It's a three day weekend. Planned a few chores, some time around the pool and the barbecue. Then things took a different turn. First, my computer decides it's time to really crap out on me. It's been getting gradually worse for a while. I thought maybe the power supply was dying on me, and may still be, but the symptoms were a gradual loss of extra devices. The USB ports became very sensitive of which devices were plugged in and which port they were in. System boots would sometimes freeze up (three or four times even) before loading the desktop. Finally, this morning, the USB devices just disappeared. This was especially disturbing because it includes the keyboard and mouse. Moving devices around didn't help, it simply did not see the USB hardware. Looking at the system devices showed that there was no USB hardware at all, which was more disturbing because there was no failed hardware, just a big empty nothing.
This was way too much distress for a holiday weekend. So my wife and I decided to go out and see a movie. In the process, my car now has decided to display an engine check light.
Oh well, at least I have a job. It may pay only half of what I used to make, and it may not pay for holidays, but, at least it's better than unemployment benefits.
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