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After the month I've had, I'm seriously considering a name change. I asked for adventures and I'm getting adventures, but maybe I should have been more specific. Maybe I should have gone with, "Tranquil Adventures in Biodiesel," or "Occasionally Eventful Adventures in Biodiesel," or "Zen Adventures in Biodiesel."
And while I'm at it, it might be a good idea to cut out that part on the homepage about sprinkling in a "little insanity." It think I left the lid loose on the jar, and the sprinkle turned into a full-on pour, because after leaving Northern California and the calm of the redwoods, the stew of my life has been heavily spiced with my own insanity.
The sky was clear when I left Crescent City and headed for Highway 199 on Tuesday morning, January 16. I'd spent the night in a vacant gravel parking lot next to a ranger station near Tolowa Dunes State Park. I didn't realize I was doing anything I could be busted for, but it's hard to be familiar with all the bustable offenses in every new area, so you just do your thing, secure in the knowledge that if you are doing something bustable, a buster will show up and inform you that you've been busted. That's what happened in the morning, when a ranger knocked on my door and told me that he'd caught me spending the night in the lot. It was keen detective work, and I wanted to ask him how he knew that this big orange and yellow bus with green liquid flames was the same one he'd seen the night before, but busters can be sensitive. So I smiled, knowing he was just doing his job, and told him the truth: I wasn't aware of the law he was now telling me about, that RVs are required to park in private lots.
"If we let people park wherever they wanted, there would be motorhomes filling up every spot in the summer," the buster said.
I looked out over the huge vacant lot and he followed my gaze. "Well, even in the winter there can be a lot of visitors," he said. "I'll let you go with a warning this morning, but your plates are in the system. Just make sure that you park in a campground from now on."
Now a registered offender, I made my way to Jedediah State Redwoods Park. It began to rain, a drizzle first, which became fat, high-speed drops. Shaking the moisture off after a bike ride, I climbed in the RV and set out for the Oregon border. For about ten miles, it was a peaceful drive, set in the stunning scenery of the Smith River Canyon, with impossibly-colored turquoise water gliding flat in the channels and churning white in the rocky spots.
White turned out to be the theme for the day. It started with the water. But then white began coming from the sky, made its way to my knuckles and eventually reached my face. The snow hit hard after just a few miles, and by the time I was climbing the steepest grades in a 34-foot bus, the trees, the road and the shoulder were all covered in about five inches of fresh stuff. The snowplows weren't out yet, so the best thing to do was stay in the tracks. Turning around wasn't an option in a big rig; none of the side roads or turnouts even had tracks. And pulling off to the side to wait it out was sketchy. What if the freak blizzard lasted for a week?
Drawing on experience from years of driving in Montana winters, I cut the speed to about 10 mph and loped up the hills and around the sharp turns. The way up was tense, but solid. It wasn't until the descent into Oregon that the rear wheels started slipping. I'd never experienced fishtails in a 30,000-pound vehicle and I hope I never have a repeat. It felt like trying to steer a taboggan. Finally, after an inch-at-a-time downward zig-zag next to sheer canyon walls and riverside cliffs, we reached the valley floor and the snow started to thin out. It was slushy and asphalt was showing, and I decided it was okay to pry my fingernails out of the steering wheel. Things were bound to be much easier at this lower elevation.
Things were easier for about thirty miles. And then, just outside of Cave Junction, Oregon, the patches of asphalt disappeared and the slush turned to ice. A line of cars formed behind me and stretched out in front and our entire procession slowed to walking speed. We slowly passed several vehicles sitting in the ditch at various angles on both sides of the road. My fingernails found their way back to the dents still in the steering wheel, and my heart resumed it's double-time polka pace.
I was lucky enough to find myself directly behind a loaded semi with balding tires. I was doing my best to keep off the brakes, using the engine to slow down, but that became impossible when the semi driver lost control of his trailer. The box began to slide sideways, and the front of the rig slid toward the ditch. My heart slid into my stomach, and I put on the brakes. Now the back of my coach began to slide toward the ditch. It was a slow glide to the shoulder, and I thought something like, "Well, it's been a fun few months, but it's all about to come to an end when I roll into this ditch."
But the snow on the shoulder was thick and sticky enough to hold, and I came to a stop behind the semi. I never imagined it would be so nice to have a change of pants on hand. The dry britches helped, though, and I stepped out on the ice to see if I could help the truck driver with his chains. About an hour later, we were ready to start the slow roll again. Eventually, the snow thinned again, and I reached Grants Pass and I-5 just in time to line up behind hundreds of cars waiting for the truck drivers to take off their chains now that the snow was slush again.
The going was slow for most of the trip, but I reached Eugene at around seven that night, with the entire state of Oregon still in deep freeze. It's funny how a leisurely four-hour drive can turn into an icy, eight-hour tango with near catastrophe. It's also funny how you sometimes get exactly what you ask for. I was hoping that this bioTrekker journey would bring adventures, but I'd also been feeling the desire to slow down a bit. The trip back from California was definitely adventurous, and I was forced to slow down. Although I didn't know it at the time, it was a pattern that would be playing out for a few more weeks.
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I want to know the culprit behind my newly purchased but underperforming Asus GTX 560.
I can play Resident Evil 5, Dead Space 2 and Warcraft III DOTA on highest settings without problems. But when playing NBA 2k12, COD Black Ops/Modern Warfare my system lags and gets just 7 FPS (26 FPS max during the night and wee hours).
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I have decided to buy a 600w CPU (an AeroCool Strike X 80PLUS Bronze maybe). But before that, I really wanted to know if it is really the PSU that's causing this problem, or the i5 processor? I have a very limited budget so I want to get the right component as much as possible.
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I had a GTS250 before. All my games ran very, very well without lags on high settings. One day, while playing NBA 2k11, framerate suddenly dropped to 7 or 6 FPS. Sometimes it would return to normal but most times it would lag. Same problem on Call of Duty MW and Black Ops. I shrugged it off because I could play Dead Space 2 smoothly! So I thought it was just a Windows 7 problem. So I reformatted my drive and reinstalled 7. Nothing has changed. But this time I also got occasional BSOD during stratups and sudden shutdowns. So I thought my videocard is causing the problem so I bought an Asus GTX 560. Now, only the sudden shutdowns and BSOD's disappeared. Playing games are still a problem.
What are your thoughts? I haven't played since September and I'm itching so much right now. PSU or CPU? Or is it the motherboard? Please help.
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Let me guess, you connected only one 6 pin connector to 560? That's why shutdowns disappeared. Card does not run at full speed. Connect the second one and watch shutdowns reappear. And then get new PSU
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I'd try running memtest, to see if your ram is fudged
Also uploading the dump files from your bsod would help us determine the cause
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We don't know which ASUS 560 you have, but here is a power draw test for one of them. I think you are under-powered but can't say whether or not more power would help you. ASUS GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review - Power Consumption - Legit Reviews
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We don't know which ASUS 560 you have, but here is a power draw test for one of them. I think you are under-powered but can't say whether or not more power would help you. ASUS GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review - Power Consumption - Legit Reviews
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I'm going to test Memtest when I get home today. Crossing my fingers... I'll update you guys. Thanks a lot!
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I forgot to mention to check your PSU label to see what the max +12V amp and watts are and then check the chart I linked to see if it puts out enough.
Also you might see which nVIDIA driver you have, some recent ones have been buggy. The 270.61 and 285.62 have been the most stable.
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The Randomkids…sufficiently tired out… are happy and off in Gamer Land. Typical teenyboppers nowadays. 😉 Lol
I thanked my hubby this weekend for allowing me to doodle, write, take pics, and create to my hearts content. 🙂
He laughed and said that he didn't do anything different to "allow" me to do more, he pointed out that now at the end of my day, after home school, dishes, laundry, cooking, cleaning, and errands. I actually choose to doodle, write, take pictures, and create to my hearts content instead of binge watching Netflix, binge reading books, Pinning, or otherwise surfing the net. Lol 😉
I was stumped for a bit while I thought on that. Wowsers! How comes I never realized how much time I was sitting away. 😮 😮
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was quite educational for me. I not only learnt about the history of Sulawesi pre WW2(used to be part of the Philippines before during Japanese times) from the locals but also that the northern part of Sulawesi has the only documented community of the Tarsier Spectrum and the Macaca Nigra (black crested macaque/monkey), protected and endnagered, respectively. I stayed at a homestay which belonged to the ranger of the park and so it proved pretty educational. That night there was no electricity in the village so it was not fun getting up at 3:45am the next morning to get dressed. The ranger was telling me that he had helped National Geographic with their report when the NG team came out to do a thing on the Tarsus, in celebration of 150 years of NGS.
Black crested macaque (Macaca Nigra) in the Tangkoko Reserve
There is the western and eastern Tarsier, but only the eastern is found on Sulawesi, and specifically the Spectrum in north Sulawesi. According to the ranger, there are 5 species of eastern tarsier on Sulawesi. I was fortunate to run into a researcher observing the Macaca Nigras and we had a lengthy discussion of the behavior of the Macacas. I also learnt that the program was being sponsored by the German Primate Center. This is the first documented community of the species type, the other 8, supposedly found on Sulawesi have not been documented and numbers are unknown. All but the Macaca nigras are somewhat used to humans being that they have been known to roam into the villages and steal fruit. The Tarsus is hunted for pets and the ranger was telling me that only the day before I arrived they found 3 illegal captures of the Tarsier Spectrum at the Manado Airport.
Tarsier Spectrum, about 1730 local time in the Tangkoko Reserve
The reserve didn't feel very large even after being told it was 4-5 hectares. To get to see these magnificent creatures, it was another lengthy walk in the sauna into the rain forest and it rained like crazy the evening I headed in with the ranger to seek the Tarsier, which happens to be the smallest primate. The guys are nocturnal feeders and sleep during the day. We headed in just in time to one of the last ones leaving their home(tree), since it was a rainy day, they probably woke up earlier since the sun didn't come out. The ranger told me I was very lucky to be able to get a pic of a wild tarsier as these small cuties are very quick in moving from branch to branch. It was quite a struggle and I was determined to get a decent pic after the disaster with my underwater photography(more on that later).
Black crested macaque (Macaca Nigra) in the Tangkoko Reserve
The next morning we headed out at 4:30am to catch the Tarsus going back to sleep and then continued to in search of the Black Crested macaques. For this we headed deeper into the Reserve and I was cursing the humidity the further in we went. After an hour and a half of going in circles, and making calls, we located a community being observed by researches and stopped to observe ourselves. The Macacas were running between us, jumping from branch to branch, outwardly frisky more than once(funny!), and ignored us as we stood there to observe. The rangers see the monkeys everyday but it was my first time and was very exciting. I was sad to leave as I had a flight to catch.
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