Stare at hands like a saving grace

[sovay]

I had intended to spend the majority of my afternoon post-'Thon working, since my brain was going to be no good for critical thinking until it got some sleep.

Bertie Owen got a hairball instead, so I spent the afternoon unsuccessfully attempting to sleep on the couch (multiple phone calls, unceasing car alarm, argument in street pertaining to car alarm) and then, after making fettuccine and hot dogs for dinner with spatch, most of the evening reading both Charles Dickens' and David Edgar's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1839/1980) on the same couch. Different cats curled up with me by turns.

Bertie Owen no longer has a hairball. It was clotting up his fan and making a noise like a mosquito caught in a party blower and had to be surgically removed with tweezers; compressed air wouldn't budge it. Maybe it was more like a bezoar. I'm so fond of this machine, but I don't understand a thing about him.

Comments

[gwynnega]

I'm glad Bertie has recovered!

[sovay]

I'm glad Bertie has recovered!

Thank you! We were afraid it was the fan, but it wasn't, really.

[alexxkay]

It seems like a computo-bezoar ought to have interesting alchemic applications.

[sovay]

It seems like a computo-bezoar ought to have interesting alchemic applications.

Well, we technically saved it, so we could always use it to un-poison someone else's hard drive.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, glad you got it sorted out eventually, though! ♥

[sovay]

Aw, glad you got it sorted out eventually, though!

Thank you! I was braced for things to be much worse.

[selkie]

*smudges things* A hairball. A real hairball. I salute Bertie's sense of literalness.

[sovay]

A hairball. A real hairball. I salute Bertie's sense of literalness.

I never had a computer I loved before him, but here we are.

[asakiyume]

The parallel reading and cats sounds blissful. Glad Bertie Owen managed to clear its hairball/bezoar.

[sovay]

The parallel reading and cats sounds blissful.

It was not good for any of my deadlines, but I think it was really good for me.

Glad Bertie Owen managed to clear its hairball/bezoar.

Thank you!