Today….

…I’ve got to myself. For some reason (maybe to do with trying to come off the Ibroprufen?), I’ve been sleeping very badly for the last few nights. So I’ve been feeling tired, cranky and my arthritis has been giving me hell. So, this morning, when B & Son went off to Ayre to buy some bathroom stuff, I cried off and stayed behind.
I finally gave in and swallowed a dose of Ibuprofen and felt a lot better after an hour. And now I’ve decided to put my new computer together!
🙂

Later:

New computer is still lying eviscerated in the kitchen. I’d forgotton the real joy of assembling one – all those dozens of little leads to be plugged into the right places on the motherboard. My b*ggered eyesight couldn’t read the tiny jumper labels, so I had to scrabble through the house for my magnifying glass; I then had to try to hold the magnifying glass and the mobo diagram whilst plugging in each fiddly little lead. Eventually I had to give up – I got the beginnings of a headache and the constant bending over was making it difficult for me to get in enough breath, so that an angina attack was threatening.
Then B and Son came home and I had to do family stuff anyway. But I’ll do some more on it tomorrow. I vividly remember the last time I built a computer for myself – I got it all finished and plugged in, then very carefully switched it on; when the screen lit up and the OS logo appeared, I screamed “It lives!! It lives!!” and danced around the room, whooping and laughing.

I want to do that again!