January 05, 2008
Bob In Prudhoe Again
On Sunday, December 30th we got up early to take my brother to the airport so he could fly up to Prudhoe Bay for a while. After we dropped him off, we went and had breakfast at the Snow City Cafe in downtown Anchorage where my mom got the "Heart Attack on a Plate" while Timber and I split a combo of two eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage. We also helped mom with her "Heart Attack on a Plate". After breakfast we went to my mom's work and helped her with a few things. I also saw a really defective computer monitor for the first time right out of the box. The state of Alaska buys their computers from Dell, and they had just gotten in a new monitor that had two fairly large horizontal translucent stripes across it. I spent some time trying to recalibrate it, found the instruction booklet and went through the troubleshooting guide, and even checked Dell's customer support forums. Dell customer service online pretty much sucks by the way because they make it very difficult to find what you are looking for. After I exhausted all those avenues I told my mom that I thought it was a hardware issue and that we would need to call Dell. I was really dreading having to call Dell. But luckily my mom's work had already filed a trouble ticket with them, so my work on the monitor was done. For the rest of the day we worked and took a break for a short walk around downtown and a cup of joe and then later on we took a lunch break and walked down the street to Humpy's. Humpy's has tons of different beer, but since we were going to go back to the office and get some work done I had soda instead. :-( But if you are in Anchorage and want to check out a place with lots of different beers (lots of local ones) you should check out Humpy's.