Black Doggerel

So I'm sitting there at the computer minding my own business. I shifted my weight slightly and my chair convulsed under me, then tipped me sideways onto the floor. Luckily, there's a collie bed on the floor immediately to the left of the chair; still more luckily, there was no collie on it at the time.

My nice solid computer chair is not so solid any more, apparently. The metal pole between its seat and its feet just snapped. Oops.

Good thing I had a usable spare. Thank you, topbit!

In other news, I fixed my computer! I'd been getting these freakily varied and universally alarming error messages, boot fails and sudden blue screens of death for weeks - I finally worked out that ALL the error messages and fails could be accounted for by the system being intermittently unable to find its own hard drive. Sometimes only for a second, which was making me deinstall things and worry about defective hard drives and/or corrupted operating systems - anyway, I opened the case, unplugged the leads connecting the hard drive to the motherboard, blew on them and plugged them firmly and carefully back in.

That was four days ago and (touching wood) she's had no problems since. YAY!