argh

Laptop power supply is surely dying on me. Actually it seems to be a short in the cord, which is good news; at least the laptop itself is not busted. I've rush ordered a new power supply.

I've been in a dry spell with reading for nearly the past month, just couldn't seem to find anything worthwhile, but that broke yesterday and I was up all night until 6 am reading Varley, finished that and now I've been reading Crowley. I had less than 4 hours of sleep, but it didn't bother me too badly today.

Before this most recent hardware annoyance, I did some random d-i work. The kind of thing where two hours go by, and one has done useful things that one can vaguely remember (or look up in the logs), but no one big significant thing that's really worth remembering.

In closing, I am so dependent on my exact desktop and configuration setup, that it's truely frightening. It's like moving into a house and never leaving.