What I'm doing here

I've been thinking about this for a while now, but today's incident (coupled with a conveniently enabled blogger account from other recent activity) convinced me it was worth doing.

I'm a single mom, pushing 50, living in a VERY rural area. I've always been a "hands-on" person, so I try hard to fix things that go wrong (from computers to appliances to whatever) before calling in "the guys" or tech support or whatever the next option happens to be.

In the past few years the Internet has become a great source for solutions, or at least hints at them. But often they are incomplete, require registering or logging in to some site or another, or never say whether the suggested solution fixed the problem or not. Sometimes you have to put several ideas together to get the "ahah!" that makes it all work.

So here I am just going to post problems I have had (with as many specifics as possible and links to sites that helped), and what worked to solve them. They will be as random as the problems I am having at the moment (or that someone else I know had and I was able to fix), which means they won't be neatly categorized into computer, appliance, insect, etc. problems. Hopefully all those great search engines out there will bring you to the right place in your time of need.

If they work for you, great, if they don't, keep looking. You can ask questions but I'm unlikely to have additional answers.

But if a solution here DOES work for you, I'd love to hear about it.

Here's hoping this is a worthwhile endeavour...

dunstergirl