It’s Monday. Okay, so Spooky Season doesn’t officially begin until tomorrow, but I couldn’t resist picking up a pumpkin over the weekend and gutting him for his seeds! One of the things I like most about this time of year is making some homemade pumpkin seeds. So last night I gutted Jack while watching Outrageous Pumpkins on the Food Network. After cleaning up the seeds, I popped my heavily salted seeds into the oven at 275 degrees for roughly 15 minutes. As you can see, they came out looking wonderfully toasted and damn tasty! These oughta last me about a week, so they’ll likely be the first of several batches.

I also caught the Bears game against the Rams and something amazing happened—they won! They were a mess in the first half, but they got it together in the second and pulled out a win 18-24.

-keep

It’s Friday! It used to be my favorite Corvette event. MidAmerica Motorworks holds their annual gathering every September. It’s open to everyone, but Corvette owners are encouraged to bring their car for display. In the days before Covid, this show would regularly attract thousands of Corvettes. It was so popular, people from other countries would travel to a small town in central Illinois called Effingham, where MidAmerica Motorworks was located. And then Covid hit and the show has never been the same. The number of Corvettes and spectators showing up for the show are far less than before. It’s just not the same and I’m not sure why. After going every year since 2001, I decided not to make the 3-hour trip down this year.

Fortunately, one of my readers did make the journey from Indiana. Even better, he sent in a few photos from the show. I put them into a gallery and you can check them out below. A huge thanks goes out to him for allowing me to share them with all of you.

Okay, since it is Friday the babes & jokes are doubled today… enjoy!

-keep

It’s Thursday. I’ve been recently having a problem with my new Microsoft Surface Studio 2 Plus. I’ve had it now for a couple months and its been working flawlessly. I really like this thing. However, earlier in the week it started shutting off randomly. It doesn’t shut Windows down, it simply shuts off a few times a day. I have to turn it back on and it boots up normally. It seems to work normally for roughly an hour, sometimes more and sometimes less.

I searched online for any known issues and the only thing I saw related to random shutdowns was overheating. A friend suggested that I install an app called Core Temp to monitor the temperature of the processor. I did that and the app keeps track of the current temperature of all 4 cores, along with a minimum and maximum temperature for each. I’m seeing average running temperatures of 110 degrees for all 4 cores. The maximum it recorded was 220, but generally it stays around 120. I have no idea what is normal for this computer.

I checked the BIOS but didn’t see any settings for the fan.

As I mentioned, it’s new and still under warranty. I contacted Microsoft support and we went through some minor diagnostics. They offered two options. I could send the machine in to Microsoft for repair or take it to an authorized Microsoft repair place–located in only 3 states! And Illinois isn’t one of them. So basically my only option is to box it up and send it in.

If anyone has any suggestions, drop me an email.

-keep