kittydesade | (no subject)

Пусть даже у нас не принято требовать отгулы.
-Спасибо, шеф, - с чувством сказал я. Отлепился от кресла, отложив недочитанную книжку. Потянулся.
И тележон зазвонил снова.
Конечно, с Гесера станется позвонить и сказать «пожалуйста». Но уж это точно станет фиглярством!

Even though asking for time off wasn't something we did.
"Thanks, boss," I said with real feeling. I detached myself from the armchair, put the book down I hadn't finished, and stretched.
And then the phone rang again.
Of course, it would have been just like Gesar to ring and say "you're welcome!" But that definitely would have been cheap clowning.

So, my computer spontaneously shut itself down last night. The keyboard went haywire and non-responsive, and everything started trying to shut down. It stopped when I hit "cancel" when the "these programs are impeding shut down" window popped up, but that was the only way I could stop it. I couldn't even make the keyboard work to boot up in or out of safe mode, which really freaked me out. And then again this morning, although this time I cancelled the shutdown and installed updates in case one was really being persnickity. And I ran AVG virus scan, which came up empty, and other than that I've got nothing.

This is a bad time for you to be freaking out on me, computer. I'm just saying. Of all the times you could have picked, this is definitely one of the worst. I already nearly had a breakdown over money this morning while on my walk. This after my aunt offered to float us a loan and knowing that my grandfather would probably just flat out give us money if I really asked. Which reminds me that I need to write to him again and let him know it's almost done. Also that I need to scan in some docs today.

Of course, then it crapped out AGAIN. In the middle of trying to scan the documents. Then I went to work nearly in tears. Then the boy came home with a new keyboard, plugged it in, scanned his chunk of documents, everything seems to work, so it was one or some combination or all of updating, rolling back to a restore point, replacing the keyboard, and cleaning out the hardware.

I'm just going to go ahead and post this now while everything still works, while I still remember it's here, and hopefully someone will remind me to go back and parse the Russian later today.