If there’s one failing both Kathryn and I have it’s Laundry. Neither of us is terribly good at getting laundry done before there’s a mound in the washing basket the size of 3 loads. And we’re also neither brilliant at doing laundry before it’s needed. This normally isn’t a problem; one of us will get around to it.
Today though, I thought, I’ll change the sheets – we’ve both been saying it needs doing since the middle of the week; but while I’m on nights I can’t be arsed. I stripped off the old sheets, and fished round in the cupboard… And uh, we’ve not laundered any of the bed linen for so long that we’ve, uh, got none at all.
So that’s the first job of today… (done :) ).
Jobs I have planned for today are contact play.com about my mum’s ethernet adaptor which hasn’t been shipped 2 weeks after ordering (sorted: Cancelled the order and bought a different one from the USA since it appears that Apple are being slightly slow bringing it to the UK), installing OS X on the Shiny Mac, collecting a package from the post office and generally staying awake (I woke up at 4am, bloody sod it). I might do some grouting, and I might go get a palm sander and some little baby torx drivers to sort the Mac out.
I’m still trying to work out what to do with the laptop. I wanted to install Gentoo on it, but the only X86 CD they do now is the minimal install CD, which is fuck-all use (to be blunt). I’m not in the mood to sit and play command line games, especially since my experience of WPA-PSK wireless under ubuntu’s live CD was a whole bundle of not-working at all.
And spending a few days sorting it is not my idea of fun. But I’m sick of reinstalling windows on it.
It needs reinstalling though, wireless is increasingly flakey, it’s slow and playing up loads in every respect. The mac awaits my attentions (and the Torx drivers), once that’s sorted I might retire this one… At least, until it can be the ‘kitchen music player and recipe finder’ or somesuch.
No battery and a screen that’s disintegrating don’t make for a very long lived laptop… :-/
I also need to take the carb apart on Brick, I think it’s sucked a bit of dirt in there (it did a fuel starvation thing on the way to work one night, didn’t do it at any point after, but before we go trecking round the country I’d like to check it’s not going to do it again).
Oh, and some tidying and cleaning’d probably not go amiss.
Right, time to go find my watch :)
