Sort of a Snow Day…
Posted by Fyse on Thursday, 25 January 2007
I guess there are two necessary constituents of a bone fide Snow Day. One is obviously some snow, and we had a bit of that. Staring out of the window this morning it took me a while to twig that everything looked a whole lot whiter than normal. The other vital ingredient is a lack of work, and this was achieved by a day long power cut. I initially I assumed it was something to do with the snow (in England even half an inch grinds things to a halt), but it turns out workers on an adjacent construction site drilled through a major power cable. Correlation without causation, then, so probably doesn’t really qualify as a ‘Snow Day’.
My initial ‘wow, the whole buildings dark’ reaction soon turned into ‘dammit I have work to do and it’s all on my computer’. Oh, for the days when that would have been a good thing. I picked up a few papers to read at home, but there wasn’t really a lot I could usefully do. Thus an afternoon catching up on downloaded TV. Bit of ‘Numb3rs’, lot of ‘Desperate Housewives’. A half-arsed attempt to start writing a presentation I’m meant to be giving soon (tricky without any of the relevant data or graphs), followed by a touch of ‘Prison Break’. I defy anyone to say that wasn’t a constructive day…
Glad your back. And it’s a small world. I just got a new MacBook too. Have to say that I hate the magnetic power cord. Since I use my laptop on MY LAP, the damn thing keeps popping out. But I like the low set keys on the keyboard.
Anyway, looking forward to more regular posts from you in 2007! Will third person Fyse be making periodic appearances this year?
I haven’t had a problem with the power cord popping out, but I’m generally using it at a desk plugged in, or on my lap unplugged. Of course, one way of looking at it is that for every time the magnetic plug pops out you’ve avoided potential damage to the power socket from a standard cable. (I’ve had a couple of friends who’ve ended up having to take a soldering iron to theirs.)
On the subject of more regular posts, I appear to have chosen a very bad time to restart blogging. I’m ridiculously busy, with full days at work followed by five hour rehearsals. Life was simpler as a student who could spend all day in bed…