John's Space

Monday I cooked dinner and we had a pair of friends over ... with their two young kids (the baby didn't cause any noise so she doesn't get mentioned ;-) It was a good excuse to have ice cream for desert. I did just enough baked battered shrimp and chicken fingers (i.e., just enough left over for my lunch today) though I did forget the cocnut shavings on the counter the kids didn't mind. They even ate one or two of the glazed baby carrots; which had to steam for about an hour to get soft, much to my dismay. However, I did way more macaroni and cheese than needed. When my family used to eat it for dinner (tuna caserole) we would do a 'family size' box so I doubled it for last night adn, though we admittedly had fewer people than I expected, theres still over half of it in the fridge.

 

We got in to work early today; Suzanne was up admirably early though she didn't quite make 5:30am like she originally planed. Worked through - answering emails and prepping for tomorrow, paid some bills and minuted a meeting then got spare keys cut to start replacing the set we (Suzanne) lost a couple fo weeks ago. When Suzanne comes home we may go to the Cinema: Journey to the Centre of the Earth in 2D.

We're back from Los Angeles and my computer is back in the hutch (the repair shop couldn't find anything wrong with the drives or power pack and couldn't replicate the crash we got that sent it in). However, the external HD still doesn't work through the USB so I'm dreading what'll happen when I turn on the printer. I know, maybe I'll leave that for Suzanne.

 

Here's a picture of us somewhere in Los Angeles. I guess since we're back now I shoudl really post up a picture of us here in Cayman but as I have the camera there are few pictures with me in teh frame.

Yesterday (day off) I took my computer back to the repair shop. It was crashign with a cluncking noise. They hadn't hada chance to look at it when I checked back this afternoon. Why back to the same store? Well, store A, where I had the motherboard replaced a while ago and they ended up also downgrading Windows during the reinstall is now out of bussiness. Store B had suggested the problem with the USB ports was rust (not a wrong diagnosis but not right for all the ports). Store C at least got the printer working for a while (untill the computer crashed). Plus they didn't ask for a deposit this secod time. Also they're relaitvely close to home. However, I probably wnt be posting for a while. Computers aren't supposed to make clunking noises unless they're playing games. - Maybe thats it, my computer is playing games with me.

I got the computer back this evening and the scanner now seems to work. However, we have no paper so the printing that Suzanne wanted to do tonight probably still wont get done. Such is as such is.

Well, I got some of the work done today. Once again I underestimate how long its going to take to accomplish something. Rather worying wince I quoted someone that it would take 60 minutes to do a job that should take us 30 minutes to accomplish. We'll see how long it really takes when we do the job next year.

 

Supper is in the toaster oven now (plus a bunch of leftover side dishes on teh counter). I forgot to bring the shopping bags and list when I left home this morning so I'll need to go back out tonight (or leave it untill Friday when I'm off on a long weekend). However, I did collect the mail and get my hair cut so it was still a personally productive day.

 

I wonder if I should be worried that MS-Spaces keeps putting up banner adds for singles clubs whenever I log on? ;-)