Is it a crime to throttle people? Or punch them in the face? Or take them by the collar and shake them?

Back from the notary's... with basically nothing achieved apart from spending an hour listening to the potential contract being read to us. And why? Because the little old lady selling the flat did still not have all the required documents.

( Cut for the sake of f-lists everywhere. )

Why can't Amazon, in its infinite wisdom whenever it suggests things to someone, ever incorporate the location data of the person they're spamming? Advertising Kindle "with global wireless" to me isn't going to do me much good when "global" means "~100 countries", of which Estonia is not one ( Read more... )

Bloody fuses just blew out again on my side of the flat. That makes twice in two days ( Read more... )

I'm now on holiday. Well, officially I'm on holiday as of the coming Monday, which might explain why I still have some 1500 words of work to do today or tomorrow. But that should be manageable. And then there will be three glorious weeks of no work ( Read more... )

When will people get it that the thing you screw in front of the camera is called a lens? Not a lense. Certainly not a len.

Lens is the singular, nominative case.

And the plural of that is not len's. It's not lens', even. It's also not lens. It's lenses.

Argh.

Edit note: I do realise that lense seems to be an almost generally accepted ( Read more... )

My monitor at home seems to have died this morning, so I will be around even less.

Still have the laptop, but I might just be taking more breaks from the computer at home anyway, until I can go and get a decent new monitor. Which will probably be a problem, since it looks like there aren't any decent 19'' 4:3 ratio monitors available any more.

I've been idly speculating for a while that I might at some point need a new desktop computer as the current one is getting rather too slow for my liking and is prone to freezing up whenever I've had Firefox open for more than half a day. Sadly it's at an age where upgrading isn't possible really - would have to get a new motherboard, CPU, ( Read more... )

I've got old ( Read more... )

Quite drained. Hate the current work. Feeling moderately crappy. Weather sucks - snow gone, having rain and wind instead. Winter time sucks too, it's like bloody midnight when it's not even 4 pm yet. Wanted to eat grapes but mum (who had already finished off her share) took them away to take artsy pictures, and I haven't got them back yet ( Read more... )

Gah. Tired, and the week hasn't even started properly yet ( Read more... )