I have spent most of the last six hours trying to get Kate’s laptop working. It is only about 2 months old and has Windows Vista on it (which I have never had anything to do with). It just wouldn’t boot up, got a little way into the boot sequence and stopped with a blank, black screen. Wouldn’t start in Safe mode either. Running the Dell diagnostics showed no problems, so I was pretty convinced it was a Windows issue, not hardware. As Kate had Uni work on there, with assignments due soon, she was a little worried.
We managed to get it booted off a CD, and the data on the hard disk looked okay. We managed to get a USB memory stick working and managed to get all her data copied off, then bit the bullet and re-installed Vista. This took friggin ages. Anyway it’s done now and we think all we have lost is 6 hours of our lives. Bloody Windows, bloody Microsoft. I know what Em is thinking right now too, and she is probably right – it probably wouldn’t have happened if we were using a Mac. Kate wanted to buy a Mac too, and I talked her out of it. Bloody idiot.
Today started off with a swim, the first one for the month. I have had a bit of a sore neck the last few days and I think the swim helped loosen that up a bit, either the swim or the spa afterwards. Anyway, the usual 60 laps or 1.5km were swum. Rant for the day is again, why do some swimmers feel the need to join you in your lane if there are free ones? It just doesn’t compute to me I’m afraid – what are they thinking?
An unsuccessful trip to Essendon DFO, trying to get a cheap pair of Sauconys. They had Omni’s for $90, but not in my size. A bit more success at JB though, where we did buy a new, cheap DVD player to replace one that has died, and I got a live Angels CD (I’m really going through an Angels phase at the moment). IT is the Angels Band Live At The Basement (the rest of the band without Doc Neeson). I think it might be accompanying me on a few runs this week!
