Current mood:

bored

Two weeks later ...
I got my laptop back from repair and thought that everything was good for a couple of days. Wrong! It started freezing up, rebooting or boot insanely slow, so I thought I better format it and reinstall Windows. Oh well, it also booted during Windows XP setup, so I figured there was probably something wrong with the hardware. At first I thought the hard disk hard started dying, but then I noticed that my laptop was sometimes convinced that I only got 32 mb of ram (and XP runs extremely slow at 32 mb ram!), so I finally figured that the ram was probably defect.

Now the laptop is back for repair, and as usual I have no idea about when it will be back, and how they will try to charge me for it after wards, even though it is still covered by warranty.

Except for the usual laptop frustrations things are going pretty well; I'm starting to get the hang of working as a consultant, and since today is pay day I've also seen the first fruits of my increased work effort - and I like it :)

Tomorrow December kicks in, and when it comes to christmas it seems like surprisingly many people actually don't like christmas very much. Maybe it's because they don't like their families, but I mean; there is still the gifts and the food! Just after christmas I'm going with the girlfriend, her parents and sisters to the Portuguese island of Madeira to celebrate, hopefully, a fantastic new years eve.