end of my respite
Sun Apr 28 15:49:16 EDT 2013
Well, I was going to spend the afternoon out on the deck with my laptop watching old TV shows. But there were questions from work again.
And shortly after 14:00 it started raining, so (the dog and) I came back inside. If it's raining here, it's probably already raining at the hippy farm too, but maybe not hard enough to chase everyone off early. (Hmmm, on the weather RADAR it looks like a thin band of a front coming through here, but it's much broader in Pennsylvania. It's probably going to rain on them for quite a while.)
Monday 09:06
anniemal wasn't home before I went to bed last night. The dog is still sleeping outside my bedroom door, so she's probably still not home yet. [Nope, the van's not back, and OkCupid buddy's car is still here.] It didn't rain much here Sunday, so maybe it wasn't as bad at the farm as it looked on the weather RADAR. I suppose they could have decided to stay an extra night. There's probably no point in trying to call Annie's cell phone to try to find out. The RADAR now looks much better there than here. They've got a good tent, and sleeping in the van is always a option too.
The forecast for the next couple of days is intermittent rain, and it's likely to be raining the next 2 evenings, (and Wednesday's choir rehearsal,) so I'm probably off the bike until Thursday.
Tuesday 02:01
It sounds like they had rain all day Sunday at the farm. They got back here this afternoon.
I wasted a couple of hours on Anniemal's laptop tonight. It doesn't recognize its touchpad. It's fine with an external USB mouse or trackball. Apparently there have been some Ubuntu updates that have lost the functionality of the touchpad, but none of the remedies I've seen online has worked. She says she shut the computer down normally before she left Friday, and it wasn't working when she turned it on today. Last I saw her Friday she was drunk, so (a) I doubt that she knows whether there was anything unusual about the shutdown, and (b) she may have dropped it or found some magic key combination that disables the touchpad. (Fn+F8 does that in Windows.) You may recall that the screen has some sort of speckled damage, and she says she did nothing to cause that, either. I'm not keen on giving up my USB trackball, although Annie's enamoured of its red glitter ball. I guess I'll find another, but I'm sure that one must have been a bargain when I found it.
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comments).]
Well, I was going to spend the afternoon out on the deck with my laptop watching old TV shows. But there were questions from work again.
And shortly after 14:00 it started raining, so (the dog and) I came back inside. If it's raining here, it's probably already raining at the hippy farm too, but maybe not hard enough to chase everyone off early. (Hmmm, on the weather RADAR it looks like a thin band of a front coming through here, but it's much broader in Pennsylvania. It's probably going to rain on them for quite a while.)
Monday 09:06
anniemal wasn't home before I went to bed last night. The dog is still sleeping outside my bedroom door, so she's probably still not home yet. [Nope, the van's not back, and OkCupid buddy's car is still here.] It didn't rain much here Sunday, so maybe it wasn't as bad at the farm as it looked on the weather RADAR. I suppose they could have decided to stay an extra night. There's probably no point in trying to call Annie's cell phone to try to find out. The RADAR now looks much better there than here. They've got a good tent, and sleeping in the van is always a option too.
The forecast for the next couple of days is intermittent rain, and it's likely to be raining the next 2 evenings, (and Wednesday's choir rehearsal,) so I'm probably off the bike until Thursday.
Tuesday 02:01
It sounds like they had rain all day Sunday at the farm. They got back here this afternoon.
I wasted a couple of hours on Anniemal's laptop tonight. It doesn't recognize its touchpad. It's fine with an external USB mouse or trackball. Apparently there have been some Ubuntu updates that have lost the functionality of the touchpad, but none of the remedies I've seen online has worked. She says she shut the computer down normally before she left Friday, and it wasn't working when she turned it on today. Last I saw her Friday she was drunk, so (a) I doubt that she knows whether there was anything unusual about the shutdown, and (b) she may have dropped it or found some magic key combination that disables the touchpad. (Fn+F8 does that in Windows.) You may recall that the screen has some sort of speckled damage, and she says she did nothing to cause that, either. I'm not keen on giving up my USB trackball, although Annie's enamoured of its red glitter ball. I guess I'll find another, but I'm sure that one must have been a bargain when I found it.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/595264.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]