Fear the Santa

Gotta love those wacky evangelicals.  One more thing to be scared of: yup, the Scriptural evidence that Santa is Satan.

Ho ho ho!

Fixin' Time

The laptop backlight is dead. Yay for wii internet.

Fixin' Time Redux: I am Failymandias, Prince of Fail

And it came to pass that the laptop bulb was dead, dead, dead - so it was declared, "There's nothing to lose in attempting a fix." Let there be many teeny tiny screws, and the cunning expedient of putting the service manual on a palmtop. And lo!   After a few hours and a cuppa there was a new backlight, and it was scorching bright and evenly white, and this was good.

But the People did gaze upon the screen and say, Failymandias, what is this thing we see?  It looks like a huge ugly crack in the screen and dead pixels, yea, unto the third generation.

And Failymandias did see this flaw and was vexed, for his big daft paws had torqued the delicate bits and tweaked the fragile bits beyond endurance, and all was doom and destruction and woe.

Ah well.  It'll do for now.  I wonder if there's anything tasty in the sales..?

London Tri

If you're thinking of entering the London Tri, get your entries in fast - the regular slots are filling up fast.  I'm doing the Standard, age-group.  xeeny , you may now shake your head and sigh at my foolishness, but I just fancy a huge-numbers, high-profile mega-event to balance off the (wonderful) grass-roots stuff.  Plus I get crash-space with a cool lesbian who makes killer falafel. 

Nothing gets the heart fluttering like actual commitment.  :)