Mostly lemon based

Day: April 10, 2014

  • starfleetinginterest:

    what if the coins you find randomly at the bottom of drawers and in between couch cushions are actually from spiders trying to pay rent

  • One of those days

    Not, oddly, one of those days where you wonder about whether your continued existence on the planet will ever produce anything tangible and worthwhile, or whether you are instead doomed to spend the entirety of the rest of your life looking at cat pictures on the internet*.

    No, today was one of those super productive days.

    I’m wondering if I need to write myself a to-do list for every day when I’m not working because the effect was astonishing.

    On my list was the following:

    – Clean some house
    – Practice Guitar
    – Practice Piano
    – Order power supply connector
    – Bottle cider
    – Garden
    – ?Print sepsis card

    And apart from the sepsis card all of it got done and some other bits and bobs. Also I listened to lots of music, which is a bonus.

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  • Note to self: When making a label to distinguish the home made cider from the home made apple juice, do not simply change the word cider for juice and not think any further about it.

    Particularly when you’ve decided your home-made apple cider is called “St Anne’s Feeder Canal Cider”.

    The end result sounds slightly unpalatable.

  • So, having ordered the benighted SuperPad a new power supply toying with I discover it’s got a new fun trick. It’s now decided that the WiFi will no longer connect if it’s not in the same room as our WiFi router.

    Oh ho ho, what a funny object it is.

    Of course, fortunately, our Kitchen is floodwired, so I just need to get a switch to live in the server room and it will well be networked. I will find it a use…other than doorstop.

  • Having gone to lots of hassle to make a new power supply for the ‘SuperPad’ Android Tablet* I discovered the fault was not with the wallwart but with the connector. So I ‘fixed’ the connector. Which worked for a while, but now it’s snapped somewhat more terminally** so I went looking for the obscure and difficult-to-get-hold of size of connector that it is.

    And have now ended up buying a new damn power supply because it’s a stupid size of connector that’s obscure and costs more to buy as a part than it does to just buy the supply.

    Feh.

    * If anything in the history of technology is less aptly named, I’m yet to find it.

    ** Geddit? Terminal. Connector. No? Just me then.