I'll recap.
Sunday (Mothers Day, 3rd April 2011) first... The day started poorly, what with the dead network card. I enjoyed scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast while Melissa had "chuckie egg" which is basically scrambled egg and soldiers but I'm not allowed to call it that.
After breakfast I turned my computer off and on again a few times, tinkered with settings, uninstalled and reinstalled drivers but none of this worked. I then dug out an old wifi network card I had lying about and put that in. Different error message, but still no wifi connectivity. At this point I resigned myself to a day spent cut off from the rest of the world and went to play some CODBO online. I got halfway through one game and it kicked us all out saying "connection lost to host" so I opted for the one of the offline subgames, Zombies. It's a lot of fun and quite challenging, but after an hour I got bored, so I kicked back in my bean bag with a can of Rockstar Revive and put on the Depeche Mode 'Devotional' DVD and played some Angry Birds Rio. Luxury.
At about half 3 my parents turned up, we had a few cuppas and headed up to the in laws, and then off to The Star Inn at Roby Mill for a lovely Mothers Day luncheon. Excellent food and a lovely place with lovely people.
After giving my mother and father a tour of the lesser known (and less salubrious) parts of Skelmersdale they dropped us home and Melissa and I watched How To Train Your Dragon which was excellent.
Monday 4th April - Back to work. I applied quite a bit of the knowledge I'd gained on my course today, and had some lunch. I applied some more knowledge and we left work and headed to St Helens for a new network adapter. £20 from PC World. It's a USB dongle-type device.
Once that had been procured we went into The Bath Store to have a browse and were pounced on by one of the pushiest salestwats I've ever had the displeasure of talking to. We had trouble leaving he was so pushy. He wouldn't take 'no' for an answer, which would be fine at a market stall and he was trying to sell us an extra banana but it's a slightly different kettle of fish when he's getting you to put down a cash deposit, or talk you through finance deals on a £1500 bathroom suite that you have no idea whether or not it will fit in your bathroom. Twat.
After that we went to Frankie and Benny's to take advantage of the 2 for £10 meal deal, and the 25% off "Monday Madness" deal. Yes, I know, diet and exercise start Wednesday (Tuesday isn't good for me).
Came home to install the USB wifi dongle, turned my PC on to find my wireless working flawlessly, on the card that I was convinced was broken. Minor rage. Nice to have a spare, but I'd have preferred the £20.
This evening I will play CODBO and perhaps watch one of the several Time Team episodes I have backed up on the Sky+ box.
I feel obliged to give you a photo given the length of this boring tosh so here's a of the Chinook that was laying siege to the Concourse at lunchtime today.
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| Get to da choppah! |
See you tomorrow!
