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stephbgAll by my lonesome today, with Husband back behind bars during the day and straight to the pub for a gig after work. Metro Big Band at The Charles, for those keeping score at home. I almost got to go; Husband called and asked me to track down a missing cable, and I would have driven it to him if necessary. Ah, the old roadie days. Hard on the knuckles as I recall, not to mention the eardrums and biceps.
In fact, the first time I was called "Ma'am" was the time I was roadie-ing at The Aberdeen for 5 Guys Named Mo. American sailor, of course. I would have been 20, and astonished.
Anywho... focus. It's been a baaaad couple of days coming out of the probe prep. The process blocked absorbtion of all meds and supplements for a couple of days, as if I'd stopped taking them suddenly, so I've been experiencing the joys of madness, false pregnancy, general malnutrition, and neuro-muscular disorder, all at once. That would go some way to explaining my bleak despair at the thought of facing laptop repairs and/or reinstall. And my bleak despair at, well, everything, including sunshine and birdies. Bit of a giveaway, that one.
I was most annoyed to miss the scheduled opportunity to visit![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mikey_ob in hospital, but just couldn't do it. Couldn't stand up.
However, have started to feel improved--if still relatively spoonless--and even faced the task of backing up the laptop, prepatory to some anticipated inconvenience. It was action of a sort that made me feel slightly less out of control. Except I couldn't burn a data disk. My CD/DVD drive doesn't want to play. Still, found a spare thumb drive (WHICH WORKED!) and put some stuff on it. Except I kept coming across that most charming of Windows file handling behaviours that halts a multiple file copy action the first time it comes across one file with which it has issues. And sometimes it would announce that my thumb drive was full. Which It Wasn't.
I HATE technology. It's nice when it works (*hearts lj*), but I was in no condition to face the loss of my one connection to the outside world. Apart from that backup, I also haven't a clue as to how to go about replacing the hard disk with zero downtime. Boo Hoo. Grrrr. Wibble. Argh.
Butlilysea sent me something shiny in the mail, for which I thank her muchly, so I should go and look at it now I'm in more of a position to appreciate sunshine and birdies.
*struggles with the temptation to just buy another laptop*
In fact, the first time I was called "Ma'am" was the time I was roadie-ing at The Aberdeen for 5 Guys Named Mo. American sailor, of course. I would have been 20, and astonished.
Anywho... focus. It's been a baaaad couple of days coming out of the probe prep. The process blocked absorbtion of all meds and supplements for a couple of days, as if I'd stopped taking them suddenly, so I've been experiencing the joys of madness, false pregnancy, general malnutrition, and neuro-muscular disorder, all at once. That would go some way to explaining my bleak despair at the thought of facing laptop repairs and/or reinstall. And my bleak despair at, well, everything, including sunshine and birdies. Bit of a giveaway, that one.
I was most annoyed to miss the scheduled opportunity to visit
mikey_ob in hospital, but just couldn't do it. Couldn't stand up.However, have started to feel improved--if still relatively spoonless--and even faced the task of backing up the laptop, prepatory to some anticipated inconvenience. It was action of a sort that made me feel slightly less out of control. Except I couldn't burn a data disk. My CD/DVD drive doesn't want to play. Still, found a spare thumb drive (WHICH WORKED!) and put some stuff on it. Except I kept coming across that most charming of Windows file handling behaviours that halts a multiple file copy action the first time it comes across one file with which it has issues. And sometimes it would announce that my thumb drive was full. Which It Wasn't.
I HATE technology. It's nice when it works (*hearts lj*), but I was in no condition to face the loss of my one connection to the outside world. Apart from that backup, I also haven't a clue as to how to go about replacing the hard disk with zero downtime. Boo Hoo. Grrrr. Wibble. Argh.
But
lilysea sent me something shiny in the mail, for which I thank her muchly, so I should go and look at it now I'm in more of a position to appreciate sunshine and birdies.*struggles with the temptation to just buy another laptop*
