer can fry from the voltage and current variations caused by fluxuations of generator power.
I could not get onto internet anyhow as cable was gone also. I could fire up my computer so I started organizing some of my bookkeeping. I also started writing a report to be sent to all of my customers. Along the way, I decided to write a series of short stories for a young waitress (very cute BTW) from where THE BOSS and I go for dinner nearly every Friday evening. I just found out the young lady is Korean (her parents born in Korea but she in San Francisco) Having been in her parents and grandparents areas a couple of years ago :
I told her I would give her a little “history” of my own travels and observations. As I was bored with business reports, I decided to do something I had promised. Now, you guys all know how I really hate to write stories, but somebody has to do the tough jobs once in a while. [sad]
I ended up banging away for a couple of hours (remember > on generator power) until I had to go work of cleaning up the driveway. The next morning, I decided to get back onto my stories (not about the fighting, but tales more interesting to a young college student of today.) As I brought the files up on the screen, I got a message that they were unreadable by my program, but I could duplicate and save. Uh Oh!!! I did as the computer told me and the duplicate gave me a whole page of **************. OOPS! [scared] I then was worried that some of my business docs might have been destroyed as well.
Now we have power back on, I have checked and it appears the only file that was lost was that with the Korean stories. Since those were from memories, no problem. (for those of you who might have been there at same time as I, you might be saying “No prwobrem, GI”) I don’t know if the loss was actually from generator fluctuations or not. I do have an old lap top that has no important info on it so I did redo my stories. I can E-mail to the newer computer and do my editing.
Any how, That is the biggest set back from THE storm for me, other than taking a few days vacation while roads were made passable and electricity restored. I have noticed that several friends on the FOG managed to send pics and notes to the site. I am sure you were on generator power. I have never had any problems with working on my computer with generator power before, but I do take this most recent “prwobrem” as fair warning. It’s like feeding fingers to a saw or jointer, it never happened before, but when it does, you never forget.
Tinker
I do, on Saturday mornings while riding in my truck between yards, listen in to a computer advise call in program on WTIC, Hartford.
When we have a severe storm brewing, I have learned that I should shut down my toy before the storm forces down time. First, I shut off the printer and then, as the storm winds pick up, I finally shut down the computer. Once the power does go off and I get the Genny fired up, I get back on computer to bring bookkeeping up to date and for several days ahead before shutting down again.
This past Saturday I was listening and the X=pert of the program said we should not go onto internet when running on generator power. He explained why (don’t ask me to explain. He sounded reasonable and who am I to argue. I know not. ), but the idea was that ones computer can fry from the voltage and current variations caused by fluxuations of generator power.
I could not get onto internet anyhow as cable was gone also. I could fire up my computer so I started organizing some of my bookkeeping. I also started writing a report to be sent to all of my customers. Along the way, I decided to write a series of short stories for a young waitress (very cute BTW) from where THE BOSS and I go for dinner nearly every Friday evening. I just found out the young lady is Korean (her parents born in Korea but she in San Francisco) Having been in her parents and grandparents areas a couple of years ago :
I told her I would give her a little “history” of my own travels and observations. As I was bored with business reports, I decided to do something I had promised. Now, you guys all know how I really hate to write stories, but somebody has to do the tough jobs once in a while. [sad]I ended up banging away for a couple of hours (remember > on generator power) until I had to go work of cleaning up the driveway. The next morning, I decided to get back onto my stories (not about the fighting, but tales more interesting to a young college student of today.) As I brought the files up on the screen, I got a message that they were unreadable by my program, but I could duplicate and save. Uh Oh!!! I did as the computer told me and the duplicate gave me a whole page of **************. OOPS! [scared] I then was worried that some of my business docs might have been destroyed as well.
Now we have power back on, I have checked and it appears the only file that was lost was that with the Korean stories. Since those were from memories, no problem. (for those of you who might have been there at same time as I, you might be saying “No prwobrem, GI”) I don’t know if the loss was actually from generator fluctuations or not. I do have an old lap top that has no important info on it so I did redo my stories. I can E-mail to the newer computer and do my editing.
Any how, That is the biggest set back from THE storm for me, other than taking a few days vacation while roads were made passable and electricity restored. I have noticed that several friends on the FOG managed to send pics and notes to the site. I am sure you were on generator power. I have never had any problems with working on my computer with generator power before, but I do take this most recent “prwobrem” as fair warning. It’s like feeding fingers to a saw or jointer, it never happened before, but when it does, you never forget.
Tinker
