A funny sort of day
Apr. 14th, 2020 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustIt's been an odd, fragmentary sort of day, and I don't quite know where it's gone.
Yesterday was odd in the opposite way, because I know exactly where it went: we spent much of the day at the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival, sitting in our front room enjoyong performers playing in their own front rooms (many of which were impressively tidy). Which was fun.
But today: well, I woke late, despite having slept well. My watch is also running slow, and I fear its battery may be dying - but there's nothing I can do about that until the market reopens. Over breakfast, we made one last attempt on the Saturday crossword, and then called in the heavy artillery - that is, we telephoned theboybear who confirmed the clues we had half-solved, and filled in the remaining gaps. So by the time I had set some bread dough working (there will be rolls with soup for tomorrow's lunch) and hung out the laundry, it was almost lunchtime when I tried to turn on my computer.
It wouldn't turn on. I'll spare you the details of the problems, the deliberations, the phone call to the computer shop (closed, but accepting repairs): eventuallydurham_rambler spotted that the external drive had been left plugged in after the weekend's backup. This shouldn't block startup, but I have observed in the past that it does. I've spent the afternoon at the kitchen table with my notebook; it too had to be coaxed, because the battery was so flat it had to be charged for a quarter hour before it would even consent to work while plugged in - serves me right for not recharging it, which I knew needed to be done!
While I was here, I have experimented with listening to the Folk on Foot podcast, which I'd call a partial success. We persuaded the notebook to Bluetooth to the kitchen record player, so that's good, and I enjoyed the podcast, too (I listened to Matthew Bannister's interview with the Young'Uns in Hartlepool), but the sound kept dropping out - sometimes, but not always, because the computer had gone to sleep.
Random note: the bread is all white flour, and it is very, very sticky. These two facts are not necessarily causally related. Time will tell.
Yesterday was odd in the opposite way, because I know exactly where it went: we spent much of the day at the Folk on Foot Front Room Festival, sitting in our front room enjoyong performers playing in their own front rooms (many of which were impressively tidy). Which was fun.
But today: well, I woke late, despite having slept well. My watch is also running slow, and I fear its battery may be dying - but there's nothing I can do about that until the market reopens. Over breakfast, we made one last attempt on the Saturday crossword, and then called in the heavy artillery - that is, we telephoned the
boybear who confirmed the clues we had half-solved, and filled in the remaining gaps. So by the time I had set some bread dough working (there will be rolls with soup for tomorrow's lunch) and hung out the laundry, it was almost lunchtime when I tried to turn on my computer.It wouldn't turn on. I'll spare you the details of the problems, the deliberations, the phone call to the computer shop (closed, but accepting repairs): eventually
durham_rambler spotted that the external drive had been left plugged in after the weekend's backup. This shouldn't block startup, but I have observed in the past that it does. I've spent the afternoon at the kitchen table with my notebook; it too had to be coaxed, because the battery was so flat it had to be charged for a quarter hour before it would even consent to work while plugged in - serves me right for not recharging it, which I knew needed to be done!While I was here, I have experimented with listening to the Folk on Foot podcast, which I'd call a partial success. We persuaded the notebook to Bluetooth to the kitchen record player, so that's good, and I enjoyed the podcast, too (I listened to Matthew Bannister's interview with the Young'Uns in Hartlepool), but the sound kept dropping out - sometimes, but not always, because the computer had gone to sleep.
Random note: the bread is all white flour, and it is very, very sticky. These two facts are not necessarily causally related. Time will tell.
