Things not going well recently, had a few problems with a job application towards the end of the week due to email issues on my laptop, but it won’t be an issue again for a while as the laptop is now dead. Got up with me tea tray on my lap with the power cord wrapped around my leg and as I tried to shake it free my coffee cup slipped of the tray and smacked down on the laptop, since then not a peep out of it, not even a light to show the power cord is plugged in. I’m thinking the two may not be unconnected? So it’s away to Comet, might get it back in about 2-3 weeks. Bugger. Up until then I had been having a lovely time watching the ‘Around the World in 80 Telescopes’ webcast. Got a little grief at Comet, they agreed to send it off to be checked out and suggested that it might be swapped if too badly damaged to repair; fair enough but I remembered I hadn’t taken out the extra 2Gb of memory and asked for a screwdriver to remove the panel and take it out, at which point somebody chirps up, ‘if you’ve added memory it might invalidate the insurance’. Say what!! By the time she’d wandered five steps to go and consult with her manager, I’d already constructed the first dozen lines to Comet Customer Service. Anyway it seemed to blow over and it’s away to the tender care of whoever does the repair and should be back no later than 24rh April.
