Building a computer
Saturday was hot and very humid. We need a fan in our bedroom, and fortunately the Sorelle say they have an extra one. That way we will not need to move them around between rooms. We do have AC in the bedrooms, but it isn't quite that hot at night (yet). In the morning I walked down to Conad for a bit of produce, and they did not have any irons. I also bought a couple of bungee cords, which can be handy, as well as some little rubber door bumpers which I used as feet on one of our fans which had none.
We also looked at some small folding tables on Amazon and ended up buying one to try; you can see it here. We decided that it was easier (and cheaper) to move our desks into the back bedroom with AC for the summer rather than trying to get an extra AC unit in our living room. The table(s) will also be handy for guests to use when they come to see us.
In the afternoon I went downtown with all the computer components. The Sorelle helped me carry everything to the car, including leftover enchiladas. Dee stayed behind to work on her Sunday lesson, as she really was not needed for the computer project. Three kids were able to come to the events: Francesco, plus the two oldest Perego boys, Joshua and David.
It took us well over an hour to put everything together, because the documentation for the motherboard and case was not very good. I had to look up stuff on YouTube and the internet in general to get a few answers, but finally we got everything assembled.
When we connected all the cables and tried to boot the computer, the fans spun, but nothing appeared on the screen. It kept rebooting every 5-10 seconds. I was afraid we had connected something wrong, or that one of the parts was defective. Joshua then noted that the 4GB RAM stick was not seated very well, so he pushed it in better, but still no luck. Then he said, "let's try it in the other memory slot". Bingo! It booted right up into the BIOS. The fans are very quiet -- nice!
From there we started installing Windows from the copy I had bought on Amazon. That takes a while, and then the updates took even longer. Joshua had gone out to do something with a friend for a while in the interim, but he finally got back. We left the computer there, running TeamViewer so I could manage it from back home. They left for the train, and I drove home very happy, arriving over five hours from when I had left. Everything was looking good on the computer except that Windows hadn't activated, claiming that that license key had already been used. I will contact Microsoft on Monday to straighten that out.
Before going to bed, I did a bit more prep on my Priesthood lesson for Sunday. Dee says that we use our P-days to prepare lessons, and there is some truth in that, but we both really enjoy teaching.
Dee writes: I was glad to have the day at home to work on my lesson. I teach the fourth Sunday in Relief Society, and the new topic is Ministering. I will teach on that topic every month through September. In fact, I was supposed to do it in April, but there was a glitch in the LDS.org website and the topic wasn't updated in Italian. It turns out they did put it up, but not in the usual spot. Anyway, lessons aren't spelled out like they used to be, so I did a lot of research. The day flew by.
