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omaewokorosuYesterday Aleks said to me right after waking up
And I went "okay" because that would, in fact, be a Nice Thing to Be Able to Do, use my ThinkPad again after not using it for like...two? three? months.
So he set off to assemble my L desk:
Which admittedly doesn't look like much considering it's in, you know, quite a few pieces. And features hex screws, Aleks' favourite! (Note the sarcasm.) After having to assemble the bed frame out of hex screws and using a provided wrench for nuts that only maybe half worked (and nothing else would because lol proprietary nuts), he's kind of tired of anything that requires some kind of hex key.
AND YET... We have a huge collection of hex keys now thanks to buying, you know, all of this assembly required furniture lmao and this company was kind enough to provide us with TWO!
It didn't take him that long to assemble, maybe 45 minutes total? And I can have it more or less where I want it, so yay!
The final build:
That picture of course is before most things were plugged in or turned on. Aleks was trying to figure out what cables should go where and how they should be routed...that kind of thing. ThinkPad was plugged in, LED indicator was orange showing it was charging... He put in the HDMI cable for the monitor, all of our peripherals. Nothing else. Turned it on.
POST BEEP OF CONCERN™ (meaning something is wrong during boot up procedure and the motherboard is not happy about it)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY THINKPAD???
when was the last time I had to reset a CMOS battery
(not since I had a desktop and lived in Kearny oh shi—)
Aleks just fucking stared at it like it was in a language unknown to him or, well, anyone on Earth. All he had to do was
And restarted it so he could futz around in the BIOS. Which it took him a bit because Aleks I guess is spoiled by some motherboards where the BIOS uses a GUI. ThinkPad does not use a GUI, it is old school keyboard input only. It said the date was 01-01-2001 which...that is an interesting date to reset to lmao. So he put the correct date and time in...
Saved and exited, back to booting into desktop...where the time is off an hour. Turns out the last time the clock had synced up with Microsoft's time/date server was mid-October, which was when DST was still in effect. So a resync fixed that.
We're in business now, baby!
This might not be the final FINAL set up but this is the current "for now" set up. I still need my desk lamp and my mic stand and after that I'll be good to go...for now. I have since added my cup holder/headphone hook on as well.
Can't wait to have my desk chair.
SO TODAY Aleks put away all of our Bath and Body Works sprays and lotions (that he could find of the latter) because we have this AWESOME built-in in the bedroom with 9578349534 drawers that are really deep??? and can fit all of our body sprays which is nice. There are shelves on this built-in as well which is where the lotions are. Front and centre are Sadie's ashes and her little peet prints. I bought some flameless candles to put around them that will always be on. I do want a proper memorial table of sorts for her so we can place pictures as well, but for now... It's a nice space.
I found a really nice memorial ornament for our sweet girl...and what stole my breath away was the default picture:
It was for a Sadie. Not the Sadie, but someone's Sadie. And though I've seen the name on plenty of dogs and a couple of cats, it's not really a common name you hear for someone's cat, at least in my experience.
It was a toss-up between that one and one that said
IN LOVING MEMORY
[PET NAME]
IF LOVE ALONE COULD HAVE KEPT YOU HERE, YOU WOULD HAVE LIVED FOREVER
I chose the one that says Sadie by default because I thought it was, in some small way, meant to be. I was meant to pick this one in particular out.
Our last pictures together. These were taken on the 7th of November... The last pictures I took of her were the day she crossed over a week later.
Until we meet again, Grey Lady... You will always be Our Meowjesty.
I want to get your desk built so you can finally use your computer again.
And I went "okay" because that would, in fact, be a Nice Thing to Be Able to Do, use my ThinkPad again after not using it for like...two? three? months.
So he set off to assemble my L desk:
Which admittedly doesn't look like much considering it's in, you know, quite a few pieces. And features hex screws, Aleks' favourite! (Note the sarcasm.) After having to assemble the bed frame out of hex screws and using a provided wrench for nuts that only maybe half worked (and nothing else would because lol proprietary nuts), he's kind of tired of anything that requires some kind of hex key.
AND YET... We have a huge collection of hex keys now thanks to buying, you know, all of this assembly required furniture lmao and this company was kind enough to provide us with TWO!
It didn't take him that long to assemble, maybe 45 minutes total? And I can have it more or less where I want it, so yay!
The final build:
That picture of course is before most things were plugged in or turned on. Aleks was trying to figure out what cables should go where and how they should be routed...that kind of thing. ThinkPad was plugged in, LED indicator was orange showing it was charging... He put in the HDMI cable for the monitor, all of our peripherals. Nothing else. Turned it on.
POST BEEP OF CONCERN™ (meaning something is wrong during boot up procedure and the motherboard is not happy about it)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY THINKPAD???
CMOS BATTERY RESET, PLEASE ENTER BIOS TO SET DATE/TIMEwhen was the last time I had to reset a CMOS battery
(not since I had a desktop and lived in Kearny oh shi—)
Aleks just fucking stared at it like it was in a language unknown to him or, well, anyone on Earth. All he had to do was
press Enter to continue startup or press F1 to enter startup options. Keep in mind he hadn't had any caffeine so maybe that's why he was a little slow on the uptake. He pressed Enter and everything proceeded normally...until a message popped up saying VERY LOW BATTERY before powering off. You would think that because it was plugged in that it would, you know, be okay. But I guess it was low enough that even plugged in it couldn't stay on. So we just let it charge for like 15 minutes before turning everything on again. Then it was all good and everything that needed to be plugged in could finally be plugged in (cooling dock, secondary monitor, all my external HDDs, my trackball, my keyboard) without there being some kind of issue-problem.And restarted it so he could futz around in the BIOS. Which it took him a bit because Aleks I guess is spoiled by some motherboards where the BIOS uses a GUI. ThinkPad does not use a GUI, it is old school keyboard input only. It said the date was 01-01-2001 which...that is an interesting date to reset to lmao. So he put the correct date and time in...
Saved and exited, back to booting into desktop...where the time is off an hour. Turns out the last time the clock had synced up with Microsoft's time/date server was mid-October, which was when DST was still in effect. So a resync fixed that.
We're in business now, baby!
This might not be the final FINAL set up but this is the current "for now" set up. I still need my desk lamp and my mic stand and after that I'll be good to go...for now. I have since added my cup holder/headphone hook on as well.
Can't wait to have my desk chair.
SO TODAY Aleks put away all of our Bath and Body Works sprays and lotions (that he could find of the latter) because we have this AWESOME built-in in the bedroom with 9578349534 drawers that are really deep??? and can fit all of our body sprays which is nice. There are shelves on this built-in as well which is where the lotions are. Front and centre are Sadie's ashes and her little peet prints. I bought some flameless candles to put around them that will always be on. I do want a proper memorial table of sorts for her so we can place pictures as well, but for now... It's a nice space.
I found a really nice memorial ornament for our sweet girl...and what stole my breath away was the default picture:
It was for a Sadie. Not the Sadie, but someone's Sadie. And though I've seen the name on plenty of dogs and a couple of cats, it's not really a common name you hear for someone's cat, at least in my experience.
It was a toss-up between that one and one that said
IN LOVING MEMORY
[PET NAME]
IF LOVE ALONE COULD HAVE KEPT YOU HERE, YOU WOULD HAVE LIVED FOREVER
I chose the one that says Sadie by default because I thought it was, in some small way, meant to be. I was meant to pick this one in particular out.
Our last pictures together. These were taken on the 7th of November... The last pictures I took of her were the day she crossed over a week later.
Until we meet again, Grey Lady... You will always be Our Meowjesty.
