[rewind and start again...]
Right - where were we?
So I got the computer working again on Thursday, which was good. And yesterday it booted up just fine, although I didn't risk turning it off when I went to collect Kai, just in case: set AVG going to give it something to chew on, and all seemed well.
Ken was invited to a Government focus group thingumee (a public... what d'you call 'em, consultation?) for Gateway -
these people, I think (you can tell how much it impinges on my consciousness, can't you?). Since he uses the resource quite frequently, and had some criticism and comments, and they were paying transport and food, he leapt on a coach early on Thursday morning and has been in Exeter and
environs until last night (arrived back at just gone 9pm). As a result I've had to take and collect Kai from school both days - not a problem except that it does cut into the working day somewhat. Anyway, while he was there he was able to complete a few last minute tidying up things for the Dartmouth book (which involved photographing a goodly number of pages from a rare (but not valuable) book at Exeter Library), and hunt nymetts with friend Tony.
He arrived back with 95 photos in the digicam, which I duly downloaded and burned to CD (the pic is of a yew tree in a cemetery at Zeal Monacorum. If I remember rightly it's apparently around 1200 years old.) I then tried to delete the photos...
[sigh] Remind me to just use the camera's delete function in future, rather than my computer, which is what I've been doing so far (though since I've never had more than 6 photos in the camera at any one time it's never been a problem). Half way through a screen flashed up, saying 'insufficient resources to complete task' - and then the whole system hung, so badly I eventually had to switchoff at the stack as it would
not close down.
Booted back up - and all the messages in Eudora's main in-tray had vanished. As had the ones in Ken's in-tray. Now fortunately, after Thursday's fun and games, I'd backed up everything recent, including all the archived emails (and then deleted nearly 2,000 from the system), and mostly cleared the in-trays anyway, so we didn't lose anything that we can't replace simply by asking the few people involved to resend the messages. But dnoter (that nifty little 'screen postit' software I found ages back and use to make notes to myself when I'm writing) had completely gone, along with my current notes - and of course that had me worried in case anything else was affected. (So far everything important seems to be OK.)
Then the nagging stomach pain I'd had all evening resolved itself into a full-blown case of indigestion - the sort that feels like someone has tied your guts in knots and is forcing tennis balls through with a sink plunger...
Drinking half a mug of almost-boiling water helped a bit, but I didn't get a lot of sleep last night, and this morning my abdomen feels as though it's been repeatedly kicked. A fun start to the bank holiday weekend, eh?
In other, more fun news... I now have 40 little tomato seedlings sitting on the kitchen window sill being cute and perky. They aren't big enough to plant outside yet, but it shouldn't be too long. And there are a lot of flowers (and some early fruit) on the strawberries: need to organise a permanent place for them to sit all through the summer, as struggling up and down the garden with heavy terracotta planters is no fun.
Onna, thank you for the offer re FF, but Alithiel gave me a pretty comprehensive run down of the story and characters when she sent over her fanfics, so even though I've never played it I know more or less who's who and what's what! I will ask if there's anything I'm not sure about, though.
Gremlins... [growl] Personally I think Butch has decided he wants to move again and is going to give me grief until I upgrade my machine.
One of the simple joys of the warmer days is being able to drag the rotary drier out of the shed and hang the washing up outdoors. Especially if I can inveigle Ken into mowing at the same time: everything ends up smelling of freshly-cut grass, one of my favourite summer fragrances...
And I watched last week's Dr Who last night, repeated on Beeb 3, before the stomach pain really set in (missed it last Saturday as I simply
had to have a sleep, couldn't keep eyes open). Really enjoyed it! I do
like David Tennant as Ten, and Rose is even better in this series, I think. I shall actually
watch episode three tonight.
Garden-type stuff today. There may be photos, later...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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