I’m rather surprised I hadn’t come across these sooner, but… well, allow me to share with you some Lord of the Rings funny.
(Note, there’s a third and fourth installment, but those contain Language ™ and so I’m not directly linking them. You young’uns, just do the right thing and don’t go there, okay? Thanks.)
So the roomies and I played some Age of Mythology last night, and as I usually do when we’re doing computer gaming I left my bedroom door open.
This is significant because normally it’s kept closed so as to prevent the household felines from making me sneeze. However, I’m also loath to just hole up behind a closed door when engaged in fun multiplayer computer gaming with other people in the house. I’m a hermit by nature, sure, but I’m not that rude.
Problem is, apparently both cats decided to make themselves comfy on my bed last night, leading to a long night of me wheezing and sniffling. (The only allergy meds I have are “non-drowsy,” which is not what you want to be taking at 1am when you can’t sleep and have work in the morning.) I resolved to wash my bedding after I got home from work so as to take care of the pet dander problem.
So imagine my chagrin when I arrived home just now to discover that, no, I hadn’t firmly latched my bedroom door when I left for work this morning. Yep, kitties sleeping in my laundry basket. (Go ahead and make fun of me for not having put away all my clean clothes. You know you want to.) Now I get to wash not only my bedding but also my clothes, again, if I want to get through tomorrow with any lung capacity whatsoever…
I love being me. Don’t you wish you were me? You should, you know. It’s a blast.
The first line of a spam email I received this afternoon:
“Bored with your wife, girlfriend or husband?”
And my immediate thought was, “Yes, all three, how did you know?”
Stupid spammers…
First there was the “msgina.dll” error, but I didn’t see that. No, what really made my jaw drop was this one:
“The file or directory C: is invalid.”
That’s never a good sign, is it?
Yeah, I spent almost all day rebuilding one of the transmitter remote-control computers. Turns out the motherboard was fritzed, though it gave errors that led me to believe it was a partition or drive failure at first. Ah well. It could’ve been worse, I suppose.
Still, I’m glad it’s the weekend. Very, very glad.
So after seeing “DriveReady SeekComplete” errors in the logs for the server known to most as “The Lab” for a few weeks now, I decided not to wait for catastrophe but go for a full reinstall on a fresh set of drives.
Okay, one fresh drive, one slightly less than fresh drive. But you get the idea.
Oddly enough, it only took about five hours, and that’s including backing up and restoring some 7 gigabytes of data. I still have some quirks to figure out, but generally speaking it’s working as advertised. (Once again, I’m quite thrilled with the Debian Installer, by the by.)
Wow. I actually fixed something before it broke. Who knew?
Some days, all you can really ask for is not to have any serious drama. Luckily, this was just such a day.
Not that things have necessarily improved on the work front, or for that matter the interpersonal front, but at least it wasn’t a high-drama day like yesterday. I’d like for this to be the start of a trend, but then again I’m not that much of an optimist…
