Now have slightly less than 9K words to write! 'ooray!!
Right. First, I'm sorry I haven't replied to any comments in the last couple of days: I'm having problems with Norton - as in, there's a single small security update file that keeps failing to install. It's not a vital one - as far as I can see, it's the one that actually installs the automatic LiveUpdate, but since I manually update anyway I don't miss it, and just uncheck it when running the update every day - my system is still protected, but it has apparently locked me out of submitting comments to Haloscan. I can write them, and review them, but hitting submit just brings up an empty white box. There is, I believe, a way around this by stripping the Symantec javascript out of my Haloscan comments template, but that will only work for me (I can't submit to anyone else's comments either) and leave mine open to spammers, and to be honest I'd rather put up with the inability to comment for now. Norton's answer to the problem - Norton's answer to
any bloody problem - is to download the Norton uninstall file, ditch the software, and reinstall NIS. Last time it took me three bloody hours, and right now I don't have the time. (I'm becoming more and more disenchanted with Norton. If it was free I wouldn't mind so much, but I'm bloody
paying for this, and the service is abysmal.)
So, no comments for the moment. Once this manuscript is printed and away, I'm going to spend a day in some serious computer housekeeping: full backup of the entire hard drives, disc cleanup, defrag [gasp!], try to get the audio software working again, and Norton reinstall.
I've also deleted the YouTube Muse videos I had at the bottom of the blog: my current favourite (
Bliss) has been removed for 'copyright violation' and the others were taking forever to load...
It's been a nice day. Denis came 'round, said the concrete was dry enough to finish installing the water butt (well, it's empty at the moment and there's no rain forecast for the next week, dammit), and helped Ken cut the downpipe and fix the connector. So we're all set.
Frodo came round to see Kai in the afternoon: they had a lot of fun at the park and in the garden. And Kim rang: her daughter wants to meet up with Kai again, and it's been a while since we talked, so we're hoping to go out next Sunday if the weather's nice (Clevedon, possibly).
We had big pig for dinner - and I made Yorkshire puddings for the first time ever (with organic wholemeal flour rather than plain white, but it worked OK). They were fine and went down well. (And very fast!) Need a little more salt next time though.
And we did our first Feecycle trade - Ken was checking the site and there was a plea for help from a mum whose son had arrived home from school with a gerbil, and she was desperate for a cage. We gave her our old Rotastak stuff, which has been cluttering up the shed for the last 14 years (it's a mammoth set, with - I think - three deep 'basements', three basic habitats, one with wheel, four 'attics', two 'space stations' and miles of tubing: cost us hundreds originally). The gerbil should be happy, and we're two big boxes less to clear up when we come to do the shed (again).
I've now caught up with all the client site stuff - well almost, haven't done the monthly resubmit to the search engines yet, or got the first quarter invoices printed and sent, but I'm quite close.
Or I could relax for the rest of the night and give the hands a rest. Busy day tomorrow, but should be a fun one...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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