{"id":4242,"date":"2015-06-08T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T22:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2017-07-08T12:48:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T12:48:58","slug":"monday-8th-june-2015-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=4242","title":{"rendered":"Monday 8th June 2015 – I THINK …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sawn<\/a>… that I am going to have to find a new top for my old Black and Decker workmate. I thought that the circular saw was making hard work of that final cut on the top of the beichstuhl<\/em> this evening.<\/p>\n

It’s a fine old workmate too – getting on for 30 years old. Nerina bought it for me in the days when Black and Decker stuff was good, when I was planning on making some fitted wardrobes at Gainsborough Road. She reckoned that it might motivate me to do them, and I did too!<\/p>\n

It’s been around Europe with me on all kinds of construction sites and it’s outlived a couple of more modern reincarnations which have failed to last the pace. <\/p>\n

Yes, I’ve been working again. Cutting out and smoothing out the lunette in the top of the beichstuhl<\/em>, and then cutting out the lid for the sawdust container.<\/p>\n

It”s all been sanded down and fitted with reinforcing struts – not that it needs them but I’d look pretty silly if it were to. I can finish it off tomorrow and give it the first coat of wood treatment <\/p>\n

Apart from that, I spent the morning on the laptop talking to Acer. seeing as I’ve been having some success about various matters on various forums, I attacked Acer today about my new laptop which is painfully slow with Windows 8.1.<\/p>\n

The official helpdesk guy was no help at all but the self-help forum came up trumps. I was given a whole list of things to switch off and to delete, and told where and how I can reduce screen graphics to a minimum. That has certainly bumped up the speed and it’s roaring along now like it ought to do.<\/p>\n

Even more interestingly, upgrading the RAM from 2GB to 8GB is staightforward. It’s standard DRAM 3 stocked everywhere and someone is going to find a plan of how to fit it. This one is not like the other ACER Aspire laptops with the service hatch underneath – you need to take the case right apart to get into it. <\/p>\n

Rosemary rang up for a chat, and I had an interesting chat with a cold caller. He didn’t understand my lifestyle at all – it made no sense to him whatsoever<\/p>\n

So tomorrow I’ll continue in the shower room? We’re are advancing quite slowly, but advancing all the same.<\/p>\n

And with today’s water temperature in the solar shower at 33\u00b0C and the water in the home-made 12-volt immersion heater where all of the excess solar energy goes being over 70\u00b0C when I knocked off, 5 litres out of the latter into the former gave me a glorious solar shower to finish off the day. <\/p>\n

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