In other news...
Jun. 17th, 2008 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenAfter a couple of hours' wait in the Whittington Hospital in Archway this morning, it emerges that I might be able to get a nose job done soon. Not a cosmetic one, but having it straightened so that I can breathe through it again, and, I hope, get more than a vestige of a sense of smell.
This may mean that I spent a few weeks with a plaster-cast on my conk, though. If so, I may not go out much. I fear considerable ribbing.
More cheerily, since I've recently got paid, I have treated myself to a new toy. My first new laptop in about 3y: an IBM Thinkpad X31. It's a tiny little subnotebook, but with a proper screen and keyboard. Big bigger than an Asus Eee or the like, but rather more than twice the power, memory and vastly more storage. And yet, cheaper than an Eee. £200 from SterlingXS. Very useful place for cheap end-of-line kit and the like, Sterling. Recommended.
I've also got a rather barking bicycle, on a sort of approval/evaluation loan thing from Tim Kirk up in York, to whom my thanks. One of these:
Getting it back from King's Cross, via Waterloo and a train to Wimbledon, was hairy. I'm a fairly experienced recumbent rider - I've ridden as many as I can get a go on, over 13y now - and I can barely steer the thing.
Alas, it's too big to fit into even the boot of an estateMondeo Jaguar, so I couldn't get back home from Brighton, meaning that I couldn't do the London to Brighton ride on it as I planned on Sunday. Rather a big disappointment, but probably sensible - it needs adjusting for me (I'm rather leggier than Tim, though, given his choice of bike, a great deal less brave). I also need to change the pedals - he uses a different model of clipless shoe to me.
I'm looking forwards to getting used to it over the summer, but it's one seriously scary machine. You're beneath car bonnet level. Not an ideal tool for use in traffic!
This may mean that I spent a few weeks with a plaster-cast on my conk, though. If so, I may not go out much. I fear considerable ribbing.
More cheerily, since I've recently got paid, I have treated myself to a new toy. My first new laptop in about 3y: an IBM Thinkpad X31. It's a tiny little subnotebook, but with a proper screen and keyboard. Big bigger than an Asus Eee or the like, but rather more than twice the power, memory and vastly more storage. And yet, cheaper than an Eee. £200 from SterlingXS. Very useful place for cheap end-of-line kit and the like, Sterling. Recommended.
I've also got a rather barking bicycle, on a sort of approval/evaluation loan thing from Tim Kirk up in York, to whom my thanks. One of these:
Getting it back from King's Cross, via Waterloo and a train to Wimbledon, was hairy. I'm a fairly experienced recumbent rider - I've ridden as many as I can get a go on, over 13y now - and I can barely steer the thing.
Alas, it's too big to fit into even the boot of an estate
I'm looking forwards to getting used to it over the summer, but it's one seriously scary machine. You're beneath car bonnet level. Not an ideal tool for use in traffic!
