Category Archives: computers

clean bookshelves!

12 Wednesday Sep 2007

Posted by in animals & pets, blogging, books, computers, home

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Every book dusted, every shelf cleaned. And this morning I painted the bit where the Jaguar’s monitor and the printer sit. And Nog even wiped off and organised all my old cassettes and put them back in their little cassette-holder thingy (behind the monitor). And even my desk is relatively tidy for a change. Anyhow, I thought I’d take a photo of this moment for posterity as I’m sure by the end of the week (if not by the end of the day) things will be all cluttered again.

And check out Sunny. That’s his little stool where he demands to sit next to the Alpha Cat while she wastes her life spends her time on sexy beast. He actually prefers to sit on my lap but then I can’t reach the keyboard. So our compromise is the stool, as long as I talk to him a lot and give him a cuddle about every thirty seconds.

summer holidays

01 Wednesday Aug 2007

Posted by in animals & pets, blogging, books & writing, computers, culture, films, food & drink, friends, fun stuff, health & happiness, holidays, home, humour, life stuff, love, miscellany, music, musings, philosophy, photos, sevilla, television

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It’s August 1st and I am officially ‘on holiday’.

No classes until September. Yay! Well okay, no income either, but I’ve been looking forward to this stretch of time ahead of me not having to be anywhere or do anything unless I feel like it. It will especially be nice not to be woken up by alarm clocks (well, other than the pointy-eared variety).

When I asked earlier about what summer stuff everyone was planning to do I still hadn’t made any major plans, and then I realised that what I wanted most was a month totally without plans. So there. 🙂

Well, there are a few things I want to do like go to the gym in the mornings and do some stuff around the apartment. But mostly I reckon I’ll be reading and hanging out online (hence that particular thumbnail), taking evening walks with Nog, going out for our *emergency cold beer and air-conditioning sessions* and the occasional tapa, and also watching films and playing with floppy cats who – I am very happy to report – appear to be friends again. They’ve even started playing fighting again, with no pee in sight, which to me is even more of a sign of them being pals again than falling asleep together.

For awhile it looked like a recent bad back incident (comment 19) had put the kibosh on my gym idea, but after a couple days of anti-inflammatories, gentle stretching and lots of walking I think I’ll be able to start back mañana.

Meanwhile, Sevilla has pretty much turned into a ghost town already, which is always a pleasant change of pace.

So all in all, August should be a nice month for carping the diem.

How’s your summer been so far?

new coolstand

23 Saturday Jun 2007

Posted by in computers, home, retail therapy

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So I bought one of these today …

As the weather heats up so do all the furniture surfaces here and I started to worry about the Sexy Beast getting overheated during the course of a long summer day. There were a few different types at Fnac, including one with a built-in fan, and I opted for the simplest model (it’s exactly like the one in the pic) thinking it should allow for enough extra air circulation between SB and the table for the internal fans to do their job properly.

But while I was googling for a thumbnail pic of my coolstand I discovered that there are tons of the kind with fans – like these. And so now I’m not sure if I should exchange the one I’ve got for a fan model.

Any advice?

sexy beast

15 Sunday Apr 2007

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Here she is … in all her undented glory!

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Unfortunately my eensy IKEA table doesn’t do her justice. But it makes it easy to keep the old desktop PC at hand and also to use a normal keyboard and mouse when I’m working. And of course, I can use her anywhere in the house at other times. I’m really glad the coin-flip turned out the way it did. Sure it was a bit of a hassle to wipe out all the programmes I’d installed, go back to the store and do the exchange and then reinstall everthing from scratch again.

On the other hand, there is a real pleasure having something so beautifully designed looking as it should.

And it does seem like this ‘spontaneous purchase’ happened at a good time as the ol’ Jag is acting weirder and weirder.

So let’s hope it’s an all’s well that ends well sorta thang . . .