Tad's Life

Jane is out mixing up several cakes. It's someone's birthday on staff tomorrow and it is her turn to bring the snack. It was also her turn to do devotions this morning for the staff. It kind of all fell on one day, somehow.

Being a teacher some days brings extra burdens. Friday, though, Jane and I will head down with the rest of the staff and spouses to a resort for a couple days off. The school builds that into the schedule knowing that the pressures, especially on new staff, reach critical levels in mid September. A couple days of relaxing by the pool and sleeping in air conditioning usually help a bit.

My day’s little success was figuring out how to add to the RAM of our desktop. It should have been an easy thing. I had an extra RAM card. But when I plugged it in (yes, with everything all unplugged and all that), the computer actually ceased to work. I mean really. Dead. In the end, I actually updated the BIOS. I’ve never done that before. I read afterwards that if the power had gone out mid-update, I may have never rebooted again. It’s a good thing I didn’t know ahead of time! But anyway, when I updated the BIOS, ta-dah!!! It worked. 50% more RAM. Lots more speed.

Now if I have the same success with adding a supplemental USB port card. We may actually be able to use this thing again.