TrentonMakes

tried that too, no go.

Perhaps. If the laptop has no battery installed and it's plugged into the wall, will it still work?

I think I've eaten enough yogurt in the 1 to 2 weeks past range, and it seemed fine, and I think two weeks was just the arbitrary line I decided not to push past. We would always end up finding one in the back of the fridge from 3 months ago and that went right in the trash.

Back when I ate yogurt, my cutoff date was two weeks.

Last evening my [HP] laptop was behaving normally - it stayed plugged into the wall overnight as usual. This morning, out of the blue, it's a brick. Completely unresponsive, no indicator lights, no fan, nothing. Tried a different power supply - nothing. From something I found online I tried removing the battery, letting it sit and then plugging it in - nothing. I'm taking it to Best Buy in a little while. Honestly I've never been thrilled with this thing - it's only maybe two years old but it's been a little sluggish from the start, maybe something else wrong with it? If worse comes to worst, as long as I can pull the data off the hard drive I'll consider it a win. Did you ever get into this situation - and successfully get out?

Two white cars in our history - my '91 Taurus SHO, and a '06 Chrysler minivan that was my wife's daily driver.

happy birthday!

My [boomer] parents moved into a 55+ community 20 years ago (as soon as they qualified), and they've moved twice since then, to other 55+ communities. Our family was uprooted by Big Business in 1993 so my parents had already left what they thought would be their "forever home". Sentimentality was no longer a factor for them. We, on the other hand, have a modest sized 3BR ranch with laundry on the first floor (bought in 2005). Our daughter was 2 when we moved in and our son was born a year later. Sentimentality is definitely a factor for us. We will plan to stay as long as we can (though retirement with NJ property taxes is a scary proposition).

I hope all is well this morning.

NJM's headquarters is in our town, about 3 miles down the road. On weekends when the site's mostly empty I like to ride a loop around their site. Easy way to tack on a traffic-free mile to a ride.

you did that on purpose!

yikes! hope you're OK.

I guess that's my problem - I have a beast of a commercial walk-behind, and clutching/turning is a real upper body workout. It cut nearly an hour off the time to do the entire yard, compared to the standard 22" cut mower I used to use.

Friday's weather was lousy, most of Saturday was taken up by the kids' events, and I was grumbling Sunday morning because much of a nice day for bike riding was going to be taken up with yard work that I hadn't been able to do the previous days. Maybe 10 years ago one of my friends from college said he'd started to pay someone to cut the grass - said "it was a no-brainer". I disagreed, citing the feeling that I could make the property look nice through my efforts. Also, kind of like the shower, I've always found lawn mowing to be a good time to get some thinking done. So yesterday morning after listening to me grumble, my wife offered that she'd be happy to hire someone to mow, to give me more time. I hadn't been thinking about that... but I am now. Last year I was having an issue with one of the safeties on the mower - there's a lever that is only supposed to kill the engine if the blades are engaged, but it kills the engine all the time now. That makes it pretty hard to start. I wish I had left myself a note, because I completely forgot about this when I tried to fire it up for the first time. I wasted half an hour until I remembered. Now I have a nice clean spark plug, and a heavy spring clip to hold that lever down (that's my fix for now).

22 windy miles.