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/0611/2002 Archived Entry: "Wet morning"

It's wet this morning. And windy. And I've discovered that my brolly doesn't have any sort of force field to keep the rain away from my lower extremities. I have damp knees. Which is not great. It could be worse, they could be really wet. It just feels a bit chilly, really. They'll dry soon enough, it's fairly warm in here.

And my computer is back up. Roger spent ages (far too long, really - for which I am extremely grateful) last night searching the web on my behalf and eventually came up with an answer, which the HP helpdesk also did this morning, but a lot less efficiently and without the pleasantness that comes of talking to your friends. Even if this conversation seemed to consist mainly of long silences punctuated with 'ah yes, how about...' Once I'd persuaded the PC that it did have an Operating System, honest, I had to get it back to the position it was basically in - although with probably less software that I don't use on it - the day before. This wasn't too much of a problem, some programmes had been deleted (most notably Office - which I had to reinstall twice before it worked properly. Which was annoying) whilst others hadn't. It looks like all my files are still there, so I don't have the hassle of copying them from disk, so that's good. The biggest problem was remembering my email logon and password. Neither of which were obvious and only one of which I had a note. Eventually I remembered though. The whole operation (so far - it's not quite complete, I have to reinstall the Service Pack thingy. Thank God I bought a CD Rom of that. Trying to download it from the net again would have been a complete pain in the arse.) took about three hours. Which wouldn't have been a problem had I started it 7.00. However, I didn't start it until about 10.30. So I'm a little tired this morning.

This afternoon, I'm going to see Roger (from work, not friend Roger...) talk to a bunch of Brewers about the right way to write an exam question. That should be exciting...