Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

The sun has finally climbed enough since the solstice for me to notice.

The past two days, I've gone to bed a bit chilly -- enough to pull allll the covers over myself, but not cold enough to bundle up in a fuzzy sleeper. And I've woken up hot and had to throw some of the covers off. The sun has started coming in through the bedroom window quite powerfully. The house starts cooling off again during the warmest part of the day, once the angle changes enough that I'm no longer getting that morning warming, but not as chilly as it would be without that early kick. (Only a few rooms are affected by the morning heating.) The difference between this effect now and the same thing a week ago is quite dramatic.

Remember a couple of weeks ago when I accidentaly made life very inconvenient for myself by depositing money to an accoount I only had one check left for? And how I was convinced that I must have had another box of checks somewhere? Guess what I just found.

I slept more last night than I thought I would, which is good, but the sun still woke me a little early (shades of Pennsic, eh?). I think it's naptime now. Earlier today RuPaul (my Win95 machine) got really slow and eventutually threw a BSOD ... which turned into an infinite loop of blue screens. I gave it the three-finger salute, and now it refuses to boot at all. It gets through POST, complains about a P&P conflict in the same place where it has always complained, but after I hit F1 all I get is an underscore cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. If I wait long enough, one or both of the disk drives will click slowly for a little while and then stop again. (Not a click-of-death, just the track positioning stepper motor moving). I really want to fix it, and it bugs me to walk away from a broken machine, but I think the nap is going to have to come first.