Mom's laptop seemed fast until I tried to it for more than just looking up one thing. I swear that I opened a bunch of tabs and ran Word just fine, but the CPU, RAM, and SSD were maxed out running multiple tabs in Vivaldi, one tab in Brave (The Facebook account that I use with Internet weirdos), Excel, and Zoom. I closed Excel and Brave and it calmed down, although the RAM is hovering around 88%.
Today they are taking away all kinds of cool stuff in World of Warcraft in preparation for taking away more cool stuff TBD. I had planned on staying up late making the most of still enjoying the game and had spent the last few weeks trying to build up my main character so that he could do what I wanted.
After about an hour I started falling asleep, so I decided to sell a bunch of stuff before it lost 75% of its value or something.
My latency skyrocketed and I just went to bed. Maintenance is supposed to be over around now, but I am supposed to be seeing my second client right now, with two more later.
Today was supposed to be my big day to accomplish things, having neglected almost everything yesterday. I compared the Best Buy i3 with those other laptops and then looked at Costco's Black Friday deals last year. I went to mow the front lawn, but couldn't find the extension cord.
It was still in my cordless screwdriver case, ready to build a ramp!
I mowed the front lawn, but when I went to mow the back lawn I discovered that my brother had locked the gate wrong, and I needed to partially remove a handle to unlock the gate. I mowed half of the back lawn and ran power and ethernet back to the shed for my 2:30 client. I grabbed my old laptop and went to copy my work files to a flash drive, but somehow it only has 240 MB available, and the folder is far larger.
Ah. Probably the episodes of "Big Bang Theory!" I wish that I had thought about that before!
I couldn't find my other drive, so I opened the two-pack that I bought for system backups, except it took me too long to open them, even with scissors. When I set down the other one and the package I saw the other flash drive, so I went to use it.
800 MB of random files transferred at 4 MB/s and then I could not log into Zoom. It told me that I was locked out for 30 minutes. I got on my old laptop and couldn't find Zoom. I reinstalled and logged in immediately, but it has horrible connection issues, so I borrowed Mom's laptop, and needed to close stuff just so that I could use it.
All right. The parent responded. Time to get to work!
