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Accidental Productivity, and Psion failures

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Today I was unintentionally more productive than I intended to be. I’d not intended to be productive, well, maybe a little productive, but it got…

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Another upgrade, and another fix, and endless errands

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Yesterday was a solid day of progress on things. In fact, in general, there’s been a lot of progress on things. We’ve been working on…

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Upgrade and Fix

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So today was a bit of a mission. I’d iiiintended to be back by lunchtime from a quick errand – namely, getting my glasses, grabbing…

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Horror Show: Resurrection

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So, having replaced all the capacitors, today was the day for reassembly. In a hilarious misjudgement I thought I’d do it before lunch, and then…

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Horror Show: Restoration (plus bonus new toys)

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So I spent today (literally nearly all of today, although I was kinda slow to get going) working on the A4. Having cleaned up the…

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back to blighty and back home

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So I headed over to the UK for my mum’s 80th birthday. It’s the least complicated trip over to the UK that are done for…

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Project(ed) Progress

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We’ve been making slow but steady progress on the many, many projects ongoing here at chez us. Having let the oiled pieces off-gas in the…

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Horror Show: Acid Bath

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So I finally got myself together enough to tackle stripping down the Acorn A4 laptop. I’d been somewhat nervous about it because of all the…

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The impacts of earlier decisions

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So, I think mainly I decided for the sake of – lots of things really – that we should drywall the garage – and just…

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Shelfmagic and Trimtastic

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So it being my long-work week last week I entered Sunday needing…something. My shifts had been somewhere between horrendous and atrocious, (every. single. day.) and…