This short Diary is to thank everybody who answered my request for help, and to inform some of the Kossack Kommunity about some fresh developments in my electronics situation!
Onward, beyond the fold!
TWO DAYS AGO, I posted this Diary asking for help getting my Kos-ing computer replaced. Some had old laptops I might get working as substitutes for my dying one; others brought up other means by which someone with little or nothing by way of cash resources might address this particular issue.
My most profound gratitude to all of you! Thank you! Kossacks fookin' ROCK!!
I would print that in flashing purple neon with an accompanying klaxon horn if I could! ;-)
So why make another whole Diary to say "Thank You" ?
Because my weirdass electronics have another bizarro story to tell, which has been mentioned in some Comments in various Diaries.
Three days ago, without warning, my television set fell completely dead. It would not turn on, try as I might. Remote, front panel, you name it -- "no go, Soho!".
As a result, I could not watch the stupidity festival fascist party rally Republican debates on Phucked Noize. I was completely dependent on Teh Kos for all information on the subject. Fortunately for me, I did have Teh Kos! In particular, Colorado is the Shiznit spared me a considerable pain-fest; she watched the debates so I didn't have to! Thank you, Shiz!
SO THAT BRINGS ME TO THIS AFTERNOON. Fully expecting to have to dig into Teh TV Set, I disconnected it from all of its electrical moorings (antenna and power both from the cable box). I then hauled it out of its normal place and started breaking out tools to commence mass destruction.
Just on a lark, I plugged the set power cord directly into a known good power socket and pressed the power button on the front panel.
The set came on immediately!
So I reconnected the signal/antenna coax to the appropriate jack on the set, the one running from the cable box.
No problems. As if I had still been watching when the TV went bannannors. Even still tuned to the same channel.
So I moved the power cord back to the cable box. Still A-OK, as it is at this moment.
SO WTF, OVER??!!??
I have become convinced that my TV set, exactly like its master, is a Hard Leftist Pinko Socialist Comrade Fellow-Traveler, and it couldn't bear the thought of having to slog through the right-wing bullshit talking points of the Republican Debates, so it shut itself down hard cold so I couldn't use it in that way.
Or a voltage spike from lightning strikes in the area caused the astable multivibrator circuit in the switching power supply to lock up, which would prevent this component of my TV from producing any electrical output at all.
But I like my first explanation better!
;-)
Anyway, good Kossacks, there you have it. Thank you for all the offers of various and sundry sorts of assistance. You really do kick ass and take names! And Shiz, we really need you back in Colorado as soon as you can spare yourself from the matters keeping you in Wisconsin.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled pie fights!