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cat63 at 07:59pm on 19/02/2014 under family, pootery things, the intransigence of inanimate objects
cat63 at 07:59pm on 19/02/2014 under family, pootery things, the intransigence of inanimate objectsParents-in-law successfully visited hand clinic at hospital and toddled off back home yesterday.
The docs apparently took a piece of nerve from pa-in-law's arm and put it in his poorly finger, which sounds jolly clever, especially as they did it without a general anaesthetic.
He has to go back there on Friday, apparently to have the stitches out, although that sounds very quick for doing that!
Just for extra fun and games, we slept in the lounge on Monday night, having given Rob's dad our bedroom, and so Rob turned off his computer to stop it keeping us awake. As it turned out, it would have been more use if he could have turned off the cat, who made a huge nuisance of himself miaowing and trying to get into the room.
Then, when he restarted the computer in the morning it kept behaving as if it was trying to download a BIOS update and then restarting itself.
So I spent half an hour or so on Tuesday morning talking to nice man called Jose at Applecare, who talked me through several different attempts at starting up with limited success, until we were left with the option of erasing the hard drive and starting over. Not too bad, I thought, since Rob makes regular backups to an external hard drive array called a Drobo.
Unfortunately, when we'd done what was needed and I came to restore from the backup disc, the most recent backup was from January 9th. Bah.
So I bethought me that it would be a good idea to check that my own backups (to a similar but separate device) were up to date. Nope. Last on on Jan 9th. Bugger.
And my computer couldn't see the Drobo. So I restarted the computer, which usually fixes that. No dice.
Shut computer down, restarted Drobo, restarted computer.
Computer can now see Drobo, but one of the four drives has a red light next to it. Removed and reinserted the drive in that bay... and now the Drobo is busy redistributing data between the four drives in it. Only 14 hours to go.....
And somewhere in there, the computer decided (again!) that my nice shiny Apple keyboard doesn't exist and will only talk to the big clunky blue Macally one, that's older than our house....
I am Not Amused.
The docs apparently took a piece of nerve from pa-in-law's arm and put it in his poorly finger, which sounds jolly clever, especially as they did it without a general anaesthetic.
He has to go back there on Friday, apparently to have the stitches out, although that sounds very quick for doing that!
Just for extra fun and games, we slept in the lounge on Monday night, having given Rob's dad our bedroom, and so Rob turned off his computer to stop it keeping us awake. As it turned out, it would have been more use if he could have turned off the cat, who made a huge nuisance of himself miaowing and trying to get into the room.
Then, when he restarted the computer in the morning it kept behaving as if it was trying to download a BIOS update and then restarting itself.
So I spent half an hour or so on Tuesday morning talking to nice man called Jose at Applecare, who talked me through several different attempts at starting up with limited success, until we were left with the option of erasing the hard drive and starting over. Not too bad, I thought, since Rob makes regular backups to an external hard drive array called a Drobo.
Unfortunately, when we'd done what was needed and I came to restore from the backup disc, the most recent backup was from January 9th. Bah.
So I bethought me that it would be a good idea to check that my own backups (to a similar but separate device) were up to date. Nope. Last on on Jan 9th. Bugger.
And my computer couldn't see the Drobo. So I restarted the computer, which usually fixes that. No dice.
Shut computer down, restarted Drobo, restarted computer.
Computer can now see Drobo, but one of the four drives has a red light next to it. Removed and reinserted the drive in that bay... and now the Drobo is busy redistributing data between the four drives in it. Only 14 hours to go.....
And somewhere in there, the computer decided (again!) that my nice shiny Apple keyboard doesn't exist and will only talk to the big clunky blue Macally one, that's older than our house....
I am Not Amused.
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