Day. From. Hell
Dec. 1st, 2007 11:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsToday started off so well and then this afternoon just descended into suckage.
Ros woke me up with croissants that she had warmed in the oven and juice. We had a leisurely breakfast and then headed off to Ikea. Got a bit lost on the way but it was ok.
Didn't buy any of the things I was hoping to get, but I did get a sprayer for my plant. Ros is giving me a cutting of something else soon. Gah! The pressure and responsibility! ;)
We wandered round a few more shops to look at Christmas presents for Ros. Her 5 year old nephew is really into pirates so she bought Pop Up Pirate on my recommendation. LOL. I still love that game even now and we played it last time![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
drbillbongo was here.
Had lunch at Ros's and then came home.jacqui_hw had already made a start on putting up the decorations and it was all looking good.
We decided to move some furniture to make room for the tree and this is where it went wrong. We moved the computer to the other side of the room and switched it on fine. Then we had to restart it and it switched itself off and wouldn't turn on again. At first I thought it had overheated, but on opening it up I saw my motherboard had died.
Shit!
Luckily, I had a new one which I was saving until after I've done my hardware training course and knew how to install it properly. You see where this is going. Based purely on guesswork I stripped the whole thing down, installed the new motherboard and wired it back up again. Because I really had no idea what I was doing I called Dave (who only lives around the corner from me) and asked if he would mind taking a look before I plugged it back in again. He very kindly popped over and said it looked fine. Go me!
We plugged it in and nothing happened. No power. Nothing. Dave spent an hour looking over everything and poking and prodding and he couldn't work out why it's not working either. Now I have to take it to work on Monday and let our hardware guy poke and prod at it.
All in all I think I spent about 4 hours fiddling with the damn thing. Not fun!
On top of that when it came time to put up our Christmas tree part of the stand was missing so we had to empty the cupboard looking for it. Typically it was in the last box we checked.
So, what should have been a couple of hours putting up decorations turned into several hours of me fiddling with the PC. The decorations aren't done and I'm exhausted.
Only got a few paragraphs left to do on my fic but I just don't have the energy for it now :(
And in other sad news Kelly Brook has pulled out of Strictly Come Dancing due to the death of her father on Monday :(
Ros woke me up with croissants that she had warmed in the oven and juice. We had a leisurely breakfast and then headed off to Ikea. Got a bit lost on the way but it was ok.
Didn't buy any of the things I was hoping to get, but I did get a sprayer for my plant. Ros is giving me a cutting of something else soon. Gah! The pressure and responsibility! ;)
We wandered round a few more shops to look at Christmas presents for Ros. Her 5 year old nephew is really into pirates so she bought Pop Up Pirate on my recommendation. LOL. I still love that game even now and we played it last time
drbillbongo was here.Had lunch at Ros's and then came home.
jacqui_hw had already made a start on putting up the decorations and it was all looking good.We decided to move some furniture to make room for the tree and this is where it went wrong. We moved the computer to the other side of the room and switched it on fine. Then we had to restart it and it switched itself off and wouldn't turn on again. At first I thought it had overheated, but on opening it up I saw my motherboard had died.
Shit!
Luckily, I had a new one which I was saving until after I've done my hardware training course and knew how to install it properly. You see where this is going. Based purely on guesswork I stripped the whole thing down, installed the new motherboard and wired it back up again. Because I really had no idea what I was doing I called Dave (who only lives around the corner from me) and asked if he would mind taking a look before I plugged it back in again. He very kindly popped over and said it looked fine. Go me!
We plugged it in and nothing happened. No power. Nothing. Dave spent an hour looking over everything and poking and prodding and he couldn't work out why it's not working either. Now I have to take it to work on Monday and let our hardware guy poke and prod at it.
All in all I think I spent about 4 hours fiddling with the damn thing. Not fun!
On top of that when it came time to put up our Christmas tree part of the stand was missing so we had to empty the cupboard looking for it. Typically it was in the last box we checked.
So, what should have been a couple of hours putting up decorations turned into several hours of me fiddling with the PC. The decorations aren't done and I'm exhausted.
Only got a few paragraphs left to do on my fic but I just don't have the energy for it now :(
And in other sad news Kelly Brook has pulled out of Strictly Come Dancing due to the death of her father on Monday :(
