Like a salmon leaping up a weir
Jan. 15th, 2008 04:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnommiToday is shaping up to be One Of Those Days.
I get up at 8am. I set up my work computer, which involves a lot of cable-swapping. I start work 9am on the dot. Open up the paper I am re-editing. Mac freezes and gives me the wheel of death when I try to shut it down. Restart Mac. Mac refuses to connect to internet, won't open Word. Reboot Mac. Open up paper I am re-editing. Re-edit abstract into Cytometry format and save. Mac freezes and gives me the wheel of death. Restart Mac. Abstract changes not saved. REPEAT PROCEDURE 5 times. Turn Mac off and leave off for 10 minutes. Restart.
Upload clonogenicity data set from pen drive. Count colonies and save .tiff files (and record in practical book because now I am paranoid). Analyse data. Graph data. Realise one data set got lost in the transfer and is now corrupted on my data stick. Realise this has buggered up my statistical analyses. Delete graphs and analyses. Re-open paper. MAC CRASHES.
DEEP BREATH
SO. Decide to go to the shops to buy new light bulbs and top up my wool for the crochet blanket of doom. Starts raining as soon as I am too far from home to go back to fetch umbrella. Buy bulbs. Wool turns out to be new batches and shades do not match what I've been using. Buy wool anyway. Walk home, get wet. One lightbulb works for approximately 30sec before ***PING***, find out other bulb doesn't work either, and this is because the light fitting has a loose connection.
SO I now feel totally justified in giving up for the day and taking to WoW and chocolate.
On the plus side, crochet square count= 58
I get up at 8am. I set up my work computer, which involves a lot of cable-swapping. I start work 9am on the dot. Open up the paper I am re-editing. Mac freezes and gives me the wheel of death when I try to shut it down. Restart Mac. Mac refuses to connect to internet, won't open Word. Reboot Mac. Open up paper I am re-editing. Re-edit abstract into Cytometry format and save. Mac freezes and gives me the wheel of death. Restart Mac. Abstract changes not saved. REPEAT PROCEDURE 5 times. Turn Mac off and leave off for 10 minutes. Restart.
Upload clonogenicity data set from pen drive. Count colonies and save .tiff files (and record in practical book because now I am paranoid). Analyse data. Graph data. Realise one data set got lost in the transfer and is now corrupted on my data stick. Realise this has buggered up my statistical analyses. Delete graphs and analyses. Re-open paper. MAC CRASHES.
DEEP BREATH
SO. Decide to go to the shops to buy new light bulbs and top up my wool for the crochet blanket of doom. Starts raining as soon as I am too far from home to go back to fetch umbrella. Buy bulbs. Wool turns out to be new batches and shades do not match what I've been using. Buy wool anyway. Walk home, get wet. One lightbulb works for approximately 30sec before ***PING***, find out other bulb doesn't work either, and this is because the light fitting has a loose connection.
SO I now feel totally justified in giving up for the day and taking to WoW and chocolate.
On the plus side, crochet square count= 58