For months, I’ve been getting steadily more tired and breathless; and I’ve been waking up with a dull, throbbing headache, every single morning without fail. So I took myself along to see Doc G yesterday; he couldn’t find anything obviously wrong, so he booked me in for lots of tests. This morning, I wake up […]
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In an earlier post, I related how I got so peed off with the ignorant credulity of the Independent on Sunday’s science writing that I switched to the Observer. Yesterday’s front page story gave me cause to start rethinking my decision: Forensic DNA tests ‘reveal traces of Madeleine’s body on resort beach’. This reported how […]
…my eyes are playing up again. I’d left off putting in the twice-daily eyedrops about a week ago, thinking that maybe the dry eyes thing was just a temporary phase. But it’s not – yesterday I woke up with blurred sight, barely able to read anything. So the day was spent lying on the sofa, […]
Got my computer back, for the time being. Our super new printer has run out of toner, and it will be a few days before we can get some more. So B can’t do any printing for now. I’ve got a motherboard for B’s computer on order, should be here by the end of the […]
My machine is now inaccessible for me most of the time, owing to B having to print the Elfin Desk Diary on it. One of the last things his motherboard did before popping its clogs was to corrupt the one and only Diary file that he was printing from. (Yes, I know, back up, always […]
B’s computer problems turned out to be a dying motherboard. The HD was fine, and I stuck it in my machine and installed XP and everything else with no problems. So he’s now using my machine for this urgent print job that he’s in the middle of. Which means I don’t have much time to […]
It’s been a frustrating couple of days. Yesterday, B’s computer started playing up, with crashes and corrupted files. After spending all day trying to diagnose the problems, it became clear that the old Win 98 OS was falling apart. So, we agreed to reformat the drive this morning and install XP. Well, it sounded like […]
…is always worth pinching, I say. So here I present my answer to Dawkins’ “Scarlet Letter” (see previous post): the astrologers’ “Sky-Blue Letter”! If you’re an astrologer, feel free to copy it and display it on your blog or website, linked to your local astrological group’s site. For Astrological Association members, I’ve also designed a […]
Over a week ago, I ordered a graphics tablet on eBay. It was second-hand; I checked the price of the new model and it costs £25 – £30. So I wasn’t surprised that the asking price for this was only £4.99. It arrived this morning – without a stylus. Checking the item description on eBay […]
Remember that landscape painting I started back in January? Well, I struggled and strugled with it, repainted it again and again. But it just wouldn’t work. Nothing came right. So, the other day, in a fit of anger after a final futile attempt, I got a tube of white and smeared it all over the […]