Look, I managed to blog in the morning rather than last thing in the evening! This is probably a mistake, as we're supposed to be heading out to a wedding in about half an hour and I still need to have a shower and get dressed, but I have coffee to drink and I shower quickly. Yes, I bloody well do. So there.
In lieu of anything particularly massively exciting happening in the intervening hours since last night and this morning (largely sleeping) I thought I'd mention a peculiar dream I had. It is one of those ones that was very vivid but didn't really make much sense, so as such I found it quite intriguing.
The main gist of it all was that I was using a computer of some description. For some reason, the casing for the computer (which seemed to be some sort of strange hybrid between a desktop and a laptop system) was open, and I could see into it. I dropped a piece of chocolate (I don't know) onto a vent on part of the casing that was still covered, and I could see it was seeping in, so I wanted to do something about it. I opened the case further and saw that there was, for some reason, a screwdriver that had been left inside the machine. Against all of the advice people give you when you're learning about computers, I reached inside to grab it, when…
ZZap!
I felt a slight electric shock, and the display on the screen went what can only be described as "wrong". If you've ever seen what a graphics card with a loose connection does, it was that. Wrong colouring, fuzzy bits, pixels where they shouldn't be. I hastily switched off the computer, removed the screwdriver, gave it a moment and then turned it back on again.
Instead of booting up normally, the computer switched to a second display that invited me to fix the problem with the main screen by drawing straight lines across photographs of walls. Except after I completed the first one, I somehow found myself actually drawing paint lines across a real wall with my big toe. I couldn't make it all the way across one of the walls, so I gave up, turned the computer off and back on again. It went back to having broken graphics, and then I saw a leaflet on the desk explaining the wall-painting thing — it was a piece of software you could install to randomly pop up the wall-painting game randomly whenever you turned your computer on. It had no discernible benefit whatsoever, and certainly couldn't fix a fried graphics card.
I have no idea what all that means. It's probably some sort of metaphor for some sort of dee-seated anxiety or neurosis. But I don't really have time to think about it now. Coffee. Shower. Wedding. Later!
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Soooooooo . . . . . your brain is telling you that your computer needs a rest . . . .or you need a rest from it (which I personally DON'T want you to have). . . . or you are having premonitions of your computer graphics card about to crap itself (which would be a really handy premonition to have). Sounds like you are about to get a lovely new computer, obviously the very latest, most innovative kind, with lots of cool apps and features for you to explore, as a reward for all your amazing dedication to the damn … er pardon moi . . .wonderful invention over the years! 😀 Lucky ol' Yourmies! Let me know which turns out to be correct. 😀
BTW – Have you noticed how bloody many Blogs you have done now!!!!! It's a wonder your hands are still attached to your wrists and that your head hasn't fallen off!!!
Hah. If it was a premonition of my graphics card crapping out it's a few months too late — I had to replace the card in my gaming machine a few months back. 🙂
Yes, I have noticed! I think about it every time I write that number. That's kind of a lot. Ah well. Might as well keep going now, eh?
Absobloodylutely!!!! 😀