Psychologically, I'm very confused

Monday evening.  13th.  Backdated cause my blog was broken (through no fault of my own).  Since I've gotten back my phone is still very confused about where it is.  I tried to set myself a reminder to do something at 8am the next day, but it tried to set it for 11pm, and when I tried to change it said it couldn't set it to the past.  I asked Siri "what time is it?" and she responded in Houston time.  Stoopid Apple.  So I rebooted it.  Which fixed that problem but broke my wallpaper - just a black screen instead of what I have set.  After a bit of fiddling it's come back, but it's happened every time I've rebooted - I have to go in, set the wallpaper to another set, then set it back again.  So dumb.  Roast pork for dinner then SImpsons and The Crown.

Rainbow

Double rainbow

Double rainbow

Roast pork

Tuesday.  Slept from around 20:30 til 5:00.  Got epic grunty at my bank because the international transaction fees I'd gotten since the beginning of March hadn't been rebated.  I asked why and they said it was because I hadn't put the requisite amount in that account that month.  Yeah CAUSE I WAS FRICKEN TRAVELLING!!  Other than keeping an eye on the balance I just wasn't thinking about that crap.  So lame.  Pretty pissed off.. but I guess it was only about $10 worth.  Still sux though.  Backed up David's photos onto the NAS.  He took 39568 photos on his Canon (234GB).  Craziness.  Continued being Neil (for the whole week).  Couldn't see in the afternoon, worst it's ever been.  Booked an optometrist appointment (a real optometrist this time instead of specsavers) but the appointment is a couple of weeks away :(  Chicken/feta/spinach sausages for dinner and another early night because I can't see my computer anyway and I'm tired.

Oh, I cut these oak tree suckers back before I went away.  In a month they'd grown back this much..

Oak tree suckers

Wednesday.  Slept from about 20:30 to 5:45.  Windoze has made a bunch of crappy "upgrades" recently.  Liked tabbed Notepad.  Some things I like about it, some not so much.  But get this for a regression: it used to be that if you didn't have a file saved it would show you a * in the title bar so you could remember to save it.  They took this away in their latest "upgrade".  Another dumb thing.. well two.. with command prompt, I have this pinned to the task bar.  Except now when you start it it doesn't start in the pinned location, it starts all the way over on the right.  What's the point of pinning it if it's going to start up wherever it feels like??  Stoopid.  Also, whenever you paste more than one line of commands it brings up a popup that's like, are you sure you want to post more than one line of text?  YES DAMMIT!!  And.  (it keeps coming).  Now whenever I add or remove a USB drive, it collapses every explorer window back to the root.  How f%&*ing stoopid is that??  So I have to reexpand all my folders to where I was working on them.  Hate.  On a lighter note, the desktop wallpaper I have is being better behaved - actually working on all four desktops, and not randomly resizing on the second monitor.

Thursday.  Early night again, woke up around 5.  Did a bit of a rework of my backup plan, because the 2T drives keep filling up.  So some files will go from having three backups to only two.  Being Neil, as well as some decom work.  Quiet drinks, early night.

Spider

Friday.  Had an early night but very restless, then hurty.  Managed a bit more sleep then finally woke up around 6:30.  Did some APNIC training on routing.  Another storage blowup in the afternoon (completely unrelated but similar impact).  Plus I couldn't see.  Might have been talked into a drink at the pub after work.  Had some hazy leprechaun, aka soylent green.

Soylent Green Hazy Leprechaun

Then dinner with EffanC at Hachiko which was expensive but very nice.

Saturday.  Another early morning session of hurty.  Sigh.  Spent ages making sure I have everything off the laptop (for this trip but other stuff as well).  Did some more on the Titanic.  Caught up on some holiday blogging (typing up, not online yet).  Watched The Shop Around the Corner with a very young Jimmy Stewart.  I didn't even know this existed until recently.

Hand held Orion

Sunday.  Helicopters!  Will put that in another post. More holiday writeups.  As always Sunday is a battle to get my photos off my phone.  But when I went to blog I got this error:

Got an error: install_driver(mysql) failed: Attempt to reload DBD/mysql.pm aborted.
Compilation failed in require

FFS.  Wondered if this had anything to do with other crap they've been doing recently.  For example, all our websites were offline for several hours while we were away.  Then David lost his ftp account - it was literally gone, and I had to recreate it.  Sigh.  Too hard to SEEE so too hard to deal with, but there appeared to be changes on the Saturday night, because some symlinks for libmysqlclient were touched on 18/3.  So possibly that's when it broke.  Not happy Jan!