February 5th

It started off raining, then there were a bunch of towering cumulus clouds, meaning it was going to be bumpy, so I decided against flying.

Vic and I went and had lunch, then did a little shopping, then went home and I went through the goat sacrifice to get the Alienware Alpha that I'd lent Randy working again.

For reference, you need to:

• Take it all apart
• Remove the CMOS battery for 10 minutes
• Plug the CMOS battery back in
• Move the blue jumper from the side of the motherboard to the reset pins (vertical) in the middle of the motherboard
• Power up
• Press the power button to shut it down
• Move the blue jumper back
• Put it all back together

Finally I got to do the BIOS setup and it booted through to the logon prompt.  Yay.

Randy came and picked it up to do a software update on his scooter.