Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Updating the Craigslist Laptop Gets a Rave

I have just ordered a new Seagate 500Gb hard drive for less than $50. Happy Birthday to me next week. It should arrive just in time.

So after this upgrade I will have a total of $159 into the laptop. Rave for the free items on Craigslist and to those who give away perfectly good laptops because they can't fix them. :)


Update: Cloned original while the new one was encased in an external USB enclosure. Used Clonzilla and was running in no time. I left the main partitions as they were and created new ones in the empty space. It is really cool to have the extra space now.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Rave Time For Gary's Automotive

We love our cars and we hate car repairs. But the two will always be together. Cars are mechanical and no matter what type or how much it cost, maintaining it is a fact we have to own.

Last week our Elantra's radiator blew a nice eight inch split on the top. This is the second one we have replaced it and each one was about the same milage. At just over 100,000 and just barely over the warranty the first one went out. This time it was about an extra 1000 miles.
 
We had it towed into Gary's Automotive in Chandler Az. We have done business with him a few times now and each time we are treated with courtesy and respect. I have not had this good of a feeling with an automotive repair facility or person in a long time. I feel he really does care about his customers instead of the big guys who just say they do.

The radiator is fixed and we are on the road again. Life is going to be back to normal once more. Thank you Gary for the fine service we have recieved.