Holidays
Saturday was the first day of my holidays - I don’t go back to work until after Labour Day. Seventeen wonderful days off! I don’t really have much of anything planned, although a friend is having a bbq on the 26th. I’ll definitely have to go to that.
This morning I managed to make xenon unbootable. It kept cutting out a second or two after turning on, like the CPU was overheating. But unplugging some drives let it boot normally. I guess the power supply decided to not agree with all those drives and the new memory (if that made any difference). I’m sure the dust packed into the PSU fan wasn’t helping. So I went to bed (after managing to mess up my Firefox installation on my laptop) and switched cases tonight when I woke up. Everything is working fine, and this case has a 300W power supply, not a 250W. Of course, being a cheap computer case, I managed to slice my finger open and bleed everywhere. Halfway from the second knuckle on my right ring finger, to the third knuckle (towards the nail). About two centimetres long, I guess. I didn’t even know I did it until I felt something wet, thinking I had spilled coffee somewhere. Except coffee isn’t red. But liquid bandage saves the day! I still have a scar on my wrist from working on another cheap computer case a couple of years ago. But that didn’t bleed, I just ended up with a missing chunk of flesh.
I ordered a Moleskine pocket notebook on eBay this weekend. I’ve been thinking about starting some kind of paper journal for a while now. Something I was never interested in doing before, but trying new things is good. Google is a wonderful thing - while searching for sites talking about the Pilot G-2 pen (my favorite pen ever), I came across a thread on Metafilter about Moleskine notebooks. People seem to like using them, so I figured I’d get one to see for myself.