The Importance of Being Idle

Reeling In The Years

Things have been odd around these here parts. Not long after my last post I managed to contract a very nasty and painful infection which pretty much kept me rolling about in agony for a few days. Then, once that'd passed and I could stand and walk and stuff, the computer decided to play silly buggers. It's been having it's moments for a while now, the odd hang and crash, but I didn't really think it was anything beyond what you'd normally expect to go wrong with a PC once they get to be a couple of years old. Last week though it escalated to a much higher level of unpleasantness and it's taken me a while and a fair few experiments to figure out what the heck was going wrong. Long story short, the fan on the power supply is dodgy. Now whether it's actually the fan that's dodgy, or the temperature sensors in there that control it is kinda difficult for me to figure out, although my money would be on the fan itself 'cos it started up just now when I gave it a prod! I don't recommend prodding fans in power supplies by the way, in case anyone was thinking of doing this at home.
What else has been going on?
Well I finally succumbed to the lure of World of Warcraft, and I have to say that I'm finding it incredibly enjoyable and it has been the catalyst something of a renaissance in gaming for me when I was starting to find it all a bit stale. So that's interesting. I also seem to have finally buried my grudge with Games Workshop as we went shopping for miniatures the other day and I'm teaching Ronnie to paint! And on top of all that I saw the consultant at the hospital yesterday and he said I was pretty much all clear, there were a few more tests to do (scheduled for March!) but he expects them to be clear and the cause of my problems to remain unknown. Still he said I'll be okay to go back to work soon, which is great news.
I'm worried about the strain this whole thing is putting on Ronnie. She's had a cold for the past week, and she's worked every day this week (except for Friday when I went to the hospital) and she's working everyday next week too, and most of the week after that. She's so tired now, I can't wait to be bringing a bit of money into the house again so she can quit the bar work and have some time off. She's worked so hard, and I don't think I can adequately express how much everything she's done means to me. I guess I'll just have to spend the rest of my life trying eh? I feel so useless, 'cos there seems to be so little I can do to make things better for her at the moment. *sad face*
Remember that Archie got put on a diet a while ago 'cos he's like two cats? Well he's not been happy with his new diet, and on Monday he made that quite clear when he ran away! Took us bloody ages to find him too, the little sod, and even when we did find him he wouldn't let us get near enough to pick him up. I was so glad to see him, I was terrified that one of the dogs that walk back there had frightened him and he'd run off and got lost, or ran onto the parkway or something equally terrible. But no, he was just hanging about in other people's gardens and refusing to come back in! I came back inside and got a big bowl of tuna, 'cos I knew he'd come to me for that! Now he's getting some meat for lazy cats in his bowl as well as the diet biscuits, and he only gets supervised outside time, but he seems much happier overall.
We've seen lots of films; Casino Royale, V for Vendetta, Brick, Thank You For Smoking... actually that doesn't seem like loads, but they're all well worth your time, assuming you have time to spare!

posted by BadMonkey @ 11:55 AM