It doesn’t take much to fix a laptop computer, if you know how, and if you have the time and energy, and I suppose the experience helps a bit. Maybe even some training. I had all of those things, but my company still wouldn’t let me fix them. Something about the warranty, I was not an authorized technician and I would void the warranty if I opened them up. So when our laptop computers broke down we were required to call the manufacturer for “on-site” service, which meant that some guy with less experience and energy would come out to the office and fix them for us. I fixed all the desktop computers, the servers, the printers, everything else, but I wasn’t allowed to mess with the innards of the delicate laptops. Continue reading “19 Years” »
Scar Tissue
October 11th, 1998 by Jim Clark
(The comic book I write was intended to be very loosely based on the following short story, but ended up being something wholly different.)
England was fun, but I’m glad to be home.
September 7th, 1998 by Jim Clark
The next day we took a train to London and checked into the comfortable Dorset Square Hotel. After we were all checked in, we took the tube to St. John’s Wood station and walked over to the EMI/Abbey Road studios and did the typical tourist thing where you get your picture taken walking across Abbey Road. We’re such Beatles fanatics, we just had to do it. Then we took an official tour — the “Beatles Walk” — to see all the Beatles-related sites around that part of London. For fans like us it was the best part of the whole trip.
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Scotland, Day 2
September 3rd, 1998 by Jim Clark
We left the Balmoral early and drove north to Stirling.
England, Day 10 - On to Scotland
September 1st, 1998 by Jim Clark
After we checked out of our hotel in Stratford (the day before yesterday), we visited a flea market they had set up along the Avon river outside of our hotel. We did a bit of shopping and then drove on up to Nottingham.