the good with the bad

The last of the wires in my laptop's power cord separated. Of all the worst times for my computer to fail out on me, when I am tring to write 3 papers at once and all the readings are online for two of them. The repair shop just looked at me, said "that's dangerous" and gave me a telephone number to call for parts. Big help...
But Scott my favorite sysadmin had an extra one and is lending it to me until I can order a replacement! Amazing, it was sitting right on his shelf waiting. He also was kind enough to pull numbers out of his ass that were lower than the numbers the repair shop guy pulled out of his ass for estimated cost of the part. ;-) hooray for scott buchanan!

The weather was gorgeous, sunny, breezy, and warm today. I am now half sun-burned on my face. I'm going to slip over to the C-store under cover of night-time, and buy me some sunblock before dawn.

All of the difficult stuff will have come due by the end of this week. Then maybe I can sleep again, or feel good.

back to work