29th November 2001, 17:07
Sheesh, I’m knackered.
At the moment I just get tired really, really easily. I’ve spent the
afternoon, well, hrm, about 2 hours of the afternoon trying to tidy up the
study/computer room here. Just sort of scooping up rubbish and throwing it away
– and moving all the CD’s into a pile… You can kinda see part of the desk this
computer lives under now which is good. But that 2 hours has really taken it out
of me. I just feel very, very tired. Which makes me worry about going back to
work, hrm, in…[pause to check, yup, it is that close] 1 weeks time.
I mean, I’ve been sat at this computer all day, and yes, that hasn’t worn me
out – but I’ve got an hours drive there and an hours drive back…..that makes
me a bit nervous – especially in a car as heavy as the Cavalier.
*sigh* I wish the golf was still on the road, that’s nice and light to drive,
although parking is a bastard…. That’s the other thing that worries me –
things like parking and low speed manouvering, I’m not sure I’ve got the
strength for it yet.
Well, I guess I’ll find out.
Bah, no new e-mail for me. For whatever reason, since coming back I’ve not
had any particular desire to look at cartoons, there are a few which I normally
looked at. 3, I think. Alice, User Friendly and Dilbert. But I just can’t be
arsed at the moment. Perhaps it’s because I’ve got more important things on my
mind….
Things that have been stopping me sleeping recently. Well, that’s not true,
not stopping me sleeping completely; I sleep for an hour at a time, then wake
up, then there’s I dunno, 10, 20 minutes of hanging around, lying there – and
then I drift back to sleep.
Which may be another reason why I’m quite so tired.
So, anyway, in other news, I’ve been trying to get my webcam working
again….well, working for the first time in linux. My webcam is sadly one of these – meaning
that I have to attempt to persuade this driver
to compile. Fat chance.
So, it continues to sit, perched atop my monitor without a chance in hell of
working. Why Logitech won’t release the information about this camera christ
knows, it’s not like they have to support the driver. But Nooo. Bastards.
If they didn’t make such decent mice/keyboards I’d boycot them. Still last
webcam I buy from them. Sigh. The latest drivers even refused to work in
Windows, which was amusing. I guess it may have packed up, that’d be about right
for my hardware. Anyway, if anyone knows how to make this sodding driver
compile I’d be grateful for the info.
I’ve been slowly coming to the conclusion that my printer (a venerable
HP890c ‘Professional Series‘ printer) is never, ever going to work again.
Since HP said as much, essentially. So I’m thinking its time has come, time to
throw it away. *sigh* It’s only 4 years old, and its page count can’t be that
high. Christ, I think I only got through 3 colour cartridges in all that time.
Although I guess there’s been quite a lot of black and white printing. I
dunno.
Anyway. I guess it might as well go in the bin.
Hrm, probably time for the second bath of the day. Trying to get the
willpower for it, although right now I’d just like to go to sleep. That’d be
the nicest thing to do. *sigh* I appear to have caught a cold – which means I
can’t go and see my dad. At all. Until it’s completely gone. And with my immune
system’s reputation? *sigh*
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Kate E