Tag: tech

Vacuum Tube Rabbit Hole

I saw a post on a BookFayce group for tube amps today where the poster asked where he could find American made vacuum tubes. The answer is, you can’t. There are only three plants on Earth that make tubes (valves, for our British readers). One is in China, one is in Russia, and one is in… Slovakia. Some one told me earlier… I think that’s the three.

Someone joked that if you want American made tubes you need to make them yourself. HarHar. Some one else shared this video, which explains why you ain’t makin’ homemade tubes any time soon.

Blown glass, eh? Yeah. Not today.

When that video ended there was a link to another video called How A Tube Works (questionable grammar there, the “A” should be lower case). I started watching the video but it’s long and lunch ended. I understand about 3% of it so far. I’m saving it off for later.

WiFi Fail

12 weeks of everyone working and going to school from home and I never had a problem with our home network…

Until today.

I was on a video meeting with my boss and one of my staff members and I lost the network for a second. Then it recovered. It wasn’t even bad enough to kick me off the call. A minute later though, bam. Total WiFi fail. I had to pull my USB network adapter and plug it back in. That fixed the problem, but I was totally discombobulated for the rest of the meeting.

Hey network, how’s about we don’t do that again, m’kay?

Slow Motion

I feel like the universe is moving in slow motion tonight. I stayed logged in to work to monitor something. I’m not actually working, I just want to keep an eye on things until it finishes. Three hours past quittin’ time and counting. Come on, go faster.

As noted in the previous post, I am setting up a new MacBook Pro. I loaded up the most recent backup from my old MacBook Pro (from about 5:00 this evening) and it took hours and hours to finish. Once I finally got it up and running it prompted me to take a MacOS update. Ugh. 42 minutes still to go…..

Slow…. Motion….

Lost

I did some good work on May Music last night. Four songs got lyrics and melodies. When I finished I backed everything up. Today the computer crashed and I had to wipe it. I lost yesterday’s work, but I had the backup.

Nope.

The backup didn’t save correctly. Yesterday’s changes are all gone for good.

Worlds Colliding Part 2

This is insanity on a level hereforto never imagined.  Is herforto a word?  No… no it isn’t.

I am back on my MacBook, but now I am using the keyboard from my work PC.  Oh the humanity!  I have the MacBook, my work PC, my work keyboard, and the USB mouse I use on my normal telecommuting laptop and they are all mixed and matched and both computers are using the same monitor and keyboard and mouse all depending on the pressing of one button and the plugging of one cable.

Goodness gracious me, what have I done?

Worlds Colliding

Wow, this feels weird.  I am sitting at home in our home office, typing this post on my work computer… without remote connecting.  My work PC is on my home desk.  I had to get a USB Wifi Network Adapter to make it work, and boy was installing that little sucker a pain in the ol’ rumpus room, let me tell you.

Anyway, now I just need to remember how to setup the work VPN and I should be good to go… I think.