Snatches-of-Bliss-and-Are-You-Freaking-Out-Yet?

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* Welcome *

Changed da house,
Changed da look.

BTW, my bathrobe's usually pink
and we don't have a fireplace.
Other than that,
it's pretty accurate...

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Sunday, April 24, 2005

~ This Anzac Long Weekend Blows ~

So the computer decided to get obsessive-compulsive on 1 miserable Windows Update file, thereby rendering itself totally useless. We spent Saturday reformatting the C Drive (oh joy), but not before panicking that the hard drive had just given up and gone home. Major grumps emanated from the husband for sure. Having crashed many PCs in days of yore, I was more resigned to the fact that I had to spend time prettifying my settings again.

We then spent the better part of today making it look as normal as possible - an interesting feat mind you, considering XP has managed to change ALL the fonts plastered on file names / folders / taskbars / younammit to something BEEG and SERIF. And we have no idea how to change it back, without switching to Windows Classic View. We can only make the darn fonts BIGGER or tinier and we're too tired now to plough through the most unhelpful Help and Support option that Microsoft had so graciously supplied us.

So in an act of total rebellion (and just so I could get RSS feeds with a new mail browser), I downloaded Mozilla's Thunderbird AND Firefox. Take that, stoopid Microsoft.

We are totally knackered and are almost declaring this Long Weekend a dud of sorts. It's ANZAC day tomorrow, and aside from WW1 veterans talking on TV about how the Turks and Australian trenches were only this much apart... and the Grand Prix... there really isn't much on telly.

This spate of bad TV and sports will continue tomorrow, because it's Australian television - secretly renowned the world over to be Quite Bad Most Times. (I've counted the number of Cop shows on just two channels: 9, without looking at the TV guide.)

First, there's gonna be a huge coverage of the 90th anniversary at Gallipoli held at the War Memorial in Canberra, interspersed with bad ads on mattresses and barbecues going for $99.99. After that, there's gonna be the Footy. Yes, you aren't truly a patriot of Australia unless you watch the Footy.

Hmm, let's see: War... Football... Sports Cars going round and round in circles. ANZAC day is a BOY'S Holiday, danggit!

Apart from the Zucchini Slice that still has one last helping in the 'fridge, I can't say I feel I've accomplished much this week.

# posted by Velle | 11:22 pm

1 Comments:

HEY!

I know what you mean

By Aydin M, at 12:54 am