My head a splode. My eyes are stuck in the WTF position; I think my left eyeball is three times larger than my right by now. I can certainly understand why Graham is spooked. These people are SCARY ( Read more... )

There was a fairly hefty wave of zombies in the initial phase, but the electricity has stayed running... so the hedge trimmer came in very useful. I just hope whatever caused this isn't contagious, because I got pretty well covered. Decapitation works on everything, thankfully, but even with zombies it's messy. The power's been a bit flakey since, ( Read more... )

Generic Software Consultants Ltd: a bunch of arseholes. Not only did they give me no warning and wrong details for the job... just before the two weeks within which they could can me with no notice were up, they canned me. So I'm jobless again... having called the bloke there incompetent and taken to screening my calls ( Read more... )

Damnit. The fifth was Sun-day. To-day-is-THURS-day. STOP LETTING OFF FIREWORKS, CHAV SCUM!!!!

Ahem.

The timings were just too tight for me to do my bleeding yesterday. Turns out this was a good thing; I have a cold coming on.

They can have my blood when I'm better. I'm not giving them blood I need to fight a cold, that's full of buglies anyway.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I need some food, some coffee and a shedload of OJ.

Last night, my desktop computer went belly-up, completely unprovoked. The laptop was a reasonable stopgap, but I was rather apprehensive lest I have to track down a Socket A CPU, since said socket is deprecated ( Read more... )

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Dammit. Attempted to upgrade Firefox and it broke completely. Won't even fucking start. I love you too, Ubuntu...

EDIT: well THAT would have been rather easier to troubleshoot if Ubuntu had, y'know, given me the actual error messages when the errors occured. A single kill command sorted it, mostly...

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I can JUST squeak out £350. In the time between now and departure, I'd be able to save up enough money to have a little leeway for spending. But it'd wipe me out and shit on my job prospects from a great height.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!