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I had some good luck yesterday. The DVD drive on my old lap-top broke yesterday morning. I would have replaced the lap-top by now, but partially thanks to the COVID chip shortage, it's hard to get one with a DVD drive, which is how I watch my DVD collection. Fortunately, I literally had a drive in a junk pile in my closet. My internet desk-top died about a year ago (replaced with a DVD-driveless lap-top), and for no particular reason I stuffed it in the closet instead of pitching it. I opened it up yesterday to see what I had and its drive was the same size and shape as the one I pulled out dead from the lap-top. I had to remove some plastic that kept it in place in the desk-top, but once that was gone it slid right into the lap-top and connected with the proper sockets. There is no way to replace the form-fitting front plate on the drive to make the old lap-top look sleek again. But the drive functions perfectly well and that's all that's necessary.
Testing it out yesterday I watched some old episodes of Bones. They've started showing them on COZI TV and it's better to watch the DVDs (no commercials, no cuts just for commercials). I hadn't seen these episodes since I bought the DVD's ages ago. It's funny how silly some of the stories are to make them suitable for broadcast TV. In one Bones and Booth are tracking down a murderer, and what the audience sees to prove the murderer is also cannibal is a "bone" with perfect teeth marks as if it were modeling clay instead of bone. In another the murder is solved because the murderer jabbed the victims in the skull with his metal cane head hard enough to leave a divot (not the cause of death, btw) without damaging the cane or its head. One that made me groan when the episode first aired was using Valley Fever as a horrible disease to half-way spoil everyone's Christmas. About the only thing they got right about the disease is that it is caused by a fungus. If you've ever seen that ad for that prescription medicine in which they specifically state you should tell your doctor if you've been to regions with "certain fungal diseases," they are talking about Valley Fever. Yes, some people die of Valley Fever, but it's very rare and as with COVID it's really some underlying problem that makes it worse. It used to be that practically everyone in Southern Arizona (both Phoenix and Tucson) got it or at least had the fungus in their systems. Yet it's not communicable like the story was saying. It's endemic in our local soil. When dust gets kicked up, as in our summer dust storms, anyone can breath the fungus in. Honestly my bout of Valley Fever was worse than my time with COVID. I got over both in about two weeks, but felt more sick with Valley Fever. My sister had it not as an acute illness as I did, but as kind of a background condition for months. It didn't stop her from doing things but she often was easily fatigued and had a low grade fever. In the story they test everyone Christmas Day and they are all cleared. In reality it would take days to know if someone was badly infected and, again, no one could get Valley Fever directly from them anyway!
Testing it out yesterday I watched some old episodes of Bones. They've started showing them on COZI TV and it's better to watch the DVDs (no commercials, no cuts just for commercials). I hadn't seen these episodes since I bought the DVD's ages ago. It's funny how silly some of the stories are to make them suitable for broadcast TV. In one Bones and Booth are tracking down a murderer, and what the audience sees to prove the murderer is also cannibal is a "bone" with perfect teeth marks as if it were modeling clay instead of bone. In another the murder is solved because the murderer jabbed the victims in the skull with his metal cane head hard enough to leave a divot (not the cause of death, btw) without damaging the cane or its head. One that made me groan when the episode first aired was using Valley Fever as a horrible disease to half-way spoil everyone's Christmas. About the only thing they got right about the disease is that it is caused by a fungus. If you've ever seen that ad for that prescription medicine in which they specifically state you should tell your doctor if you've been to regions with "certain fungal diseases," they are talking about Valley Fever. Yes, some people die of Valley Fever, but it's very rare and as with COVID it's really some underlying problem that makes it worse. It used to be that practically everyone in Southern Arizona (both Phoenix and Tucson) got it or at least had the fungus in their systems. Yet it's not communicable like the story was saying. It's endemic in our local soil. When dust gets kicked up, as in our summer dust storms, anyone can breath the fungus in. Honestly my bout of Valley Fever was worse than my time with COVID. I got over both in about two weeks, but felt more sick with Valley Fever. My sister had it not as an acute illness as I did, but as kind of a background condition for months. It didn't stop her from doing things but she often was easily fatigued and had a low grade fever. In the story they test everyone Christmas Day and they are all cleared. In reality it would take days to know if someone was badly infected and, again, no one could get Valley Fever directly from them anyway!