DVT DAY 57 (13 days no injections)
Today was in danger of going well. I had risen from a relatively good nights sleep and negotiated breakfast without any mishap. I made it to the shed and set myself up to work, all was going well. I typed up a blog for work and started to make te materials that go with it, at this point I am ahead of the game. I write a couple of cards to people that had sent me letters. I use my last stamp and had to scrat around to find a Christmas second class stamp for one of the cards. I am still feeling like I am ahead, so its time for lunch.
The household agree it’s going to be soup for lunch so I set to and prepare it, I even wam bread rolls in the oven. Delicious. Some where in here my partner picks up my little HP Elite Notebook and does not notice that the external backup hard drive is attached to it and drops it. I’m on my way to the shed to continue my day, check to see if he new solar pond pump is working as the sun has come out. It does, I’m chuffed. Over lunch we had identified somethings that we are short of that need to go on the Sainsburys delivery list for Thursday so I go to my little Elite Notebook to log on and change the order while I remember. My little HP Elite is not feeling elite anymore and gives me the message that “Boot Manager corrupt. Cannot boot “. The day turns to instant rat shit! Not even a card from a friend can cut through this. I get into the system and set it to diagnose the problem and check the hardware and the memory before doing anything else. That’s going to take 2 hours and 45 minutes the machine tells me. I go to the kitchen and cook. I chop vegetables with venom, and hack chicken flesh with glee. I wasn’t going to cook it straight away just prepare stuff but in the end I just got on with it and put it in the oven to quietly simmer away, a bit like me. Kitchen cleared I return to the HP elite sorry for itself laptop. I try several things but it will not play, so I end up getting it to boot to a Windows 10 USB stick and select “repair my computer”. It whirrs, it loads files and goes blank…it comes back with options… I choose…it goes blank…it returns and says it cannot repair my computer. Not impressed, I continue my battle. This going to take all night I can tell it in my IT bones.
There will be dinner first , then more IT bollox and then if I am lucky I will get to go out with a friend for a drink, all via the phone or zoom or something. Which in fact happened. I end up my day having a very long conversation with a friend on the phone. The first proper conversation with someone outside the family that I have had since I started my lock down weeks ago. I guess I was garrulous because its been so long, but it was a real pleasure.
