and since I can see this post, it means my silly Linux blogging client thingy is working. More later.

It’s been far too long since my last post. Again. You see, my computer crashed…

It really did! Last Monday there was a lovely bluescreen waiting for me when I got up to say good morning to my darling laptop, and it turned out the hard drive was, well, indisponiert. Then we went on a mini-vacation… and returned this Monday, at which time the hard drive decided to work again. I don’t get computers.

Anyway, to make a long story slightly shorter, there was something wrong with the hard drive, and some tech guy from Dell was here yesterday and replaced it. (I have a next business day warranty thing. They replace stuff for me.) I even got more storage space (well, 40Gb instead of 30, but what the heck).

There was only one thing left to do when the tech guy had left — reinstall Windows. That’s when I realized I have absolutely no idea where the Dell/XP restoration CD that came with the laptop is. It’s vanished. So, after trying out Debian for a while and not quite liking it, I am now running Fedora Core 5. (Everything works but the SD card reader, if anyone’s interested.)

Oh, and I didn’t knit one stitch during our tiny vacation, but instead managed to almost finish the left front of the green patterned thing as soon as I got home.

That’s when I realized I had misplaced the pattern by one stitch. One. Lousy. Stitch. I’m so glad the baby was asleep when I discovered it, or he would have gotten some very unwelcome additions to his vocabulary. (Not that he’s talking or anything, I just don’t want him to get the wrong idea of his Loving Mother.)

Well, it’s been a busy couple of days. Sort of. I got a little tired of Forecast getting practically nowhere, and due to a certain financial problem I was unable to buy myself the right size dpn’s for the sleeves, so… I did as I always do, and started something new.

I decided on this vest-thing. Also, I’m much better off knitting this right now, since I’ll be too big for regular cardigans in a couple of months and the vest is sort of bolero-length instead. It turns out the vest-thing makes wonderful TV knitting, especially after I got my contacts this Thursday and was actually able to make out the characters’ faces without squinting. (I love my contacts.)

Yup, that’s the Dallas season three DVD that’s peeking out from underneath the creepy acrylic piece of knitting (from this cheap acrylic stash yarn) that’s destined to one day become the (hopefully) quite lovely and very practical vest. I had just finished the Who Shot J.R.? episode and was about to replay the last ten minutes of it for my boyfriend, who had missed that crucial part of the intrigue (I keep him updated), when this evil, evil piece of equipment decided to develop a mind of its own:

(Doesn’t it look evil to you?)

It stopped working. It just stopped. It won’t play my Dallas DVDs anymore. (Well, it won’t play anything anymore, but I wouldn’t be nearly as upset had this happened during, say, uh, anything but my darling Dallas.)

I’m sure it’s the acrylic yarn that finally pushed the DVD over the edge. It probably would have survived much, much longer had I used the alpaca the vest pattern originally called for.

Fortunately, there’s a computer here that my boyfriend promises will play my precious little babies, but it’s just not the same. It doesn’t have a remote, for one. I think we’ll be getting a cheap new DVD player very, very soon.

I won’t tell you how much I dislike Wordpress right now. Suffice it to say that the last post took some time and a couple of hard words to recover.

I have three questions, basically, and since the chance of any of my (few) readers being a Wordpress developer is very slim (not to say nonexistent), they will have to be rhetorical.

- Why doesn’t the damn thing give any kind of notice when you click ‘Delete’ on the post managing page? What if you click it accidentally? (Yes, yes, I did, but it’s very close to the ‘Edit’ button.)

- When trying to post again, why is the damn thing unable to save and publish a new post with the same title as the old one (i.e. a completely identical post)?

- Why, when you’ve finally rediscovered the original post in your web browser cache (or similar) won’t the damn thing publish it in an edited form (i.e. not completely identical) until you’ve RELOADED the damn post-writing page? (It just pretends to save and publish, but really, laughs evilly and deletes all text from the screen)

Arrrgh.

Oh, and Wordpress? You know you’ll always be my baby, I just don’t like it when you eat my posts and then laugh evilly about it. Be nice, and I’ll keep you.