Pumped me fulla trash, at least it smelt like trash.

[reddragdiva]

Tuesday morning I knocked over my laptop and it shut down and now won't boot. OH NOES!!1! (sob) I am without my universal entertainment device and my other LJ entries from the trip! Compaq service manuals are all online and pretty good, and I have a 2.5"-to-3.5" hard disk adapter. We'll see.

Monday was a day of Nothing. I spent as much of it as possible asleep. I did discover I'd lost yet another nipple ring ball Sunday night. Tuesday we did a tiny bit of touristing, mostly fish and chips for lunch at the Duke of York and walking back along Church Street looking in shop windows and buying things. In the evening we cleaned stuff, washed clothes and called the landlady to admit we'd dyed the shower hose pink. (Problems Only Goths' Landlords Have.) Dinner was Co-op pizzas of middling mediocrity and great cheapness.

Wednesday we rose at the crack of arse again to do the dishes, give the place a once-over and pee off into town to wait for our train. Met the gaggle of Sheffgoths from the way up (Dave, Laura, their six-year-old daughter Erin who loved spending time with the Goths and thought they were all really pretty, Jay, Louise, Rob and Eleanor) and hung out with them while waiting ... on train station steps. (Hello to our Perth readers!)

We got back to Kings Cross at six and got a taxi home, to find a mountain of kitten doings left that day while sheridanwilde was out at the pictures. (Boy does this post deserve the "incoming!" icon.) arkady popped round at just the right time and has been a fantastic help. One quick zoom around, some Tough Love to the kitties and some takeout later and we're exhaling a little. I do have all of the photos from the trip now safely copied to the G4. (The card reader on the printer Just Works. You shove a card into it and it shows up as a disk. I love this printer more and more. And just using the Mac and its habit of Just Working has reduced my stress incredibly.) More later when I've given the laptop a beating. Date with Arkady scheduled for tomorrow, probably involving much beer at the Dev.

Comments

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

You: "Hello? We've, um, dyed our shower hose pink."
Landyady: "You've done WHAT?"
Y: "Dyed our shower hose. Pink."
LL: ".......why?" (in a small voice)

[reddragdiva]

This is Whitby. They know what goth tenants are like: they're well behaved and polite, drink a lot and, er, dye the shower funny colours. She's apparently had it happen several times before ...

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

Whitby, Yorkshire, UK? Or another Whitby?

[reddragdiva]

That Whitby.

[shamus9999.livejournal.com]

You forget, I'm transoceanically challenged. I have no idea what or where this wonderland called Whitby is. :)

[reddragdiva]

The one in Yorkshire!

[simonsatori.livejournal.com]

It was great to meet such an infamous LJer this New Year... and Adelle and I had a fantastic (drunken, fattening) time.

If/when you develop or put the photos on a website (especially of myself or my equally vain wife (the small pretty one with blond or pink hair) then please tell me. Your photos looked fantastic on the small camera screen.

See you again somewhere sometime.

[reddragdiva]

I certainly shall! At the moment the nicely tweaked versions are on the dead laptop ... but all the shots themselves are safely saved on the Mac. And are still on the camera's SD card. And I might burn a disk as well just to be sure.

[oxentwins.livejournal.com]

I also would like a link to the whitby pics, when there up

[reddragdiva]

See http://www.livejournal.com/users/reddragdiva/284126.html for TEMPORARY location.

[reddragdiva]

See http://www.livejournal.com/users/reddragdiva/284126.html for TEMPORARY location.