We woke up about 08:00 this morning, with Lacee crawling in bed with us. I got up and went downstairs and made coffee and sat down with mom and read the paper. Karen and Lacee eventually came down, and mom made breakfast while I started working on her computer.

I removed and cleaned all of the boards and pressed down on all of the removable chips, cleaned the power supply and in general checked everything out. Put it back together and worked with it a while, and the video started cutting out again. Luckily, it continued messing up until I found the problem... a faulty connection inside the plug going into the video board from the monitor. I dis-assembled the plug, adjusted the slack inside of it and put it back together. It had evidently gotten tugged on pretty hard at one time or another, and one of the pins was intermittently not making good contact.

It should now last until all 386's are considered antiques... O'wait, they already are!

Then I helped mom with Quicken, and found out where she had been going wrong on her reconciliations. Instead of using the reconciliation program, she had been changing the "cleared" field on the register. This really messes that old DOS quicken up, for some reason or another.

We ate lunch and were on the road shortly afterward; it was a long drive back, 250 miles. We only made three stops, though, and we were back in Topeka about 17:30. When we dropped Lacee off, we watched the Chiefs win their game in overtime. It was, I guess, an exciting game. The end certainly was, anyway.

So I felt ambitious when we got home, and mixed up the finish for the redwood and started painting it on the front railings and benches. That project was called on account of darkness, though. I'll get more done tomorrow, probably finish up the front and then get started on the back decking.

Right now, though, I'm gonna get a shower and go to sleep in my own bed.