*headdesk*

Jan. 19th, 2007 02:24 pm
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I am confident that I am a reasonably intelligent person.  And yet, The Beast (aka, our snowblower) continually outwits me.  There are just too damn many steps to getting the thing running!  So, for y'all's amusement and my own records (if I write it down, maybe I'll actually remember them all), here's the process:
  1. Get The Beast out of the garage.
  2. Put in the key.
  3. Check & top off gas.
  4. Put in drive pin.
  5. Turn it on.
  6. Turn knob to "choke".
  7. Prime it.
  8. Start it.
  9. Wait.
  10. Turn knob to "drive".
  11. Blow snow.
My problem is doing all of the things between 2 and 6.  They don't actually have to be done in any particular order, but the thing won't start in drive, it won't start if it's not turned on, and it's next to impossible to steer if you don't put the drive pin in (which can be done after it's started, but it's harder).
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OK, not really, but I finally tracked down the solution to an annoying computer problem that I'd been having, namely that iPhoto flat-out refused to print, but in a really weird way.  It would spool the job to the printer, the job would appear in the "completed jobs" list, but the pictures would never actually get printed.  I knew the problem was iPhoto and not the printer because 1) I can always print from other apps and 2) if I queued up 2 jobs (the first iPhoto, the second something else), only the second job would print but both would show up as "completed".   So today I finally got myself organized enough to go through the support forums at apple.com and found a description of a similar problem.  The solution?  Delete the iPhoto preferences file.  Boom!  Works like a charm now.  Yay!
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Find me a decent customer service contact e-mail address for Blogger.  I've come up completely freaking empty, and it's making me crazy.

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