Frizz

OK that’s enough, I’ve been stuck in front of this computer all afternoon. I’m dragging myself out now to go and meet friends and be sociable, even though I’d be happy to stay in, I think I’m becoming quite boring.

I meant to say that I did end up going back to the Ortho to get rid of the poking wire. He drilled it, which took me by surprise. It was a tiny piece, but very sharp, so had managed to poke wholes in my gum and a couple of days in, it was all swollen. I stopped being silly and got the wax and salt out and was much better the next day. It’s all fine again now.

I can’t get over the title Snakes on a Plane - is it a metaphor, was someone trying to be clever? It should win an award, although I’m not sure if it would be best title of the year or worst.

P.S. I want my computer back-now!

A reminder that if you are in London on the 16-17 September it’s Open House weekend. I’ve had a look at the listings for this year and there are some interesting looking buildings open. Here’s where you need to go if you fancy volunteering, which gets you a queue jumping badge.

They have taken my computer away…. to replace the hard drive.

After very stressful post midnight and early morning attempts to book a spot at the Regents Street store, unsuccessfully, I managed to get one at the Brent Cross store (from where I am posting this). The guy decided it was my hard drive after my list of problems. Throughout our discussion I thought they were going to fix it while I waited (which did seem very impressive) until right at the end the guy said that’ll take 7-10 days and I nearly fell off the stool and went into shock. So I had to fork out £79 for ApplePro as I can’t wait that long and then pay another £35 for them to restore all my stuff, this is on top of AppleCare, so I am feeling a bit ripped off. Now it should take a few days, hopefully, as I jump to the top of the queue. With ApplePro you can get an hour a week tuition, so damn it, I’m going to make use of that! Also, you get a yearly service, which is quite good. I feel bereft.

Over 6000 miles of sea: Home and dry

Depending on who you read it is possible that 4 x 4 (SUV) sales are finally dropping…

I had the niece to stay over the weekend, I sort of had to kidnap her, or otherwise she was going to be home alone. So I was introduced to the whole (two) Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. We saw the second one in the cinema and the first the next day on DVD. The Johnny Depp thing seems to work better in memory than whilst watching, which perhaps explains that Oscar nomination. I quite enjoyed them though (I haven’t been to the cinema for a while), except for the half human half sea creatures in the second one, which made me very uncomfortable indeed. I think it was the whole something living inside sort of thing - anyway I wanted them to go away.

Well the lack of posts are still due to the wrist, but also now because I’ve been a bit busy and not near a computer and away a little (more of which when I’ve sorted things out - like being able to download the photos (see next sentence). Now I’m back to find my computer is having a perpetual kernel panic and I think I might join it. So it just about starts, has time to think a little and dies. I have Apple Care and I ring the number on the info pack only to get the answer that it is indeed an apple number, but it is no longer in use, with no alternative number given before it cuts out - so Apple (it’s that love/hate thing). So via a third party I call Apple Care and get a guy in India. The thing with call centres in India - that I find anyway - is that they may speak the same language in theory, but not in practice. There is much more of a gap than between English and American or that might just be because I’m used to American. It’s the whole way of using the language and speaking, it’s just much slower, so this guy, who was very nice considering my bad mood, took about three times as long to answer a question as someone here would, I mean he used whole sentences and nobody does that anymore - I could have gone and made a cup of tea and he would still be speaking. The upshot is that I have to take it to an Apple shop for them to have a look at it. I did do a backup before I went away, but I forgot to back up my pictures, however the guy in India assured me that for a price (that love/hate thing again), they will be able to save everything… and I was just about to make some CD’s for friends of recent photos I’ve taken.

The trailer for Marie Antoinette.