Suprised to be home...

So, I should be at my mums, but vague cold type symptoms mean I've come home...

...and my new hard-disk has arrived, which'll give me something to do in a bit.

I'm trying to let it acclimatise to the temperature in the house. I also got a letter from Rachel *WOOT* which leaves me finding my sparkly pens and some paper to reply to her with. Sadly, too late to send her an Xmas card (if I actually *had* any left that is).

I also had to bring home my lemon tree. And a small bushy plant thing that's managed to find a home in the pot. I may open the tree up for naming... Although it's looking a bit sickly. It doesn't like the cold and it'd got too big for my mum to bring it in the house over winter. So it's now sat decorating our back room. Everyone be nice to it. (I'll take a picture at some point, it's quite...big).

Yeah. So I guess I better go unpack and work.

Woo, cold for Christmas! Go Kate!

The SATA begins...

So, I bought a 200Gb SATA drive. Probably shouldn't have done, but hell, it was 3 quid more than the nearest price non SATA drive. So I thought I'd be all new and spangly.

Only...

...it never occured to me, not as I hit that order button, that they have a different *power* cable. The bizzarest thing is it's not like it uses any other voltages, or the drives any smaller (maybe there are variants which are smaller, I guess) but it... well... Couldn't they just have used a floppy drive power cable? It's about the same size and it already exists...?

Of course the bizzare thing for me is that I used to *be* in IT and I'd've looked at some pillock who'd done what I've done today with that special kind of distain reserved for mere mortals. But here I am going 'gah, what a moron' to myself. Fortunately, I need to go on a spending spree and buy some food and some printer cartridges tomorrow. So I can pick one up (in the enjoyable pre-xmas rush) then.

Independent Online Edition > Transport

Independent Online Edition > Transport

Oh good fuck.

Get me the hell out of this country!

[wonders if it'll cope with her inverted colour scheme numberplates]

Daily Kos: Culture of Life: Pull the plug on conscious patients - W's law.

Daily Kos: Culture of Life: Pull the plug on conscious patients - W's law.

Jesus fucking christ.