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Apr. 23rd, 2011 07:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meitantei_cjHOW MANY INFOMERCIALS CAN YOU SHOW IN ONE DAY?!! I'm thinking I finally have something decent to watch, and they throw regular programming out for a "special report" that turns out to be someone trying to sell some freaking skin cream. This has to be the only place in the world that shows infomericals at every waking hour. It's bad when the most entertaining thing is the Weather Channel. I wish I were joking.
In other news, my laptop? I got my new battery, charged it overnight, and tried turning it on this morning. It didn't come on. I used Dad's laptop to e-mail Gateway support (I'm far out of warranty, but still was worth a shot) and said I'd looked at the manuals and replaced both the battery and the charger, and done a power reset, and nothing worked. Support sent me back an e-mail saying because I was out of warranty, I could only get very basic support. Basic support turns out to be exactly what I needed. They sent me a link to their notebook support page regarding powering on. Before that, I'd been looking at the user manual for convertible laptops, because that's what mine is, so I looked at the notebook page instead. It mentioned the power lock switch. I was like, "Power lock switch? WTF?" and I looked down, and right next to the power button is a 1/4" switch with a lock symbol beside it; the switch was in the lock position. I flipped it up, pressed the power button, and boom, we had liftoff.
Nowhere did the manual for convertible laptops mention that thing. I could've had my laptop back ages ago. I'd have had to replace the battery, but argh. Why wouldn't you put that sort of thing in the manual? How'd the switch even get down in the first place?
Trying to draw, but failing badly. I might just leave everything until I get home tomorrow.
Oliver seems to be doing better already. He's not happy about the pills, but he just has to deal with it! He's still trying to get tastier food out of me, too. I'll put his dry food down and he'll look at me funny, but eventually he goes over to it and eats.
Doctor Who = yay :D Dad and I have already seen it. We don't get BBCA here, so downloading had to happen.
In other news, my laptop? I got my new battery, charged it overnight, and tried turning it on this morning. It didn't come on. I used Dad's laptop to e-mail Gateway support (I'm far out of warranty, but still was worth a shot) and said I'd looked at the manuals and replaced both the battery and the charger, and done a power reset, and nothing worked. Support sent me back an e-mail saying because I was out of warranty, I could only get very basic support. Basic support turns out to be exactly what I needed. They sent me a link to their notebook support page regarding powering on. Before that, I'd been looking at the user manual for convertible laptops, because that's what mine is, so I looked at the notebook page instead. It mentioned the power lock switch. I was like, "Power lock switch? WTF?" and I looked down, and right next to the power button is a 1/4" switch with a lock symbol beside it; the switch was in the lock position. I flipped it up, pressed the power button, and boom, we had liftoff.
Nowhere did the manual for convertible laptops mention that thing. I could've had my laptop back ages ago. I'd have had to replace the battery, but argh. Why wouldn't you put that sort of thing in the manual? How'd the switch even get down in the first place?
Trying to draw, but failing badly. I might just leave everything until I get home tomorrow.
Oliver seems to be doing better already. He's not happy about the pills, but he just has to deal with it! He's still trying to get tastier food out of me, too. I'll put his dry food down and he'll look at me funny, but eventually he goes over to it and eats.
Doctor Who = yay :D Dad and I have already seen it. We don't get BBCA here, so downloading had to happen.
