I am nice* and don't deserve this
Oct. 26th, 2015 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett1. I got home to a letter from the DWP informing me that I need to apply for PIP. This at least answers the question about whether I tell them that my hips have started dislocating on the regular.
2. I just did a round of upgrades on my laptop, and also installed Google Chrome for troubleshooting purposes, and I know it's probably the fault of the former not the latter but nonetheless "[FAILED] Failed to mount /boot/efi" is not a good error message and I have been travelling for six hours today so I am doing nothing more with it right now.
* FSVO
e: aaaaaand problem solved. (It was actually a two-parter -- to get as far as booting again I had to do
2. I just did a round of upgrades on my laptop, and also installed Google Chrome for troubleshooting purposes, and I know it's probably the fault of the former not the latter but nonetheless "[FAILED] Failed to mount /boot/efi" is not a good error message and I have been travelling for six hours today so I am doing nothing more with it right now.
* FSVO
e: aaaaaand problem solved. (It was actually a two-parter -- to get as far as booting again I had to do
dpkg --configure -a, following which there were desktop environment problems that were fixed by the above. Reinstalling lightdm and mate by themselves didn't do it.)
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Date: 2015-10-26 10:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2015-10-26 11:09 pm (UTC)unpacked bag
repacked bag
put away laundry
fed breadpet
got some Schwarzbrot started
made & ate dinner
wiped down kitchen surfaces
took out green waste
washing up
meds for the next week
installed Chrome for spr0t troubleshooting
spectacularly broke Debian install
tidied desk
Duolingo
TODO
salt dough
pack dough
GP
phone DWP re PIP
counselling
assistive tech training
wash hair?
deal with CAB e-mails
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Date: 2015-10-27 12:55 am (UTC)Do you know of/from corn rye bread? (I don't know if it's actually spelled corn, or korn, or corned, or what...)
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Date: 2015-10-27 01:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-27 10:32 am (UTC)- shower breakfast clothes drugs
- salt dough, pack dough
- GP
- booked follow-up (phone appt), entered in diary
- phoned DWP re PIP
- various software updates on Windows partition
- e-mailed S re Occy Health
- established that I hyperextend my thumbs when pushing
- started reading textbook
- counselling
- assistive tech training
- installed MikTeX
- dishwasher
- dinner + dessert
- tumblr
- deal with CAB e-mail
- gig planning
- read & reply to Behavioral Lab e-mail
- answer support req re Chrome (via installing Chrome)
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Date: 2015-10-27 04:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-27 08:47 am (UTC)Oh, ick!
Oh, ow! Bendy sympathy.
Wise! Hope you find a simple fix.
ETA: And yes you are, for lots of values of nice.
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Date: 2015-10-27 10:16 am (UTC)I have spent the past several nights cackling wickedly about the soup-stirring approach to conducting frequently exhibited by choral types, so, you know, for some values of nice it is less true ;)
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Date: 2015-10-27 04:06 pm (UTC)holy fuck that's terrible. and terrifying.
(also here there's a regular crop of totally stressed out students who need hospital, so I would assume that would be extra true in Cambridge. >.> )
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Date: 2015-10-27 07:50 pm (UTC)degradeintermit (terminology also being a relatively recent victory).(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-28 04:30 am (UTC)Good luck.
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Date: 2015-10-27 04:06 pm (UTC)<3
ugh
(also, I would be tempted to blame Google Chrome too)
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Date: 2015-10-28 12:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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