Change and decay all about I see...

After thirty years, the family refrigerator finally began to slowly swoon into the arm,s of entropy, i.e., a slow freon leak was causing its contents to rot and go bad. Fixing the leak involved replacing a lot of parts (est total $927) due to it using a type of freon no longer produced. So a new one was ordered and it arrived this afternoon some time before I expected it, resulting in a rush to remove the remaining items from the old fridge. I must say the ice maker was still heroically churning them out right to the end, which is more than the ice maker in the new fridge (according to the manual, we won't get any for 24 hours, and according to the delivery guy, we'll have o throw the first batch out due to stuff. So...)

On a more serious note, the machine I used to access the intarwebz went tits up last Thursday, at least the HD did. I managed to get some stuff off before it went blooey, but not everything. I now have three IDE HDs in this disagreeable state, and in the meantime what to do about my internet stuff? Simple, stroll over to the local computer place to see if they have any $149 refurbs on hand (they had one) running Win7 (I already got one for scanning family pictures and was surprised to see how well it ran). I had the idea of loading a version of Linux on it but it stubbornly refused to load, so I decided to just run W7 and see how long that goes. So far so good - even better, I can listen to Hearts of Space and Thistle & Shamrock, two radio shows forbidden to me since 2011 by Linux and our local NPR affiliate. And so it goes,