I is having a bad day
OK, so I'm not in agony, nor has something "very bad" happened to someone I know, it's just been one slightly shitting moment to the next since I got up. Actually it started before I even got up. To say I slept last night would be a big fat lie. There was non-sleep, with much tossing and turning. Feeling totally un-refreshed and quite grumpy, I arose with a pounding headache. Oh, the joy.
A slightly positive note, the wireless keyboard/mouse combo that I'd bought via eBay was sat on the table, instead of a little note from the courier saying "Sorry, we couldn't deliver this. You were out"; which is subtext for: "We knocked very quietly and then we didn't/couldn't wait long enough for anyone to answer the door."
With one strong mug of coffee in hand I decided to tackle the installation of the new input devices. In my eagerness, I didn't pay as close attention to the instructions as perhaps I should have. Batteries all in place, USB cable plugged in (I need a USB hub!), drivers installed, neither bit of kit works. Bumflaps. Reboot the pc, keyboard works, mouse works for 5 seconds then nothing. Arse biscuits. After another 10 or so minutes of restarting and checking cables/batteries, a sudden thought creeps into view in my tired brain. The batteries in the mouse are rechargeable, thus they need charging up BEFORE use. D'oh! My only defense is that I am knackered.
So the new joy of a keyboard that isn't constricted about where I put it on the desk, (or my lap!) has been marred by that fact that my external hard drive, containing all my music, has ceased being recognized by the pc. Mightly arse biscuiting-bumflaps.
I'm borrowing some of the 300GB hard drive my brother recently added to his own pc to try to restore matters. But the last hour of copying the entire contents of the external HD may have been in vain as I've just remembered that the only way I solved this problem before was to re-install Windows. (I can't even type what I'm now uttering!)
Tomorrow's scheduled delivery will be occurring between the hours of nine am and five pm. I can't wait for the joyous sobbing that will bring. But will it be due to great happiness, or total about-to-throw-this-heap-of-junk-out-of-the-window despair.
