A right shower
Nov. 6th, 2007 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksHaving become addicted to my shower in the morning, the old habit of making my sandwiches while the bath was running has had to be ditched. I now have the shower and make my sandwiches after the shower.
Except that this morning, for no reason that I can think of, I forgot. I was all dressed and ready to go at 5.55am, and so decided to practise a piano piece until 6.15. The concept of making sandwiches just went out of my head. Perhaps I'm having mini-strokes that are affecting very specific parts of my brain.
It was only when I was on the train, nearly at Charing Cross, that it occurred to me that I had failed to do something which I have done virtually automatically, every work morning, for a decade. How weird is that?
So I forked out £2.50 for a bacon and egg mayonnaise on brown.
It was quite nice.
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I'm easing my way back into the gym after a couple of weeks' hiatus. Only five more weeks to the Christmas break. Wow. That's only 15 gym visits. I'm kind of counting it down like that. 20 days in the office, 25 of each newsletter, four weekends, and so on.
All a bit uninspiring the past couple of days. Sometimes it goes like that; you just have nothing about which to write. At other times you can get inspiration from the flimsiest of events.
Oh, yes, I've encountered a big flaw in Vista. You get a second-long shutdown, which appears to be something to do with the ATI Radeon graphics card driver freezing. Vista recovers the situation fairly quickly. It is (apparently) specific to games-playing (or so I read from the fora). Amazingly, this doesn't appear to be Microsoft's fault, but that of ATI's owners AMD. Long debates about what the root cause is, but it appears to be something to do with overheating. Thus far it hasn't caused a serious betting problem, but I fear that it might do one day.
Except that this morning, for no reason that I can think of, I forgot. I was all dressed and ready to go at 5.55am, and so decided to practise a piano piece until 6.15. The concept of making sandwiches just went out of my head. Perhaps I'm having mini-strokes that are affecting very specific parts of my brain.
It was only when I was on the train, nearly at Charing Cross, that it occurred to me that I had failed to do something which I have done virtually automatically, every work morning, for a decade. How weird is that?
So I forked out £2.50 for a bacon and egg mayonnaise on brown.
It was quite nice.
+++++
I'm easing my way back into the gym after a couple of weeks' hiatus. Only five more weeks to the Christmas break. Wow. That's only 15 gym visits. I'm kind of counting it down like that. 20 days in the office, 25 of each newsletter, four weekends, and so on.
All a bit uninspiring the past couple of days. Sometimes it goes like that; you just have nothing about which to write. At other times you can get inspiration from the flimsiest of events.
Oh, yes, I've encountered a big flaw in Vista. You get a second-long shutdown, which appears to be something to do with the ATI Radeon graphics card driver freezing. Vista recovers the situation fairly quickly. It is (apparently) specific to games-playing (or so I read from the fora). Amazingly, this doesn't appear to be Microsoft's fault, but that of ATI's owners AMD. Long debates about what the root cause is, but it appears to be something to do with overheating. Thus far it hasn't caused a serious betting problem, but I fear that it might do one day.
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Date: 2007-11-06 02:29 pm (UTC)You busy "City types" need to shave the seconds off your daily routine.
Put a vegetable crisper in the shower. Whilst showering you can wash your lettuce too. A fridge by the bog. A toaster plugged into the shaver socket. Better still put a gym in your flat. Connect the cycle machine to the toaster via a dynamo.
Get with it!
Thanks for telling me all I need to know about Vista. I need a new pooter so Linux it is. I will keep the XP only stuff on this heap and watch TV and DVDs on the souped-up mutha.