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So, viruses suck hard.
I knew I spent a lot of time on my laptop, but having had it out of commission for over a week now has been like being without a limb. I'm not sure what I've done to offend technology as a whole, but it's clearly something. The virus on my laptop appeared to erase every file and programme on it. It turned out it only hid them, but that was a nasty few minutes. Then overnight they came back and all looked fine. Call me paranoid, but that just made me wonder what the disappearing files were supposed to be distracting me from. During the course of virus clean up the laptop crashed mightily and would not reboot for a couple of days. I did not enjoy those days, especially when I realised that I hadn't backed up my photos for a while, and the only copies I had of a lot of things were in there somewhere.
My desktop has been grinding along like an ice age for months now. I'd rather not try to re-install windows (aside from anything else, I probably couldn't get Office back), so I started by removing a lot of programmes that it didn't need, and which we could reinstall later if we wanted them. (BBC iPlayer and the like.) How this ended up breaking both the sound driver and the CD ROM drive, I can't imagine. And yet.
In other news, I have been digging holes in fields again. I was quite impressed with the sizeable hole I dug yesterday - probably about 1m wide by 1.5m long and half a metre deep. I was less impressed with the complete absence of any finds whatsoever within it, but them's the breaks. Today I am temping in the afternoon. Probably just as well to have a break - swinging a mattock about is fun, but quite hard work for my puny arms, and I'm very tired.
The site itself is a bit of a weird mishmash. This is not a surprise, as the bit of it we dug last year was a bit of a weird mishmash as well. My impression is that it's been used and re-used so often that you can't really get a clear picture, but we will see what the professionals say. The comedy tan-lines at my wrists have begun. I will be back on that site a bit next week, and on another site for a couple of weeks at the end of the month. I suspect they will be really hilarious by mid-August.
I dyed my hair streak green for
smarla's wedding (which was lovely, btw). Unfortunately the colour was a bit more... neon than I had bargained for. It also faded out a) really quickly, and b) very yellow. I have run some blue over it this morning, and I'm hoping that will make it a little less obtrusive. It should at least go a dark green, if not properly blue. (She said optimistically.)
And on that note, I'm off to attempt to get my shit together, and also to reboot the computer, in the hopes that it will automatically replace the CD ROM drivers I have just deleted. (It should do. The internet said so. *chews thumbnail*)
I knew I spent a lot of time on my laptop, but having had it out of commission for over a week now has been like being without a limb. I'm not sure what I've done to offend technology as a whole, but it's clearly something. The virus on my laptop appeared to erase every file and programme on it. It turned out it only hid them, but that was a nasty few minutes. Then overnight they came back and all looked fine. Call me paranoid, but that just made me wonder what the disappearing files were supposed to be distracting me from. During the course of virus clean up the laptop crashed mightily and would not reboot for a couple of days. I did not enjoy those days, especially when I realised that I hadn't backed up my photos for a while, and the only copies I had of a lot of things were in there somewhere.
My desktop has been grinding along like an ice age for months now. I'd rather not try to re-install windows (aside from anything else, I probably couldn't get Office back), so I started by removing a lot of programmes that it didn't need, and which we could reinstall later if we wanted them. (BBC iPlayer and the like.) How this ended up breaking both the sound driver and the CD ROM drive, I can't imagine. And yet.
In other news, I have been digging holes in fields again. I was quite impressed with the sizeable hole I dug yesterday - probably about 1m wide by 1.5m long and half a metre deep. I was less impressed with the complete absence of any finds whatsoever within it, but them's the breaks. Today I am temping in the afternoon. Probably just as well to have a break - swinging a mattock about is fun, but quite hard work for my puny arms, and I'm very tired.
The site itself is a bit of a weird mishmash. This is not a surprise, as the bit of it we dug last year was a bit of a weird mishmash as well. My impression is that it's been used and re-used so often that you can't really get a clear picture, but we will see what the professionals say. The comedy tan-lines at my wrists have begun. I will be back on that site a bit next week, and on another site for a couple of weeks at the end of the month. I suspect they will be really hilarious by mid-August.
I dyed my hair streak green for
smarla's wedding (which was lovely, btw). Unfortunately the colour was a bit more... neon than I had bargained for. It also faded out a) really quickly, and b) very yellow. I have run some blue over it this morning, and I'm hoping that will make it a little less obtrusive. It should at least go a dark green, if not properly blue. (She said optimistically.)
And on that note, I'm off to attempt to get my shit together, and also to reboot the computer, in the hopes that it will automatically replace the CD ROM drivers I have just deleted. (It should do. The internet said so. *chews thumbnail*)