gark life

Not the best of weekends, or at least one with an inauspicious start. Met up with for an after-work drink on Friday. As we left, complained of feeling queasy. Soon after we got home, this progressed to full-on vomiting. Not good. Did my best to look after her and clear up. Poor night’s sleep, thanks to the being restless and wanting four or five feeds (we’ve been led to believe that he’ll get better – we wish he’d hurry up and do so). was feeling a fair bit better the next morning, if not completely Well. She went off to… Read More »A Curate’s Egg

The fan on our main PC has been misbehaving for the past couple of months (buzzing intermittently), which is a fairly good indication that the bearing has been going. The bearing seized completely within the past few days, but I’m not exactly sure when it happened. So, time to replace things. The last time this happened (over a decade ago, on my machine of that time), I replaced the fan, which seemed to do the trick. This time around it looked a little more tricky; I’d have to unsolder the old fan from a very crowded circuitboard in the PSU.… Read More »