Mon 19 July 2004 - Warehouse antics
On Friday, rather than the dull conventional: Go to office / work / eat lunch / work / go home drudgery, I had a little excursion to the warehouse in Dandenong. I was to meet some colleagues there at 10:30, and since my home is not too far (in the grand scheme of things), I decided to go straight from home. In other words… a late sleep-in!
So, I dawdled to bed on Thursday night, finally hitting the pillow at about 12:30 (don’t ask me what I was doing; I have a knack for filling time with useless activities), with my mobile phone turned off, but set to wake me at 8:30. (No, the new alarm clock hasn’t shown up yet).
The whole plan was foiled when the home phone rang at 7:10. 7:10! Bloody, bloody. No sleep-in for me. Was it important? Hmm, moderately I suppose.
Anyway, my task at the warehouse was to fix up a computer that wouldn’t boot. Why wouldn’t it boot? Long geeky explanation follows.
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