The reformat of the laptop went. Of course, if you went to the link I provided yesterday, you would have seen that it restores the system to the original state, with all the software installed. Including bloatware. Like the AOL crap and the Earthlink crap. I went through and got rid of all the software I don’t want, like the pre-installed music software, photo editing software, etc. because I’ve got my own that I want to use. And one of the first things that I took off was the Norton virus program and installed TrendMicro’s virus software.
I took care of this while I was cooking dinner. After dinner, I came back to the office, took my FishWrangler skips (that was down a good portion of the day yesterday; one of the reasons I decided it would be an opportune time to clean up the laptop) and shut down. And I went back to the family room to start watching some television while I finished up with the laptop.
I did the dishes (but not the pots and pans, I like them to soak a little….the soaked more than a little, they soaked overnight…real easy to clean this morning) and set the dishwasher to go off in four hours. We went to bed around eleven last night, Brian was up an hour before me this morning, back on his computer. When I got up, I fed Miss Elizabeth in the bathroom (she’s doing great, has a wonderful, wonderful appetite) and gave the rest of the cats their morning kibble. I got breakfast dished up for KittyMeezer. Heated that up and took it outside for him.
Then I went through the house and opened up the blinds. When I did the laundry room, I noticed the floor by the door was soaking wet. I keep a pee pad down there with a disposable pad on top, since Marco likes to pee there. But this wet was beyond anything Marco could do. Nice. I called out for Brian to come in there.
He came in from the office and looked at the floor. “Man, that’s a lot of pee!” I shook my head and rolled my eyes. “It’s not pee. It’s from the dishwasher.”
So, he has to pull out the dishwasher and check the hoses. It would appear there’s a split in one.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a spill from the dishwasher, which was because the door wasn’t completely shut. But there was water in the kitchen and the laundry room that day. This morning, it was just the laundry room.
Oh, the joys of home ownership.
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