mixed bags with silver linings

[kaberett]

• On Tuesday evening, my laptop ran out of battery, put itself to sleep, and lost its hard drive. I have successfully (1) not panicked much, (2) got on with my life or at least the mass spec, (3) got A to help me do some simple diagnostics, (4) taken it back to the place I got it less than a year ago and got them to order replacement parts because alas they couldn't sell me something on the spot so I could just go home and spend this evening sorting myself back out, which means that (5) I had the opportunity to dig out the 12-month repair warranty and set it to one side to take with me when I go to pick the thing back up, meaning that this Ought To Be Free.
  
• On Monday, we had alexwlchan around. I got some of the spinach-and-butternut-squash-and-roast-garlic-and-ricotta pasta out of the freezer, portioned out the amount we were going to want to eat for dinner, and then absent-mindedly put the remainder back into... the fridge, not the freezer. Which means that dinner tonight -- I got in a little before eight -- is that pasta, along with the leftover tomato-and-mascarpone-sauce, only I'm the only one eating it tonight so it now also contains a slightly obnoxious quantity of chilli, plus bonus nutmeg.
  
• The non-existence of buses between Green Park and South Ken due to the Extinction Rebellion protest (which, yes, is very worthy, but this means there is no reasonable accessible route for me to get into work and I had machine time booked and I'm just quite augh about the ways in which this specifically fucks over disabled people massively disproportionately to the effect on people using public transport who don't need level access) led to me getting up ridiculously early this morning and then pushing from Green Park to lab via Hyde Park. This involved two pairs of Egyptian geese with three spotty little balls of fluff each. (Also there were some Loudly Beeping Moorhens, and a lot of yell birds in general.)

Comments

[sfred]

I hope laptop is fixed quickly.
Ugh to disproportionate impact on disabled people of disruption to public transport.
Yay for goslings.

[kaberett]

They were such good goslings.

[vass]

Bloody hell re computer. :((( Any chance they can recover the data?

Good work finding the warranty.

And I'm impressed by your determination re getting up ridiculously early and pushing across the park.

[kaberett]

So it was running just fine until low-battery-induced full-power-down so I strongly suspect (given difficulty booting Windows the week before, mumble mumble) that the vast majority of it is... fine, it's just the boot partition that's completely fucked? So getting data off shouldn't be toooooo hard, I hope? And for bonus points, the data I actually care about that isn't trivially backed up is mostly just ("just") browser tabs, so losing those isn't the end of the world.

Warranty was indeed found immediately and straightforwardly. So hopefully I'll get a phone call (ugh) tomorrow to tell me it's all sorted, at which point I will get on public transport into central (double ugh) and wave the warranty at them. (It's not clear to me whether they're intending to copy my non-encrypted data over as part of the service, but either way they've made a note that I'd like the dead hard drive returned to me.)