Random Fun

Carrie experimented with screen mirroring tonight. That meant she got to play cell-phone games while Shane cheered.

"That looks like Daddy," Shane said.

"No, his hair is too red," Carrie replied. Then it clicked. "It's Uncle Matt! Cheer for Uncle Matt!"

Shane cheered!

We decided Uncle Matt forgot to buy a present for Aunt Renee. Now, he was on the run. He needed to pick up as much coins as possible to buy a gift to make up (and survive).

It never ended well, but Matt earned enough for a present one time. Happy ending!

Portal

Carrie introduced Shane to Portal today. She couldn't resist a play-through to test the new hard drive's performance.

Deadtop

Thursday, 8:00 PM: The laptop decided it could boot no longer.

The hard drive was not listed as a boot-able object in setup. The warranty expired months and months ago, so Carrie and I opened the laptop up for a looksy.

I used to open up and build desktops. Times have changed. Everything is a third of the size, four times the power, and there's no need to reach through a mess of IDE and power cords going to all the peripherals.

Symptoms pointed to a hard drive issue.

I texted John some pictures to reminisce. He suggested I should move the HD to a new SATA port to make sure it wasn't a port/connection error.

The HD didn't work on the new port either. Carrie started to research replacement prices online. We ordered a smaller replacement HD off Amazon for $80. It didn't have the gigs of pictures and videos the old HD had, but it was much cheaper than buying a new computer.

A couple of days later, Carrie got the bright idea to cannibalize our other really old laptop for it's hard drive.

And it worked! How else would I post this?