Doug's Sounding Board

This year started off as a great year for apples. I’m a fuji fan so this is mostly targetted at that variety but it hasn’t looked much better in the other piles. The early part of the year has very tasty crispy apples and then they suddenly vanished to be repalced by the enormous, un-ripe, […]

Why is it going so slow?! It detects the media as 4X and says it’s writing at 4X, but the speed is more like 1X. On the bright side it is writing reliably, but I want the higher speed!

We saw the trailer for the new King Kong movie from Peter Jackson coming this December. I didn’t know anything about it other than it was happening and I was excited to see that it is set in the 30s like the original. In fact, it seems like it will be a better made (effects-wise […]

Yesterday morning as I was preparing to go to work, I had my computer delete the file I had just downloaded. This morning in trying out the voice recorder function on the mp3 player I just got I deleted the files since I couldn’t hear them. Then I saw that my headphones weren’t plugged in. […]

Yesterday in trying to get ready for Julie’s graduation Nicole was goign to use the RV shower. This is the first time using the shower in the RV so we didn’t really know what to expect. The hot water heater was on for the 30 minutes it needed to warm up. Nicole got in, turned […]

There was bubbling in the paint. Looking on exterminator sites, this is one of the indications of termites. The painter sees no evidence and thinks that it’s from oiled wood (only want to get rid of the oil is to replace the wood). I’ll call for an inspection to see what’s up.

Yesterday Nicole and I went to Home Depot in Watsonville to get a new medicine cabinet for Dar’s bathroom. We find the medicine cabinets and even find one we like. Then we find that they don’t have any so we go to the customer service desk to special order it. The CS desk says they […]

I finally had a change to ask the internet about the “Adobe Premiere could not grab a frame buffer error” I wou;d get when trying to render the movie to a DVD format. It was frustrating because it woul dbe working and then stop. Well I found there is an up date to fix that […]

Sunday we decided that would need to rip out all the moldy smelly carpet, which means we need to pull out everythign in the room. While everything is out it’s the perfect opportunity to paint the room something that isn’t yellow. We went to OSH and picked out some paint and ran other errands before […]

On Friday afternoon a wet spot was on the floor of the computer room. At first it was thought that one of the dogs had peed in protest since the other one did so earlier in the day. But that night we saw the wet spot grew. Then we saw that the carpet was wet elsewhere and that various paper things on the floor had absorbed a lot of water.