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Saturday, November 25, 2006
house pics - 05:50 PM
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just a quick one to show you some more pics from around my house:
- a shelving solution for my bathroom.
- a similar shelving solution for my laundry.
- my computer desk looking more homey & in use.
camera on its last legs? - 11:28 AM
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my camera isn't terrilby healthy. the lcd display has been playing up for quite a while. it's not in colour anymore & sometimes you have to wiggle it about (it's one of those screens which you can spin around & turn upside down & all sort of angles) to stop it showing a split screen with each half of the image on the opposite side of the screen to which it should be showing.
last night, however, when i took a picture after smiley had gone to sleep & the house was all quiet, i could hear it making a funny noise. it was very quiet & i had to put my ear right up against the camera to hear it properly. it's not a hard drive noise, because i've heard that normal noise many times. do you remember the old movies where they'd show someone at a computer console & it would have blinking lights all over it & would be making all sorts of high pitched bleepity-bloopy-bloppity-beep noises? hmm. yep. that's what i can hear from my camera. seriously.
i thought that noise was just same made up noise for movies & that nothing electronic actually ever made that noise. turns out it's a real noise after all .. & my camera's making it. i'm trying to recall now if the computers on the movies that made those noises were making them because they were about to kick the bucket.
it might be time to start saving up for a new digital camera. i was planning on eventually getting the lcd screen repaired, but with things like that going on with it, i think i'm better off just buying a new one. it's fairly old now anyway (well, in digital camera years), so i guess it's time.
didn't cut my foot open & bleed to death - 08:35 AM
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far out. that was so close.
i just stepped on a drinking glass which smiley left on the floor after i turned around without looking to walk over to the sink. i actually stepped right on top of the glass so that it sort of hurt on the bottom of my bare foot. it tipped over under my foot & then smashed into many pieces all over the tiled floor.
i could have cut some major arteries or something & right now be bleeding severely onto the kitchen floor, trying to hobble over to the phone (which is currently in a fairly inaccessible place until i get an extension cord for it to give it a better place) to call an ambulance or maybe rudi & audrey .. but there's not a scratch on my foot.
you know it's the beginning of a great day when you can accidentally step on a glass with your bare foot & break it into tiny pieces without one single piece breaking the skin. 
that aside, we now have a new (more stringently enforced) rule that glasses are never to be left on the floor.
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