Lazy Blogger and Computer Woes

It seems that the longer I am away from the blog the harder it is to come back.  I am getting really lazy about blogging, I just the "new" has definitely worn off after blogging since May of 2005.

The last week or so has been interesting for me computer wise.  My computer decided that it was tired and kept shutting off and turning on, it wasn't the power source, so off it went to the hospital.  The fellow thought he had fixed it; but he hadn't.  I had been tossing around the idea of getting a new one for awhile now as that one I had purchased in 2004 and other than adding an extra 1 GB of RAM and spending a few dollars here and there on it, it didn't owe me anything.
I talked to a few of the computer sales places in town and got the best price from our regular service guys so decided to order a new one.  In the meantime I got them to pull the extra 1 GB RAM out of my old one and put it into Roys old PC which still worked; but was so slow it drove me insane.  While I waited for my new one I used that one.

The new one arrived at the delivery place supposedly; but when the fellow went to pick it up it was no where to be found, so he called and ordered another one.  This one arrived late Saturday night and he brought it over on Sunday to set it up.  After he left I downloaded Skype and my VOIP phone service that I use and I couldn't get the headphones and mic. to work in the front panel.  I called him back and he came and tried and he couldn't get it working either.  He took it to his shop and ended up going back to Hermosillo for them to get it working.

He came back with it last night about 7 PM and it is all working now.  He told me that for some reason those connections on the front had been de-activated, he had no idea why.

Anyway it is all working good now so I have no excuses left.

What I bought was this:

Processor:  Core 3- 540 64 bits dual core 3.06 GHZ
RAM:  4GB
Hard Drive:  500 GB
And all the other usual stuff.

I stayed with a PC as I don't have as much faith in the durability of a laptop and we have one already that we can travel with if we want to.  I stayed with my old monitor for now.

I probably could have gotten it cheaper if I would have gone shopping in a bigger center; but when you do that you are adding all the other costs onto it anyway so you may as well buy at home IMO.

Anyway I am sure someone will wonder what the cost was, it was 6,500 pesos or more or less $ 496.08 CAD.  I have no idea if that is a horrible price or a good one; but it is what it is.

  I am also glad I bought from them as they are usually good with their service and also make house calls for 100 pesos, about $7.63 CAD.  If they can't fix the problem at your home they take it to the shop and then return it.  The house call covers the return part also.

So that has been what I have been up to lately computer wise.

Christmas Eating

Well, we ate our way through Christmas again this year and our tummies thanked us.
We spent Christmas Eve with our landlords family and had a lovely dinner with them.  She is an excellent cook and we had stuffed pork loin, breaded fish and shrimp, mashed potatoes, pasta salad, beans, ceviche, etc..  All excellent.  It was cold so she also had atole, which she told me she had made with pinole (sweetened toasted corn meal) for a change, along with other refrescos.  We waddled back upstairs to sleep it off until Christmas Day.
Christmas Day we went out to San Carlos to have late lunch/early dinner with our friends there.  One lady brought a flan for desert, we took the caramel sauce for the Christmas pudding and some gingersnap cookies and their company from up north helped her prepare the usual turkey dinner.  Again all was delicious and we vegged out and visited.
We haven't been doing much else since then other than eating the rest of the cookies that I have been making lately.  It has been chilly here so I have been baking to heat up the place.  Naturally once it is baked we eat it.
It has been cold and snowing up in the mountains in Arizona so we have been getting a lot of cold air here from that.  Thankfully the last few days it has begun to warm back up a bit.
I have a post to make about the despedida de soltera that I went to a few weeks ago; but have been lazy.
Happy New Year to all.