Re: Hard Drive Failure Reprise

On 12/13/24 3:50 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

  My motherboard is not housed in a box, but rather it is completely
open on a small table.   

Oh, you don't have pets then.
You must be living in one of those places that are sterile like in a trendy jewelry store.
A few years back, kind of by accident, I found a girl whom I knew from Tehran University years when I had a crush on her. Now she was single and available, with her only daughter married and away. A chemistry developed between us fast, both highly educated, both Iranian (thank God! I was sick of cro-magnons blabbering stuff in English), both physicists, and with that sweet background from early 1970s behind us; and this was going to get serious too until I saw where she lived. It was one of those "jewelry store" types settings in a high rise apt building, complete with a wide view of Lake Ontario. I dumped her soon after that!
I remember so well what I asked her just out of curiosity when I saw her place. "When is the last time your hands have come in touch with dead leaves? She asked me why? I said because just two days back I gathered and tightly packed eight 40-Gallon sacks of trash bags with dead leaves."
She understood me, and said she was like that up until 10 years prior to that but had since changed some "priorities" in life.
I couldn't even breathe in a place like that.
And 25 years prior to that little but special affair, I had dumped another perfect match for some other reason that had the same sterility theme about it.
Me:    "Why do you keep all the windows so tightly closed all the time?"
Her:   "I'm allergic to outside air."
Dumped her!