Twang!!!

Dec. 19th, 2002 10:43 pm
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Well, I've been out playing at bows and arrows again, and it turns out that the folk from the archery club like me. In fact, they like me so much that they gave me a bottle of wine. Which is nice.

Their pretext was that I'd outshot the rest of the course, which in a tediously technical sense I had - by 20 points (a score of 410 for a Portsmouth round (5 dozen arrows, so a maximum possible score of 600) over 20 metres). They implied that this wasn't so bad for a third session, which was very nice of them.

It turns out that one of their weekly shoots is within walking distance of the house. So . . . do I join their club or not?

Captain's log, supplemental : We've just had a transient power glitch here at Fuckwit Close. Zariba-under-the-stairs, which handles mail and routing, had an uptime of a bit over seven months. Now it has an uptime of a bit over seven minutes. The last time was a power glitch also. It's Maggie's fault, you know. I distinctly remember [livejournal.com profile] karmicnull explaining to me, sometime around '89 or '90, that deregulation of the electricity supply industry on the terms imposed was inevitably going to lead to a general decline in the quality of the AC supply and a boom in sales for UPS and mains filtering companies. And how right he was. Take a bow, Simon . . .

Date: 2002-12-20 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karmicnull.livejournal.com
Stands to reason really. No compelling reason for companies to provide domestic users with redundancy the way the market is currently structured.

We now anticipate at least one outage every month. Had four yesterday, two of which knocked out Athena. Fortunately no loss of data - I was upstairs wrapping presents. Bloody difficult finding the end of the sellotape by candlelight, mind you.

Date: 2002-12-20 01:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] devilgate.livejournal.com
Isn't this going to make our recording sessions a tad... problematic?

Date: 2002-12-20 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karmicnull.livejournal.com
Nah! You just need to adopt a born again attitude.


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