Again??

What is it with weekends and my net connection - once more, I've seem faster corpses.

I can't even sustain a connection long enough to run a speed test.

Grrrr.

You grumpy lot!

Updates have been delayed by such petty things as food, sleep and me being lazy. All perfectly valid excuses.

About the weekend - it was fun. Immense fun.

We went from fear of attack to imminent attack. We hoped and stood ready.

We planned and talked. We dragged Justice down and blinded him. We did more damage to Justice then I believed could be done to a closet immortal.

We rampaged through Havockstan with a simple cry.

No peace in the war!

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Am I going back?

Oh yes.

Normal Service Part 2

I will do a real post tomorrow.

But over the weekend I did 148.7 miles.
I used 9.61 liters of fuel.

That's 70.34 miles to the gallon. In bank holiday traffic, both ways.

I'm actualy rather proud of this.

Normal Service

Normal service will resume shortly after my weekend away. Details will be forthcoming.

However - it has to be said.

No peace in the war!

What a way to ruin a day

In my time I've seen a lot of computer errors.

Dead hard drives. That smell of burning plastic. I've even seen sparks flying.

There are two things I fear the most. The hard drive that departs this world for the next carrying 100gb of my data with it. For this can cause unheralded misery - can I get my photos back? When did I back it up last?

The other is a completely different form of panic.

You've arranged to meet someone online. You've got a raid planned. An email to write. Something that must be done, NOW, online. And it fails.

You run though all the usual fixes, trying to breath life into the shattered web. Renew the IPs. Check the cabling. Reboot this. Tweak that.

And all you get is this...



Meet my sunday.

Head and shoulders

I was shopping on Saturday and was forced to my more shampoo.

Mainly because I use it on occasion - and we all seem to have a different one. And it's empty.

So there I am, pottering about the shampoo, hair dye and conditioner bit of the supermarket. Almost an isle full - and I can't find what I'm after.

I can't find it because the brand isn't there. It's head and shoulders - everywhere sells it.

Nor is it concealed among others. It's right there in front of me.

I can't find what I want because of the choice. There's a few choices.

-Mint
-Conditioning
-Dry hair
-Ocean lift(?)
-Smooth and silky
-Coloured
-Extra volume
-Citrus
-"Classic"
-For men
-Refresh
-Sensitive

I'm quite sure I missed some. Now, what do I buy?

Conditioner? (Does it matter?)
Mint? (Smells nice at least)
Colour? (I don't dye my hair - that's easy, no)
Extra volume (Good god no, my hairs bad enough as it is)
Sensitive? (Umm.....probably not)
Dry? (Only if it's for my sense of humour)
For men? (Hold it, are ALL the rest of the brands for women??)

I settled for conditioner. But only because it was on offer.

So - does it actually matter? At all?!?
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Edit to add:

And they've changed the shape of the bottle. So if you're essentially blind in the shower (like me) I now have to go looking for it - rather then just know what it looks like. Blue blob on white.

A new face

One of the lovely things about blogging and the internet is that you might find something completely Different. You look for one thing and find the reverse.

Searching for certain childrens cartoon characters - you exoect Disney and get - well, I can't possibly mention in polite company.

On WoW addiction, you find lots - broken lives, dirges and songs of sadness. But that's not all you can find. You can also find something like this tale of hope.

A few quotes...

"At family meals, I had no idea what they were talking about; I didn’t even understand the language they used. We had grown apart and the gap was widening."

"The solution was thought up by my younger son, who hit upon the idea of getting me, his mother, to play WOW. I was reluctant to say the least; I simply didn’t see the attraction, it was an alien world, I didn’t ‘do’ gaming."

"After 3 months of playing, my older son was married..... Several of the wedding guests introduced themselves by their online character names in the receiving line (bizarre).... They were sworn to secrecy in case the bride's mother found out, she might not have understood..."

I could go on and selectively quote the whole thing - but it deserves much better then that. Go on over and read it. It's her first blog post and everything - so give her some support.

She's made the first step into the wider world.

The next step...the hardest step....the second post...

This test awaits her.