Sleepypete's Pillow

Lol – it’s a poor, neglected old thing this laptop but it’s still chugging along 🙂

The screen, trackpad, cd drive and a few other things are having problems on it but the thing that needs the reboot is its reluctance to play games after a while … It’ll just automatically minimise the window that has the game in it when you try to switch to the game.

Bit like it saying “Nooo – I’m tired, use your big powerful desktop for those games that make me hot and bothered” 🙂

Dropped by from Michele’s tonight…I had to laugh when you wrote about your laptop having “issues”. Sounds like every other computer I’ve ever used 🙂

Just finished a session on Eve, where I was hoping to get some sleep in doing a bit of mining. That means, one computer, one screen and one job to do.

Doh ! Had to fire up my second Eve account as well so I could help with getting what we mined back to base again … So that’s :

Getting the Eve game on to this laptop,
Rebooting this laptop so it’ll play nicely (laptop has issues …)
Dodging from desktop screen to laptop screen doing two different jobs.
Crossing fingers and hoping the police polish off the pirate who tried to blow up my very expensive mining ship.

It wipes me out rather quickly playing the game on the two computers, so I’m going to fall asleep in front of the cricket. Hopefully England will pick up from where they are at the moment, they’ve started as badly as you can start in a game …

TBB – lol, you can only see a small portion of my “garden” … The bit to the lower left is my neighbour’s, the bit behind belongs to the people that run the Chinese takeaway.

Dianne – dunno how long that chair’s been there, I don’t remember not seeing it and I’ve lived here for 6 years !

Is that his chair or can anyone sit and enjoy?

They can smell you before they see or hear you.

Looks like you have put in a lot of work on your garden. 🙂

Wordless Wednesday is Chronos the Cat … Who also provides evidence that cats have a sixth sense for when they’re being watched. He was quite happily asleep until I quietly opened my upstairs window to take this shot.

Definitely has an appreciation for comfort does Chronos.

Crossing my fingers – it’s been lit for a day now 🙂

Ugh, broken boilers suck. I had that issue with my ex back when I lived in the UK. Our landlord was a cheapskate and refused to get someone qualified to fix it. Instead he got his buddy to do it.

Such a shame it cost him double the price to get it replaced after his buddy screwed it up completely. NOT.

Bit of a nasty surprise the other day – I found out why I’d been developing cold tootsies … Broken boiler again. Last time, it needed the thermocouple (widget wot tells it the temperature inside) replacing because it had totally burned away. This time, I can get it lit and it’ll work for a little while and then the pilot light will go out again. I just heard it fire up, which is a good sign, it means the boiler has been alive for the 90 minutes that I’ve been home for. I think it may be last week’s replaced gas meter that’s done it, as the boiler’s been fine through the winter.

Hoping it stays lit, as we have snow forecast in the UK this coming weekend, although that’s the East side of the country and not the side I live on. Still, it’ll be cheaper on gas if I have to run without a boiler for a bit although I prefer my showers to be hot instead of icicle temperature.

I now have Hornblower on, I missed this the first time around. It has a good reputation but it’s only now that I’ve had the chance to watch it from the start. David Weber’s Honor Harrington books are supposedly follow on from the Hornblower tradition, so let’s see if the Horatio Hornblower tradition is better than the Honor Harrington one 🙂