How to make a librarian laugh and other nonsense
As part of my work I belong to a variety of different mailing lists. A children's literature one, a chartership one and two general public library ones. On the whole the issues on the public library ones are relatively sensible but sometimes a whole spate of silliness pervades. As when someone commented in the middle of a discussion of shelf tidying that the whole idea of grading was silly as pixies do shelf tidying. The current spate which altho serious may have had some judicious exaggeration has been about those motorised buggies the elderly and some disabled use. I'm not sure why but the whole idea of a counter being dented by one when someone accidentally went the wrong direction made us at my work place laugh out loud. But then it got worse. Apparently a woman in one of these leant down to grab something and her bra strap caught on the accelerator and she completely trashed a CD display.... so anyway that's what makes a librarian laugh.
In other news my laptop may well be departing. It's got very slow but worse than that, the keyboard and mousepad now crash. I can fix the mousepad problem temporarily by plugging in a USB mouse but the keyboard does not seem to be fixable. Not even when I plug in a keyboard (not USB). It seems to happen about 5-10 mins after I turn on. At first I thought it was overheating cos of the generally hot weather but now I'm convinced my laptop is just fucked. It's very frustrating as I don't have trillian on my parents desktop or in fact itunes and my music. I could buy a new laptop but I'm not that insane. I'm not splashing out on another 700 quid. I could also just buy an external HD and put my itunes music on it and then use my parents computer. But that seems a total waste. I am hoping newgadgetguy will have a look at the thing and tell me if it's fixable, which if it would cost under what it cost to buy would be a great!
What else can I tell you? I made the rather odd choice to take my brother to the pub to see the England game on Tuesday, but didn't watch the game, instead I played Tetris, sorry Fremtris on my mobile and read Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies for Book Group. It was interesting in a sort of anthropological way. Men are very weird. All that hugging and slapping each other and cheering and booing and singing. All things which men would rather die than be seen doing in other contexts.
Will go now as I'm meant to start work any second now.
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In other news my laptop may well be departing. It's got very slow but worse than that, the keyboard and mousepad now crash. I can fix the mousepad problem temporarily by plugging in a USB mouse but the keyboard does not seem to be fixable. Not even when I plug in a keyboard (not USB). It seems to happen about 5-10 mins after I turn on. At first I thought it was overheating cos of the generally hot weather but now I'm convinced my laptop is just fucked. It's very frustrating as I don't have trillian on my parents desktop or in fact itunes and my music. I could buy a new laptop but I'm not that insane. I'm not splashing out on another 700 quid. I could also just buy an external HD and put my itunes music on it and then use my parents computer. But that seems a total waste. I am hoping newgadgetguy will have a look at the thing and tell me if it's fixable, which if it would cost under what it cost to buy would be a great!
What else can I tell you? I made the rather odd choice to take my brother to the pub to see the England game on Tuesday, but didn't watch the game, instead I played Tetris, sorry Fremtris on my mobile and read Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies for Book Group. It was interesting in a sort of anthropological way. Men are very weird. All that hugging and slapping each other and cheering and booing and singing. All things which men would rather die than be seen doing in other contexts.
Will go now as I'm meant to start work any second now.
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