56 years

Well, England lost and a nation mourns. The GF is very cast down, a lover of football who has never seen his national team win. I at least saw Pakistan win at cricket when I was 11, so got that out of the way early, when it still mattered. We watched it on a rather […]

Hooray

Second dose booked, yay! And I’ve been told that in the UK at least worsened skin conditions have been widely reported as a side effect of the vaccine, so hopefully the eczema will settle down soon. And also not recur with the second dose. Donald Rumsfeld is dead. A man who loomed large over my […]

Go, go, go!

And my computer came on this morning and I immediately set to work, frantically backing up and setting up backup systems. I have no idea what happened, but well, I suppose it’s time to pay for a proper backup now, automated, since I’m incapable of managing it myself. Thank heavens. I’m reconciled to buying a […]

Flicker of hope

A flicker of hope this morning as my computer came on for a few seconds, seemingly in the same state as I’d left it on Saturday. It immediately went out again but it seems at least that the data at least is still there. I should have gone for the repair today but my feet […]

Shattered

This morning I turned on my computer for a bit of work and – it would not come on. The power light stayed on, the fan was on but the machine was cool, and nothing. Dead. It looks like the motherboard, which has long threatened to expire, might finally have died, and of course this […]