Categories: random
Tags: thesis, stress, house, technical woes, pest control
Date: 24 August 2009 16:59:09
Some friends already know this, but anyway: a bit of a laptop disaster over the weekend when, just as I was about to get down to a bit of work on Saturday morning, my laptop decided to open lots of windows. LOTS of windows. As fast as I closed them more seemed to be appearing, it was like it was possessed. Fortunately I have my own personal exorcist, but even Mr Techie HD said "Ooh, I've never seen that happen before", which is a bit concerning. Nothing has been lost (as far as I can tell) and most important things (thesis, photos) are copied elsewhere, but we are looking at copying over what we can to another machine and then restoring factory settings and hopefully the evilz will have gone by then. If not then we will take it to someone who knows what they're doing - HD could take it to bits, but as he himself said, when he does that he usually finds bits left over when he's put it back together again. So yesterday involved copious handwriting of the CCD (current chapter of doom) and no playing on the internet which was a pain but funnily enough I got loads done (strange, that). I haven't finished the chapter, but my supervisors were fine with me typing up what I've done so far and sending that to them today so we have something to talk about in supervision, and I'll go back to the chapter next week. For the rest of this week I shall mostly be editing my (hopeful, if they are happy with my changes) book chapter as the deadline for that is next Monday.
After the laptop possession incident, we ran away to eastern Scotland (there be dragons) on Saturday for Derf's manse-warming barbecue. I am now suffering an acute case of house-envy (especially garden-envy).
In other news, I'm wondering if my office window is near a wasps' nest. Have had to eject several today (although I suppose I could have just ejected one particularly persistent and stupid one several times, as once I got cross and killed it rather than help it fly away I haven't been bothered by any others).