Mine's been a bit fucked up. My laptop suddenly decided to give up on me. I was translating something, when it suddenly BSOD'd. And then it wouldn't boot up anymore. Initially, I thought that the hard drive had kicked the bucket or was about to fail, but after a few more BSOD-s and failed boot-ups, a lot of cursing and a heroic data recovery mission using a 32 MB flash drive and Safe Mode, I was starting to get the impression that this was (luckily!) not the case. Some googling revealed that it could have been caused by virus; some more googling, and I had found a potential remedy. And I fixed it (by fixing the master boot record, where the virus seems to have been hiding). Hooray.

Well, it's not Sunday here, it's Monday (yes, I live in the future). I'm on the train, on my way to work after spending all last week on a training course. This means that I will have to do my usual week of work plus catch up with all the work that piled up last week. Also, I have job interviews to conduct on Wednesday which I hate doing.

Is it possible to put my life in Safe Mode like my computer?

I'm overcommitted, under-resourced, and haven't left myself enough time to feel sane and calm. Why do I keep doing this?

It's summer and I'm missing summertime. I'm a stress case. I'm here at work trying to finish things that need to be done for a program tomorrow, while it's in the 80s and sunny outside.

sucks, so I'm going to bed.

Meh. Inexplicably tired. Helluva tennis match on at the moment, though. James Blake, a friend of my nephew's, and some guy named Stepanek. Very evenly matched. One set a piece. I'm rootin' for Blake, but Stepanek's holding his own.

We had an open house today, trying to sell the place, so we ran around all morning cleaning like mad and then had to go get lost for three hours during the thing. Went and had some Indian food and shopped for a new camera. When we got back, the Realtor was gone and she didn't leave a note or list about whether anyone actually showed up and looked through our house. We'll call the agency tomorrow but the whole thing was very frustrating. The place has been on the market for a month now and we haven't got a single offer yet. The average around here is two months to sell a place so we're not there yet but since we're closing on the new place on Friday, we wouldn't mind getting our money out of this place.

I worked yesterday, so having a late lunch out, then coming home and opening all the doors and windows because it's so cool outside, then playing games on the computer while the hubby reads Harry Potter, with long, slow songs by Spiritualized and Pink Floyd on the stereo, was pretty freakin' awesome.

Daniel Charms - you need Feisty Fawn. Been running it all weekend: works like a dream, virus free, and all for £0.

So very glad my Sunday is over – woke up feeling icky, kinda like a migraine beginning. Since I no longer have anyone to help with these things, got up and out.…Absolutely had to go get provisions for the beasties, so I forced myself to keep going…Not a good idea – wound up an hour away from that nice quiet bed with the works. Nausea, head about to explode, you name it.

Made it back to the nice quiet, dark bathroom and gave homage to the porcelain god until the dry heaves felt like the soles of my feet were going to come up. And, wishing I could rip the top of my head off to relieve the headache. Well, I learned my lesson didn’t I? Finally was able to get a zofran (sp?) pill down (left over from my hubby’s chemo) and that quieted the tummy. Crawled into bed and managed to take hour long naps until this morning.

Oh, and today (Monday) is such a brighter, better day. Nothing like feeling terrible to make you realize how feeble a body can be. So, never going to push that envelope again! Hooray Monday!

Sounds like I'm not the only one with a lot going on over the weekend. I like dg's thought of putting life in Safe Mode...

chuckdarwin: Yeah, but I need an OS I can run longer than for just one weekend. There are some very specific things I need Windows for and can't do without.

Unfortunately, my troubles aren't over yet. My laptop's still acting weird (BSODing) and I can't tell what could be the cause. Overheating? Another virus? Hardware problems? Whatever it is, it sucks.