Laggy jets
May. 22nd, 2011 06:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI am compiling a list of my failures. Mostly it features things left behind, most of which are too embarrassing to confess to (Karen's marmalade!); to it this morning we can add the fact that I left my desktop on. Which means that it continues to download my email and then delete it from the server, so's I have no contact with the world.
I am kind of hoping my web guru![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler can disable something from his end; otherwise I will ask a cat-feeder to disable the machine in situ. With a cricket bat, if that's what it takes.
In other news, am in California. I revised 200-and-some pages on Friday and sent the novel off; that made it midnight, or thereabouts. Four hours in bed and I was up again, slowly and carefully forgetting to pack many important things. At 6am, I spoke to Karen. Then I left the house (don't tell Karen, but yes: I did manage to forget my carry-on bag, which means my passport, my teddy bear, many important things; fortunately I only got ten yards down the street before I realised and went back) and travelled for twenty-three and a half hours, and then I spoke to Karen again only in person. And she brought me home, and I had a shower and kind of collapsed a bit (a glass of wine and a handful of gorgeous cherries: is this a supper? Saying no to a second glass of wine: is this a Chaz?) and we went to bed. And I slept on and off, in and out; but then of course it was 5am and I was wide awake, so here I am. Finding that I have no email, and thinking I would post instead, and remembering that there would be an Issue with LJ if I didn't alter the time/date settings on the laptop, so trying to do that and finding that the new install of Ubuntu just wouldn't let me, and trying various clever geeky ways to compel it until eventually I found a workaround that worked ("killall indicator-datetime-preferences", since you ask), so yup. My computer is on California time, even if I'm not.
Actually, spending an hour being mildly irritated with Ubuntu and cruising forums and so forth is no bad way to spend some fairly-dead time, while I wait for all this caffeine to kick in. And it's better than being deeply irritated with myself for my own manifest stupidities (I had a list in my head, I've had it there for weeks, Things To Remember: and turning off the desktop was pretty much no 1 on that list, and Karen's marmalade was severely jostling it for space at the top, and that's not even to mention the really embarrassing and utterly irreplaceable forgettees...).
I am kind of hoping my web guru
durham_rambler can disable something from his end; otherwise I will ask a cat-feeder to disable the machine in situ. With a cricket bat, if that's what it takes.In other news, am in California. I revised 200-and-some pages on Friday and sent the novel off; that made it midnight, or thereabouts. Four hours in bed and I was up again, slowly and carefully forgetting to pack many important things. At 6am, I spoke to Karen. Then I left the house (don't tell Karen, but yes: I did manage to forget my carry-on bag, which means my passport, my teddy bear, many important things; fortunately I only got ten yards down the street before I realised and went back) and travelled for twenty-three and a half hours, and then I spoke to Karen again only in person. And she brought me home, and I had a shower and kind of collapsed a bit (a glass of wine and a handful of gorgeous cherries: is this a supper? Saying no to a second glass of wine: is this a Chaz?) and we went to bed. And I slept on and off, in and out; but then of course it was 5am and I was wide awake, so here I am. Finding that I have no email, and thinking I would post instead, and remembering that there would be an Issue with LJ if I didn't alter the time/date settings on the laptop, so trying to do that and finding that the new install of Ubuntu just wouldn't let me, and trying various clever geeky ways to compel it until eventually I found a workaround that worked ("killall indicator-datetime-preferences", since you ask), so yup. My computer is on California time, even if I'm not.
Actually, spending an hour being mildly irritated with Ubuntu and cruising forums and so forth is no bad way to spend some fairly-dead time, while I wait for all this caffeine to kick in. And it's better than being deeply irritated with myself for my own manifest stupidities (I had a list in my head, I've had it there for weeks, Things To Remember: and turning off the desktop was pretty much no 1 on that list, and Karen's marmalade was severely jostling it for space at the top, and that's not even to mention the really embarrassing and utterly irreplaceable forgettees...).