Weekend disasters and other things
Mar. 9th, 2008 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI fired up a torrent client this weekend and downloaded a big whacking quantity of music from Rush. Between ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atara and me we own most of these tunes, but this was easier than digging out the CDs and ripping them from scratch. As you can see in my details, I'm listening to la Villa Strangiato. While this is one of the band's lesser-known songs, this instrumental piece carries a lot of memories for me. My most vivid memory involves sitting in a friend's Impala in a McDonalds parking lot, eating cheeseburgers and listening to this song over the new car stereo we had wired in earlier that day. We had the volume cranked to 11 and naturally we were quite stoned at the time. Ah, fun.
Today was not a good day to be glassware in theplonq household. With the assistance of a cat, I managed to knock one of my good Martini glasses off my computer desk. The glass survived the initial fall, but it bounced off the carpet and shattered against the metal leg of my computer desk. I said the requisite epithets, picked up the larger pieces and fetched the vacuum to pick up the rest. As I was cleaning up the small bits, I bumped the desk with the hose and another glass (a small scotch glass this time) that I hadn't noticed toppled off the desk and landed on the top of my computer. Naturally it exploded on contact.
As bad as this was, it was made worse by the fact that my computer has a large fan on top, and pieces of the glass fell into the fan. This resulted in the wonderfully horrifying sound of glass bits being chewed into smaller bits as they fell into the blades and flew around inside my computer case. Could it get worse? While this would normally be cause enough for concern, I think that I have mentioned in an earlier post here that my computer is liquid cooled...
Fortunately no permanent damage seems to have been done to the computer, but I lost two of my favourite drinking glasses in one shot.
atara and me we own most of these tunes, but this was easier than digging out the CDs and ripping them from scratch. As you can see in my details, I'm listening to la Villa Strangiato. While this is one of the band's lesser-known songs, this instrumental piece carries a lot of memories for me. My most vivid memory involves sitting in a friend's Impala in a McDonalds parking lot, eating cheeseburgers and listening to this song over the new car stereo we had wired in earlier that day. We had the volume cranked to 11 and naturally we were quite stoned at the time. Ah, fun.Today was not a good day to be glassware in the
plonq household. With the assistance of a cat, I managed to knock one of my good Martini glasses off my computer desk. The glass survived the initial fall, but it bounced off the carpet and shattered against the metal leg of my computer desk. I said the requisite epithets, picked up the larger pieces and fetched the vacuum to pick up the rest. As I was cleaning up the small bits, I bumped the desk with the hose and another glass (a small scotch glass this time) that I hadn't noticed toppled off the desk and landed on the top of my computer. Naturally it exploded on contact.As bad as this was, it was made worse by the fact that my computer has a large fan on top, and pieces of the glass fell into the fan. This resulted in the wonderfully horrifying sound of glass bits being chewed into smaller bits as they fell into the blades and flew around inside my computer case. Could it get worse? While this would normally be cause enough for concern, I think that I have mentioned in an earlier post here that my computer is liquid cooled...
Fortunately no permanent damage seems to have been done to the computer, but I lost two of my favourite drinking glasses in one shot.
