Some days you just should stay in bed (2)

Posted by Doghouse_Reilly on Tue 4 Aug 09, 7:15 PM to Doghouse_Reilly's blog.

What a fucking day.

Spent most of the day digging around like a geeky mole under my desk doing science to my dying PC. It's clearly not long for this world, after years of loyal service. This is no fucking good, cos I need it.

With me distracted by my main computer throwing a succession of death spasms my laptop decides that it no longer has a hard drive. I don't know the specifics of the problem, think the hard drive is just fucked, but that's going to have to be sorted out too. Joy.

Then of course my housemate helpfully points out that the guy he drove a van oop north with over the weekend has just been diagnosed with swine flu, and so we're probably all either got it, or getting it, or something. So that's amazing.

Figured a late lunch would make everything better, but no, a culinary disaster of epic proportions instead leaves me having to clean up the kitchen, extinguish a small fire, and have beans on toast for tea rather than what I'd planned.

All this misery is compounded by the fact that the house is oppressively hot and stuffy at the moment. My room has a window but the air is nearly completely still. It feels like a pressure cooker.

I'm usually a pretty cheerful sort of guy but if this evening is as bad as the day I can see myself popping up in some sort of murder-murder-murder-suicide headline in tomorrows papers.

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4 Aug 09, 8:22 PM
BerryBlack
UK(N), 4 yrs

Oh dear. And to think I felt the same way when I realised I'd got some figures wrong in a spreadsheet. At least you put the fire out, that's the main thing!

4 Aug 09, 10:44 PM
Doghouse_Reilly
UK(MK), 6 yrs

Yeah I reigned in the fire, and before the smoke alarm went off too, very cunning. All in all though I'm still feeling a little bit like a landmine with somebody stood on it. I could go off at any time and make a nice mess.

Found out my laptop is in really bad shape. Not the hard drive dead as I thought, but rather some sort of inbuilt security system has kicked off for no reason, basically self-knackering the thing. I wish I'd known when I brought a Japanese laptop that seppuku was part of the programming. Ah well. I can always find room for more paperweights.

All that is required for the triumph of evil is for Chuck Norris to change sides.