I suppose you are all waiting with baited breath to hear how I'm getting with my expensive brick that used to be called a laptop?

No?

I thought not.

Herself at least is very anxious on my behalf, and it's nice to know that someone cares.  She is even insisting that I go out straight away and buy a new machine.  Seeing as I can't afford one we are rapidly approaching the old situation of an irresistible object hitting an immovable wall.  She insists on a new laptop and I insist I can fix this one.  I'm not sure how that's going to pan out. 

So far I have discovered a wee problem in the BIOS.  That's the thingy that's normally hidden behind the maker's screen.  I was taking around five minutes to get through what should have taken about two seconds. 

Fixed that.

Then it wouldn't connect to the hard drive but it wouldn't say why.

I have decided the drive is buggered.

Bugger!

There were some files on it that I was kind of hoping to keep.  Lots of old photographs and shit like that.

You are all going to say I should have kept backups?  I did.  That was my backup of another hard drive which has since been formatted.  I was due to copy them back.

It's a very strange thing but these couple of days are fucking jinxed where computers are concerned.  This time last year I was on holidays and an update fucked up Rambles until I got home again.  The year before, it was exactly the same.  I can't remember what happened exactly but I know something seriously broke.

Fuck it.

I'm going out to sit in the sun.