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and today...

11/9/08 10:16 pm - and today...

one and a half inches of crunchy white crystals underfoot outside this morning after having bounced hard off the window & everywhere else for five minutes; that's some seriously strong winds coming in from the west, bringing those wintry showers, that is... i'm used to the wet & all that, what with this being the north-wet; but it never really got light here at all today...

finally discovered where i'd put the ibm pcdos 7 disk set, so i should be able to get a machine going as i-m-t-in-the-shop again after a week (or is it a fortnight now?) without; also a socket7 mother board, which it'll be interesting to see whether i can get the 5x86 chip into, in the box whose motherboard bios battery failed and isn't apparently replaceable - that'd be the best, if not necessarily the easiest way to do thnigs; and, failing that, see if it'll use the 486-dx2 chip out of the bloodystupidcompaq or dell boxes...

the shop? oh, the landlord stuck his head in the door again - he's worked out how to get the outside paint job done, without spending any of the money the insurance company gave him, to go away and get it done with: he's increased next door's rent, but is allowing them to get the gloss work on the front of the whole of the ground floor of the building done, and take it off their first increased installment. any bets on whether it'll be done before easter next year out there?

Current Music: ice - from the album "clear" by spirit

Current Mood:

lethargic

11/9/08 10:48 pm (UTC) - roobarb

*hugs*

good to hear from you

I may have some harddrives for you, though I need to check what's on them and if they work

11/10/08 11:35 pm (UTC) - feetnotes

*snugglehuggg*

i've the odd present or three for you, too; s'pose i could wrap them, and pretend they were got for this christmas coming, instead of some for christmas last...

11/11/08 06:56 am (UTC) - roobarb

I have the same

now when to meet up....

11/16/08 11:41 am (UTC) - feetnotes

well, i generally have sundays off; and i could steal a november monday - annd maybe even a tuesday morning - to go with it; but i should need a place to kip (and the dreadful duo of

kaiserdad'n'

kaiserdog would probably desire and require extraordinary rendition to ease their making their rounds roobarbwards, as well as around the hunter bar area, and return. taking in cups of coffee at a selection of their various girlfriendses, naturally enough, including at one cafe-restaurant particularly known to your own goodself).

but neither of the desperate duo has yet proven willing, or even able, to put up [with] yr hmbl srppnt; and, in the absence of an invitation from any other chapeltonian to visit, i must confess that i find myself entirely without accommodation for any prospective visit, alas.

[e-mail's rather easier for this, for me - isn't it also, for you?]

11/16/08 02:11 pm (UTC) - roobarb

Invitation is back open, I have space now, anuty moira here next weekend and I'm away weekend 13th Dececember and 6th so shout to book a slot

haven't emailed cos I wasn't sure what your email is at the moemnt

will ring in a bit, ok?

11/24/08 02:37 am (UTC) - feetnotes

roobarb (& big A) emailed at the last domain i can remember your saying worked, with a choice of working eaddresses, etc, for this ppint. - i trust one or t'other (or both) arrived ok.

(also suggesting what was then "sunday week", but is now "next sunday" - 30th - if that's not too short a warning. or would the new year be better for you?)

11/24/08 06:18 am (UTC) - roobarb

have replied, sometime yesterday evening, did you get it?

all set for next weekend

:D

11/27/08 09:40 pm (UTC) -

got the "test" ok in the shop; must remember to do thye three ellls thinge at home, too!

hope you've had - will have had, by the time you read this - a good night's sleep, and're ready to take on any & all of the dragons friday sends you!*

*bounce* -

feetnotes gets to see

roobarb saturday night again, after *ages* - entire iains!

i'll try not to be too late, turning up...

honest, guv...

and may they all be little ones

11/9/08 11:32 pm (UTC) - texasts

Oy! Good to "see" you!
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11/10/08 12:34 am (UTC) - kaiserdad

Was wondering about you yesterday, glad to know you are still alive :-)

11/16/08 11:54 am (UTC) - feetnotes

and lo, there was telephonic communication; and both were reassured - at least to the continued existence of a clever plastic replicant of the other, doubtless in at least one bearing the moulded impression, "empire made"...

11/10/08 07:15 am (UTC) - the_hunter

Yay!
I had begun to think that the Great North Wet had eated you all up!

11/16/08 12:23 pm (UTC) - feetnotes

no, no; the great north-wet is, by and large, benign; but it's been a poor year, in more senses than one. the economic impact of IMT's having been effectively forced closed from autumn, last year, through spring, this, are with me still.

meanwhile, what are the chances of the survival of civilisation like, back in bell green?

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