Two weeks of unexplained hardware freezes and online uptimes averaging between 45 seconds and 10 minutes... gah. Tried everything under the sun, still can't find a culprit ( Read more... )

Just transferring all the birthday info to the new calendar, and I had to look up when Littlest Nephew was born... and found this on the LJ entry for that day ( Read more... )

I have just spent TEN DAYS pulling this friggin' machine to bits, physically and metaphysically, trying to solve this DNS thing. ISP no help - no answer, no online solutions, nothing, despite the very kind help of eor and derien who have been bloody wonderful... thank you, both of you, it is very much appreciated - but nothing worked. Nothing ( Read more... )

Lovely slow day. Read lots. Stayed warm. Looked out of bus windows ( Read more... )

I HATE pap smears with a passion bordering on the insane. kthxbai. Missing lunch hour for one I didn't bleedin' want in the first place, GAH.

Did The Feminist Test after seeing oursin's comments. I just scrape by as a basic, apparently. Mm-hmmm ( Read more... )

DL-d The Long Firm - crime, manshag and Judy Parfitt. What more could you want? [1]

Ordered Arthur of the BritonsThe Kia Sorento has arrived; hubby wants to call it Lugger but I find myself thinking of it as Bloodnok for some reason. We took it for a spin in Tallaganda, crossed a creek and didn't kill it, so now it's all muddy and looks like a ( Read more... )

Battled inordinately strong wind to get into town for my appointment - turned a 10 minute ride into 25, easy. Good thing I wasn't gastro ( Read more... )

Headachey earachey thing; not so bad today but it wouldn't be nice to give it back to the little sods who gave it to me, now would it :) Can't get into the doc's till late - so I'm stuck 'ere watching Secret Life - trials and tribs of a convicted sex offender. Kind of like an English The Woodsman, bit less stagey, but a bit less involving too. ( Read more... )

Riiiight. So today was the great Jam Experiment, yay... except that having put off the move to Hubby's Old Computer as long as possible (fucking horrible fucking Vista), guess who gets antsy just as the pot's going on...

( hubby buys Ipod, prompting 3-machine PC shuffle farce. I haven't killed him yet )

Yes, I'm aware what I'm doing looks bloody amateurish compared to a lot of stuff out there. Excruciatingly so. Every time I put something up I like it for about 30 seconds (till I see what everyone else is making ( Read more... )