{ you got to keep the devil way down in the hole. }

[delga]

I've bruised my throat. How? It itches and I'm trying to alleviate the itch without pressing the wrong part or freaking out my oesophagus. True story.

Guys: I'm a fucking moron.

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I got up early today because I had to go to the community centre (no, I still haven't worked out whether or not I want to capitalise that) for a (completely useless) meeting. I turned on my laptop 15 minutes before I was due to leave and got hit with the blue screen of death. Grrreat. Wrote down the error code and then quick-marched to the centre where I looked it up and looked up a solution.

Then I went to that USELESS meeting and then I made phonecalls and then I went home instead of marching myself to the community centre. My legs feel a little better this evening so either I'm in for a really bad night or my tides are turning, so to speak.

Anyway, came home, booted the laptop using my XP disk and then ran chkdsk which kept halting at 50%, telling me there were irreparable errors on the hard drive. I then ran chkdsk without the repair function and it got to 75% before telling me the same thing. I then ran it again, and it got to 100% without any issue. So I decided to run the repair function and it hit 75%... then dialled back to 50%. I watched that happen twice so in the end I decided to just restart the laptop.

It works now, but I don't know what that was about. I'm a little nervous about shutting the laptop down tonight. Not too much because everything is backed up but I didn't get all the installation disks with my laptop so if it blue screens me again and I have to wipe and start fresh, there are a couple of programs I'm going to lose that I need. So. Sigh.

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On the way home from the centre I bumped into an old woman who lives in the town. I haven't seen her in a couple of years and her daughter died of cancer in December. But I stopped, we spoke, and then I gave her a hug. It was nice to see her at long last.

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The Dad and The Sister are back from Wales; I thought they'd be gone until tomorrow but no such luck. I still have to work a shift tomorrow which I know is going to be ridiculously long because it's the lunch shift and then the afternoon one, which frankly I could do without. I've not been on the books since December so all the work I've been doing since Christmas has been unpaid. I mean actually unpaid as opposed to paid in secret or whatever the hell it was that The Dad was playing at before Christmas.

And also The Dad is going to collect The Gran from Uncle #4 tomorrow. I love my grandmother but I resent all the talk about how I should be fully domesticated already.

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I'm about half-through season 4 of The Wire. I love Snoop Pearson. She's fierce. And she totally surprised me. I love her monologue at the top of the season. That was great. I also love Prez, goddamn.

I'm going to have to go back to my Homicide run-through once I've finished with this show.

Comments

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

What programs are you likely to lose - anything I might be able to help with?

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I was worried I'd lose PowerDVD but I paid for that via download so I should be able to get that back (I have the numbers etc.) It's my Sonic software that I'll lose: I use that to burn my discs. As it turns out, I don't think there's anything else.

I just hope that the laptop comes on tomorrow. I know that my dad won't help me to get it fixed if it trashes because he's a Luddite and hates that I use it. It would be a great day for him if I up and lost my one connection to the rest of the world, heh.

[fallapartagain.livejournal.com]

PowerDVD came on my old laptop but with this one, there is nothing - best I had pre-installed was WMP, I think, and I hate that with a passion. I use VLC most of the time anyway. I don't have anything to burn discs though. Curious.

I love the word Luddite. My English teacher frequently uses it to describe herself and I have to stifle a giggle every time.

OH that reminds me of a question I had for her and forgot to ask, but perhaps you could help. For an utterance to be a question, it must have an interrogative.... what? Verb?

I hate word classes.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my PowerDVD came with my laptop but I purchased the full bout; I have VLC but I prefer to use that for other things. (I hate using DVDs on non-specific media players; it does something to my discs.)

Haha. I love that it sounds so close to what it means.

It must have an interrogative word. That sounds too straight forward, I know, but there are two classes of interrogative words: determiner and pro-form (pro-forms replace nouns/verbs/adjectives/adverbs; so pronouns replace nouns; pro-verbs replace verbs etc.).

Interrogative determiners are which, what, whose. Interrogative pro-forms are either pronouns (who/whom; what/which) or pro-adverbs (where, when, why, how, etc.)

[tartary-lamb.livejournal.com]

Don't have much to say, mostly because I'm sleepy, but I did want to take the opportunity to say PREZ! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥. Um... because.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I am now on S5 and am disappointed that there is no Prez (if there is, don't tell me; I'll be pleasantly surprised)! That said: goddamn, this show. I mainlined S1&2 a few years ago and then didn't make it to my S3 DVDs. Then last Sunday I picked it up again. I'll probably be done with it by tonight. I LOVE IT.