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Tuesday 13th December 2005
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So yeah . . . I'm there wandering through the Headrow Shopping Centre (maybe it's not called that . . . maybe I mean another centre . . . god knows), when this pretty foreign lay-deeeeeee comes up to me, "Can I show you something amazing? Do you have a moment?" so, me, like a fool, of course I respond, "Erm, yeah, I guess so." The amazing thing was some weird four-sided nail buffing block thing that made my left thumb nail incredibly smooth and shiny, but I wasn't really that amazed, certainly not amazed enough to spend £30 on the nail cleaning/polishing kit. No, I don't think so. So then Annabelle (or similar) asked to see my hand. I explained I have very dry skin, so she proceeded to demonstrate some remarkable salty, skin cleansing stuff, reiterating over and over again something about the Dead Sea and some minerals or another. God knows. She was from Israel, she told me. Anyway, the stuff seemed to make the skin on my right hand smoother and softer and I didn't have the heart to leave with nothing after all that time and effort she had invested in demonstrating these various products. So what the hell . . . I figure that at the moment the level of care that my hands receives is pretty non-existent, so why not give something a go? I was kind of amazed at the ease with which she got a sale from me. So yeah . . . Perhaps if the sales person had been a man, though . . . hmmmmmm.
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Otherwise, various movements on the job front, but it wouldn't be appropriate to go into details at this point (largely because nothing has been finalised). Suffice to say that a move back to Lancaster is looking ever more certain, now largely dependent on the sale and purchase of houses, rather than the procurement of employment in that area. Something like that anyway.
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Oh, and I managed to fix the computer. If ever the web-site has been down recently, say in the last couple of months, this was probably on account of the video card (or the central processor thereof) overheating (as web server also serves as desktop machine). The fan attached to the aluminium block that is the video card heat sink had stopped working, and so the video card must have been shutting itself down when it got too warm, in order to prevent damage occurring. Apparently Pentium chips (for the main CPU) also do this kind of thing automatically, but AMD don't have that kind of protection, and may simple explode if overheated. Nice. I guess that's why Pentium chips cost more. Anyway, doesn't matter. Video card CPU now has a large fan positioned directly below it, salvaged from a computer I had completely forgotten about, resting under the stairs, doing nothing. So, yeah, that's good.
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