I have found him

Sickness 2009

After dodging the bugs during December & January, it finally got me on the month of February. Although close moments, no vomiting this time. Futurama watched: 20+ episodes, 3 movies.

Thursday: Freezing cold, tiredness
Friday: Icky throat, tiredness, start of headache, shivering
Saturday: Fever (100°F), major headache, loss of appetite, difficulty sleep, dizziness, minor runny nose, weakness
Sunday: Fever (101°F) that went down, minor headache, icky throat, minor runny nose, hours of heavy coughing
Monday: No Fever (97°F), icky throat with thick yellow mucous when spit out
Tuesday: No Fever (98°F), icky throat, runny/very watery nose, headache in background, burning eyes
Wednesday: Slightly icky throat, sinus, runny watery nose, violent headache, difficulty sleep due to headache and external factors

Sickness 2008:
Day 1: Icky throat
Fever
Shivering

Day 2: Severe headache
High fever
Shivering
Vomiting
Muscle pain
Loss of appetite
Violent coughing
Difficulity sleeping

Day 3: Headache that eventually went down
Coughing with mucous

Day 4: Headache
Coughing

Day 5: Runny watery nose
Some coughing
Sinus

Day 6: Some Coughing
Minimal runny nose

Sickness 2006:
phase 1: icky throat, tiredness, headache
phase 2: runny nose, minor headache
phase 3: minor coughing, runny nose
phase 4: coughing coughing, runny nose

Extensions as of 1/1/2009

And again I go.

Go Firefox.

It's December. It's Cold.

You've seen Maple (Syrup), the brown bear. Meet her polar bear "cousin." Maple (Sugar), the polar bear who is called Hayley.




Eventually I will get their black bear "cousin," Molasses.

How very odd

Go Firefox?

Somewhat Maple Tea

Comfy cupholder.

Hey, it's November 4

Weather: Rain/Cloudy
Time in line: 2 hours, 13 minutes
Episodes of "30 Rock" watched on the iPod while waiting in line: 5
Estimated number of people I have seen today: 250
Cups of Starbucks gotten for free due to promotion: 2

copying files to a microSD card

You copy a bunch of files to the microSD card and you get an error message saying, "The directory or file cannot be created."

I assume you copied only 116 files at this point. I also assume you copied it directly onto the root directory of the microSD.

The solution to this is simple.

Create a folder in the microSD, copy the files into that folder.

Done.

Yeah, Right, Whatever.

At least shipping is free.

iPod Center Button Woes

The rubber underneath the center button shifted again and I had to open and realign it again. I decided to put a bit of glue on it. A few clicks later it happened again. So I decided to put more glue.

Stuck iPod Center Button

I noticed the iPod's center button was stuck. It was "sunk" into the clickwheel. It didn't make a click but the button worked if I pushed down hard. That was unacceptable and my thumbs were hurting. I was a concerned as the 5.5G iPod Video was woefully out of warranty and do not want to shell out ~$20-75 for a repair. The screen, battery, hard drive, clickwheel were perfectly fine. Just that damn single center button.

It all had to do with a misaligned piece of rubber. Now I have an excuse to pry open the iPod.



1. Open the iPod and expose underneath the clickwheel
2. Move the little rubber piece to the center of the metal contact
3. Put everything back to normal and close iPod



The center button works fine now. The process took less than 10 minutes.

Well, I guess don't have to choose between a 120 GB 6G iPod Classic, 16 GB 4G iPod Nano, or 16 GB 2G iPod Touch just yet. Until the LCD or hard disk fails...



Keep on, Maple.

Mice, Mouses, and Pointing Devices

Microsoft Wheelmouse (Ball)
Grudgingly still works and in perfect condition. Rollers need to be cleaned. PS/2 only.
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3 (Optical)
LMB doubleclicks on a click.
Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 4 (Optical)
LMB & RMB often doesn't register a click and must be pressed hard.
Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (Laser)
Exterior is literally falling apart. Rubber of mousewheel flaking off.
Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (Laser)
The normally loose mousewheel gets stiff.





Time to clean up, Maple.

Staring at the table

Though they're seven years apart, but still.

Getting stuff out of Notepad

Bear with me again.

Slushie is a relatively new polar bear. Normally he would spend time with the other three bears but they've been gone for months. Slushie is bored. Klondike is lazily lying on the bed. Little Klondike and Black Bear are playing video games. Maple for some reason is drinking tea with Sugar Maple. So what is Slushie to do?

It's Maple (Again)