It's been a long time since I made a blog.

 I've been busy with a visitor and traveling to the Mount Rushmore Memorial. I've been busy for more than month.

I bought a couple of old laptops in an on-line auction. 

The first one only needed a battery charge. I was able to get it working well when I finally took out a memory module that Windows used to prevent anyone from installing Linux. I'm really happy with it and I'm using it now. 

The other laptop is a problem child. I've replaced the charger and the battery. It also needs a display.; which I'll get tomorrow. 

In spite of a broken display. I got Linux Mint installed. It turned out that the sound doesn't work. I found a broken variable resister. It could be called a rheostat.. The headsets work so I'll leave it at that. 

I might just send back the display and throw it away. Replacing the rheostat is just to hard. I don't do much soldering. and I don't know how to get a replacement part.

I don't feel inspired about linking a YouTube video. I'll find something. I wasn't able to link a video. Maybe it's censorship.