loadfail

A few errors of things to load to things they should have loaded to means I shall have to pop into work tomorrow morning, though only for the morning and I was intending to be in the town centre at lunchtime anyway. If things continue to fail to load tomorrow morning then it would be pleasant if they just had to wait and not be tested for another seven working days but they'll probably just be checked from home at some point this week.

The back end of yesterday evening was mostly spent prodding at Nicky's laptop to see if there was any way of persuading it to be a bit less knackered without having to resort to buying a USB HDD dock and fishing the bits we need to keep of the operating system's partition so that it can be restored to factory defaults. A fortunate side-effect of finally getting a decent excuse to get an HDD dock is that I can now use the various old smallish 3.5" IDE HDDs I have sitting about in various boxes as extra storage for spacious things like music and downloaded telly and can buy normal unenclosed HDDs as a backup-storage medium, probably saving the cost of the dock with the first terabyte. An unfortunate side-effect of reinstallation is the inevitable need to reinstall everything else but at least the fault occurred close to a few days of not being at work.

Although I was down at Canonmills in the morning where the presence of huge clouds of flying ants is usually plainly visible there didn't appear about by half past one, though I was perhaps distracted by the sheer burning horror of the sun at that time of day, especially when there was a hill and some city centre lunchtime traffic delaying me from reaching the comparative safety of the other office until the evening. I hadn't bothered with my sunglasses for the short trip from the office to Maplin and hadn't yet realised it was now officially Flying Ant Day and picked up a couple of flying ants in the eye as a result, though they're big enough to be easily wiped or blinked out, unlike thunderbugs. Going back via Granton rather than sticking to the ant-friendly cycle path seemed to be a good plan even though I was wearing sunglasses by this point as sunglasses don't do much to stop flying ants getting into the mouth and nostrils.