Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.
So my replacement screen arrived yesterday. I boxed up my old screen first thing in the morning before I started work, and spent most of the day on my laptop - but more on that later.
The guy rolled up at about 4pm, but the return label was on the new box, so we had to unpack my old screen and put it in the box the new one came in. Bit ridiculous, but I can see the sense in it. It all happened so fast - he had it packed and in his van before I'd barely had a chance ...
As I mentioned at the start of the year, my shiny monitor has a broken power button, which - as all monitor aficionados will know - is the most important button. However, I have a 3 year monitor replacement contract, so I rang up Dell and the new one should be arriving today.
Excellent news, in theory. A bit overkill if you ask me, replacing the whole thing for a broken bit of plastic, but you know me - I'm not one to complain.
The only thing is, my replacement is probably going to be a dirty stinkin' refurb. That makes me ...
I've just realised it's 10 years to the day that I first heard the dulcet tones of my 56k modem dialing in to Force 9, so it's my 10th internet birthday today, and my 25th real life birthday on Saturday (thanks for all the comments!)
I had an awesome real-life birthday over the weekend - Leela took me to London, we stayed in a fancy hotel, saw Chicago, went on the London Eye and to the natural history, science and imperial war museums, visited the Tate modern, wandered along Oxford street (although couldn't find anything to buy ...
It's my birthday today! I'm 25 now. I can no longer tick the questionnaire box that says 18-24. Still, at least i'm having an excellent day! Details later :)
I'd forgotten it was half term this week. Needless to say, by the time my train had reached Kemble this morning, I had remembered.
I was surrounded by children, who were all shrieking or crying, while their parents stared on in admiration, oblivious to the fact that they're in a quiet carriage and that people around them were trying to work. Yes, I dare say that if it had been my child I would have also taken great pride in its ability to make enough noise to piss off the entire train, but as the lucky passenger who ...