Scary
I have been away; away in the deeper, darker and generally murkier parts of my brain. It’s been tortuous. And fun.
I’ve also been battling demons. I say demons, actually I’ve been fighting the flying harbourers of doom. With my trusty spear and with tremendous courage, I’ve slayed many of the evil monsters.
OK, so wielding a slightly dusty mop, I’ve screamed and jumped around and pretty much flapped like a girl, and managed to squish a few crane flies. I absolutely hate them. I shall not be taking the piss out of anyone with phobias, whether the smallest spider makes them shriek or something a little more strange.
Clichés
- All terrorists are one dimensional characters, who scowl, or sneer at the good guys and any good intentions shown to them. Whilst the heroes have families and friends and truly grieve for their fallen comrades.
- Terrorists will carry their fancy, or not so fancy, bombs in canvas holdalls.
- And usually dress as some sort of workmen. Beware the boiler-suited men carrying large cloth-type bags!
- All bombs will have a timer, probably digital, thus allowing the audience to see how much peril the characters are in.
- And it will beep as each second passes. Although no one passing this bomb will hear the beeping.
- The timer will have a display so simple even the greatest technophobe could deal with it.
- The terrorists will conveniently leave their laptop, usually the device displaying the timer, near the explosives.
- If no code is needed (perhaps terrorists aren't that desperate yet) then all that needs to be done is to cut a wire or two.
- If the bomb requires a code to disarm it, it won't be a collection of random numbers and letters. Nor will you have to turn Caps Lock on or off during the input of the code. Terrorists are so slack on their security.
- The code will be cracked, if not alphanumeric gobbledygook (highly unlikely, see point above) by an expert, probably a professor, that the heroes have dragged into the case. This expert is likely to be helping against his or her will.
- The mole amongst the heroes will have been on screen within the first 5 (or so) minutes. You won't have paid any attention to them. But you may have suspected that the new maverick, or female or bossy -type character is the one leaking the vital information to the bad guys.
Three guesses as to what I watched last night. No prize will be awarded for the sucessful guesser.
Bowling tonight. How I manage to get into that, I don't know.
(I will write up about the bloomin' wedding soon. With piccies. I promise. Permission to flog me for failing to keep this promise is given………….now!)
I’ve done it again!
You would have thought I might have learnt my lesson by now. But it seems not. Every so often I get the urge to install some version or other of Linux onto a computer, and every time it doesn't work.
This time I've tried to create a partition and install Mandrake on the laptop. But due to the manufacturer 's perferred recovery system – they put a partition right at the front of the drive to store the recovery software – I'm now totally stuck. Neither Windows nor Linux will load, it keeps going round and round on the recovery, and not being able to do a system restore. I have no seperate recovery disk either. I'm trying to reinstall Mandrake at the mo, but it seems to have gotten stuck too. (Retrying now).
I'm now wondering if the reload cd I have for the big pc will work. Just to have a working laptop would be nice!
Time to drum it into myself – stay away from Linux!
16: 40 – Wow Update: I sent an email to the manufacturer at 4.10; I get a reply at 4.29. They can supply a image cd to restore the laptop to factory settings. Danny Baxter is to be praised from very tall buildings – I will not hear a bad word said against him. [And should he ever Google his name…. Hi! 🙂 and thank you very much.] Fine with me. Am I correct in thinking that'll totally format the entire drive? Who can spot the computer dunce? Wishing I had computer geeky friends, of the internet sort or otherwise!
16:50 Update: Mandrake loads to a point. It stops responding to the keyboard when it askes for my user password. The reload cd isn't compatible with the laptop, but I'm sure someone already knew that. Looks like I'm buggered till Mr Baxter responds to my email, and I recieve the cd in the post, and I wonder how long that will take. *sob* laptopless! How am I going to console myself?
Nothing (much) To Report 