Oh For Crying Out Loud

[liadnan]

This is now less than funny.

Having eventually given up and gone drinking once my laptop battery had given up the ghost yesterday, I actually had a fair amount to catch up on today. Arrived in bright and early and started banging away on Stuff, and then..

Flicker flicker bang.

Lights go off again. Laptop, which is slightly flaky on the battery at the best of times decides to faint in manner of early 19th century romantic heroine wearing punishing corset, taking with it unbacked up work and corrupting, for reasons I don't quite understand, half my preference settings on various applications.

Bollocks.

Only half the area went this time, because unlike yesterday (apparently caused by "a high voltage cable [dramatically] exploding at Farringdon" (6 injured)) this was the local substation going, presumably because it felt depressed and let down. Well, we've all been there. No one quite understood why it was bits and pieces of the area that went, rather than any coherent chunk, but here it is.

Eventually I found a free room where we still had power, and managed to restore some sense of order and propriety to my life, or at least my laptop, but it's bloody cold in here and I have to send this out tonight. So I'm not in the best of moods (how odd, they all remark). So whinging is all you're going to receive from me today: the witty, elegant posts will have to wait for another lifetime. As will the sestina. Or siesta, whichever seems more appropriate.

Comments

[fairymelusine.livejournal.com]

Having eventually given up and gone drinking once my laptop battery had given up the ghost yesterday

Good. Very good. Now we know you are at least sensible.

[fi.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe a power surge? Or maybe your laptop is the cause of it all ;-)