24 January
A Slow, Slow Week
This week has been mostly boring…
This week, one way or another, has led me to messing around and generally procrastinating, which has taken all my focus off the synopsis for book two.
Time wasting ventures…
Earlier this week I checked the stats on the website to find the bandwidth had gone through the roof. Someone had been hotlinking images and I wasn’t impressed. It took me a whole day to trace the hotlinkers and put a text file in the directory to disable hotlinking via those people. That was a gargantuan waste of time.
Husband passes his finals…
My husband took his last final on Wednesday for part one of his CCNA course and passed with flying colours. He’ll be starting part two on the 10th February, and after that there’ll be two more parts to take him to the end of 2011. He works hard. On Wednesdays, he works 08:30 til 5:00 at his IT geek job, then does college from 5:30 til 9:00. It’s a really long day for him.
Visitations…
My sister and Harvey came around on Thurday and we had a trip to the warehouse to buy curtains and drinks cannisters. I swear to God that child has grown a good six inches since Christmas. He never stops talking, either. He’s learnt a tonne of new words.
Back-ups and crack-ups and why win-blows…
It was my intention to back up my PC on Friday for a re-install. Windows 7 had somehow deactivated itself, parts of the operating system had stopped working, and it was slow and laggy. It took the entire day to back up my 500 GB disk to the slave drive. I tried re-installing yesterday (Saturday) but the thing wouldn’t allow me to un-mirror the drives and convert them back to basic disks and I didn’t want to fuck up any of my data. So I spent all day yesterday trying to bodge the operating system to a working state and re-activate Windows. It seemed to work. I now have a 99% working installation of Windows so it wasn’t an entire waste of time. Windows sucks and blows at the same time.
Exploding speakers…
If I expected to ever blow up a sound system, I thought it would be the amp for my guitar. I play it far too loud. So loud the thing crackles. However, it was not my illustrious death metal rendition of “Ode to Joy” blowing up the amp. In fact, it wasn’t the amp that blew up at all.
I switched the extension socket on for my PC last night and something went BANG! This was promptly followed by the smell of burning and a little bit of smoke. I panicked. I assumed I’d totalled my PC. The PC came on fine, but I didn’t get any sound out of it. When testing the sound card for the problem, I unplugged the speakers sound system, and plugged a set of head phones straight into the back of the PC. Upon getting sound through the headphones, I checked the plug for the speakers and smelt like bonfire night.
Alas, my sound system is no more.
Workaholic…
My husband doesn’t normally work weekends, except this weekend my poor techy-geek was needed for a server install in Cannock. He worked 9:00 til 6:00 yesterday, and went in again at 9:00 this morning and is still there. It’s almost 08:00 PM, and who knows how long that puppy’s gonna take? He has to be there until it’s done. Hence, apart from a short visitation from the parental units yesterday, I’ve spent my weekend all alone and haven’t been able to kill time writing because of the above problems.
Quitting smoking…
Didn’t work. I started again on Thursday, gave up on Friday, and started again today. What can I say other than I needed something to kill the boredom. Want me to appologise or spend further words justifying? Tough crap, I am what I am and what I am needs no excuses.
What I am is bored.
I can’t wait to get back to some productivity…
