Betsy and I decided to take a little Sunday drive to see the ocean. We headed for Nahant and toured that quaint little peninsula. The intermittent rain stopped long enough for us to get out for about 10 minutes at a marina and enjoy the breeze and the sea air and a very foggy view of the Boston Skyline.
Then we decided we probably needed to get some fried clams. So I fired up Google maps to look for a seafood restaurant on the water between Nahant and home. The closest to the water was Kelly’s Roast Beef but it does not have any indoor seating and it was pouring when we got there. So the next closest was the Belle Isle Lobster and Seafood Restaurant. As we headed towards it Betsy made a mental note that if it looked sketchy she wasn’t going to go in.

We pulled up and the sign said today’s special was the clam dinner. The interweb reviews were all positive about the food. The only complaint was there is no seating so we gave it a shot. The clams were delicious, the onion rings were spectacular and the cole slaw was pretty good too. There were 8 stools along an L shaped shelf by the windows. So we had a great dinner, met some nice people that sat next to us, all with a water view.

Maybe some day Matt will post a paragraph about me like the one Dexter did for him for Father’s day; not the Strong Bad thing or the game winning but the fixing technical stuff thing.

BetsTop (Betsy’s HP laptop) had intermittent problems recognizing the power plug. Several months ago I took it all apart and resoldered the jack and that fixed the problem for about a week. So when it died again, I ordered a new jack. Then life took over and the laptop has been sitting on my desk right next to the new jack and the 8-10 screws I had left over from the last repair attempt. Inspired by Dex and Matt, I finally got around to replacing the jack.

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I had the new jack in yesterday morning but we had a few graduation parties to go to so I left it all disassembled. Betsy had to stay over at the inn last night so around 10 I decided to put it back together.
It powered right up but I had no keyboard. I knew I had not seating the signal strip in the zero insertion force thingee so I had to remove the keyboard, reseat it (only took 2 tries) and I had keyboard. Then the radio button would not work. So I had to take the keyboard cover apart. I had a wire that snuck under the plastic and was sitting over the radio on button. So I pushed it back into the channel and voila! it is working again. We’ll see how long this lasts but at least I know I got the new jack in successfully.