Flyakite...

So I finally got around to upgrading to XP. The disks been sat around in the filing cabinet long enough, but I thought, since I was doing a semi-nuke and reinstall... well, anyway, I set to.

And about 1030 last night I set it installing, having prepared my little 'list' of software to reinstall afterwards. I'm currently about half way though the list, but I put flyakite on this time, and oooh, it's so mac-ey. Mmm.

I could almost pretend it's a mac.

Heh.

Done...and you have been ;-)

I think the install is now done. The machine is quicker and... nicer. So much nicer. Oooh, it's yummy.

I've set it up so everyone's got their own little user space. Everyone does have to put up with my screen res though, because my monitor / XP isn't clever enough to do separate resolutions for different people - at least not as far as I can tell.

Yesterday Trey and I went halvesies on a dual layer DVD-Writer, which means that some stuff can get cleared off (not a huge amount); some backed up (at last) and I can make a DVD of my stuff to send to my mum.

( suprisingly painless )

Enthusiasm Mediocre, keep in mind the paper is dead.

*sigh*

It's not like I don't care. It's not like I've not got energy. It's just... it's hot. And I really don't feel in the mood for university work at the moment. I don't need compassionate leave, I need I'm fucked off with this place leave.

Adult learning my arse.

I admit it though, I don't really feel like doing anything very much. Maybe chilling out listening to some music (e.g. the Kaiser Chiefs album, oh, hey, I'm doing that) and reading a book I know far too well...

Or wandering up a mountain?

But sitting here doing university work. I know I need to. I'm going to Alaska in... 10 weeks. In 10 weeks time I'll be in Alaska. Roughly. Or en-route. Hang on... Oh, I can't be bothered to work it out right now.

But the general point is true.

So I've got a vast amount of work to get done. And I suppose I should attempt to make some kind of progress on it. In other news, I've found the MatroxG200 card, or G100 or whatever it is (seems less than forthcoming) which goes with the PCI Matrox+Rainbow runner card.

Having looked, the Rainbow Runner definately doesn't fit onto the G200 card; which means... well... I think maybe the idea was that they both go in together - thus giving a decent AGP card for the normal use, and a second monitor displaying the output of the PCI card. Unfortunately, this desk is 'not big enough' for two monitors. So I'm left pondering.

Ponder, ponder, ponder.

Where are they?!

Okay, now this is ridiculous.

Yesterday I realised that I couldn't find my hairbrush. Now, me being me, and having looong hair I don't only have the one hair brush.

So, I fished my 'at work' hairbrush out of my bag and used it while I dried my hair.

Then today I looked around the house and... yes, you've guessed it. That hair brush has now disappeared. Oookay. Right.

Go out to car and get 'was other good but got left in car and is now emergency going somewhere need to look neat' hairbrush from car.

Only, yes, you can see it coming. That has gone too.

What the hell is going on?! Is there some hairbrush thief sneaking in to the house and extracting all the hair brushes?!

I'm now down to my "well, my mum said it's really good, but I think my hair's too thick for this one" hair brush, which really doesn't worik very well. Meh!

2 Stroke Fetishist

I'm still waiting for SP2 to finish installing. Which is a seriously long time to wait for any software to install really; about 3 hours, I think, it's been going (including download time).

I had a shower at 15:45, at which point it had just switched from downloading to installing...

Anyway, since I can't really use the machine, at least I can use it as an excuse for not working, I've been looking on ebay for things to satisfy my 2 stroke fetish... and really painfully I found this.

Anyone who knows me well, knows I have a love of Trabants and Tatras (in addition to MZs and Morris Minors); and I've wanted a Trabant since about 1994, around when I saw one in the Design Museum in London.

But not just any Trabant; I want an early 601 Kombi (or 'Universal'). And this is the oldest I've seen, it's a runner, okay it's battered and missing lots of bits, but it's 1 frickin' Euro.

For a car.

An almost complete car!

And I'll need another car in a bit over a year when I take Rebecca off the road to properly sort out her engine and transmission. I wish I could justify it. I wish I could. It's a 1964 Universal from the first year of trabant manufacture. I don't have the time to fix it, the money to go and get it, or... well, anything. Which is frustrating. Meh.