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especially not when three of the cats have established themselves on our bed for the night, and then another two turn up looking for space.
Yesterday Marcia wasn't sounding at all well, so I took off at lunchtime, figuring that if we were going over to the nearest emergency room (at Huntingdon), then it was better to get started in the afternoon rather than mid-evening.
As it was, she was feeling better and has got an appointment for Friday afternoon to discuss the results of last Wednesday's MRI. Not that the notes have been typed up yet, of course... Grump grump.
So we finished off backing up Marcia's old machine. Though the CD-writer we put in a while back was playing up, there turned out to be little enough that we could do it via floppy.
So I took the CDRW drive down to my library to install into my machine, which had rather more un-backed-up data on it than I liked and was misbehaving as well. Install. Boot. Sorry, two masters on one IDE chain. Shut down. Extract, move jumper, reinstall. Boot. Motherboard fries itself. Oh well, I was thinking of getting a new machine anyway. So the base unit is down at Ely Computer Suppplies for the disk to be copied into the new base unit, which should be ready later today. Assuming that the drive is readable, of course... fret fret.
Oh well. At least taking a half day to pick it up means I should have time to watch last night's Red Sox-Athletics game, which was on NASN overnight.
Yesterday Marcia wasn't sounding at all well, so I took off at lunchtime, figuring that if we were going over to the nearest emergency room (at Huntingdon), then it was better to get started in the afternoon rather than mid-evening.
As it was, she was feeling better and has got an appointment for Friday afternoon to discuss the results of last Wednesday's MRI. Not that the notes have been typed up yet, of course... Grump grump.
So we finished off backing up Marcia's old machine. Though the CD-writer we put in a while back was playing up, there turned out to be little enough that we could do it via floppy.
So I took the CDRW drive down to my library to install into my machine, which had rather more un-backed-up data on it than I liked and was misbehaving as well. Install. Boot. Sorry, two masters on one IDE chain. Shut down. Extract, move jumper, reinstall. Boot. Motherboard fries itself. Oh well, I was thinking of getting a new machine anyway. So the base unit is down at Ely Computer Suppplies for the disk to be copied into the new base unit, which should be ready later today. Assuming that the drive is readable, of course... fret fret.
Oh well. At least taking a half day to pick it up means I should have time to watch last night's Red Sox-Athletics game, which was on NASN overnight.