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Missing in Action
04/10/2021 07:32 pmThe last time I darkened the door of the room with the Big Mac was more than four weeks ago. It did not take too long to remember exactly why,
I used to leave it in sleep mode but have taken to turning the infernal thing off lately since I so rarely go near it. So I was not amused to be confronted by a spinning beachball when I had nothing open but 2 web browsers. I restored Chrome but in spite of having only 7 tabs, the spinning beachball from hell was back in action. It took ages to be able to force quit only to get a bright shiny new Chrome icon that bounced up and down but would not open. Firefox with no restored tabs was not much better.
It takes ages to load anything and by the time the DW post page turned up, I was just about ready to call it quits. But I said, it would be crazy to go to all that effort with nothing at all to show for it.
So I decided I would lurk until 8pm before hitting the hay. Because if I had not already been tired before dealing with this infernal beast, I am absolutely exhausted now.
Unfortunately, I cannot log out for another 4 weeks because I have the pesky job mob to deal with which is the only reason I am here now in the first place.
There has been lots of things happening in Dursleyville. The zoo is open until 7.30pm for the duration of the school holidays. I normally wouldn't be caught dead near the place because of my allergy to kids but most of them have gone home by 5pm and the zoo really is very different at dusk. The birds and frogs start partying and an assortment of interesting weeds unleash their bewitching fragrance after dark.
There have also been 2 baby giraffes born in the last 4 weeks.
So I have been to the zoo 4 times last week and intend to go at least 3 times this week. That's where the annual zoo pass comes in handy. No need to DO the zoo. I just turn up for between 2 and 3 hours and lurk in one section.
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I used to leave it in sleep mode but have taken to turning the infernal thing off lately since I so rarely go near it. So I was not amused to be confronted by a spinning beachball when I had nothing open but 2 web browsers. I restored Chrome but in spite of having only 7 tabs, the spinning beachball from hell was back in action. It took ages to be able to force quit only to get a bright shiny new Chrome icon that bounced up and down but would not open. Firefox with no restored tabs was not much better.
It takes ages to load anything and by the time the DW post page turned up, I was just about ready to call it quits. But I said, it would be crazy to go to all that effort with nothing at all to show for it.
So I decided I would lurk until 8pm before hitting the hay. Because if I had not already been tired before dealing with this infernal beast, I am absolutely exhausted now.
Unfortunately, I cannot log out for another 4 weeks because I have the pesky job mob to deal with which is the only reason I am here now in the first place.
There has been lots of things happening in Dursleyville. The zoo is open until 7.30pm for the duration of the school holidays. I normally wouldn't be caught dead near the place because of my allergy to kids but most of them have gone home by 5pm and the zoo really is very different at dusk. The birds and frogs start partying and an assortment of interesting weeds unleash their bewitching fragrance after dark.
There have also been 2 baby giraffes born in the last 4 weeks.
So I have been to the zoo 4 times last week and intend to go at least 3 times this week. That's where the annual zoo pass comes in handy. No need to DO the zoo. I just turn up for between 2 and 3 hours and lurk in one section.
( Read more... )
