Amanda headed down to Somerset on Friday night, so I've been fending for myself over the weekend (and will continue to do so for the rest of this week). She's down for Soul Survivor C: Living Loud, which starts today. Went shoe shopping on Saturday, and bought a couple of very nice pairs. Thing is that having got home, I discovered that the power supply in weasel appears to have died. weasel is my desktop machine, and more importantly, my build machine for ULB GNOME, which I am determined to get one full build of done and out the door before I go to Nottingham. It had powered itself off (apparently), and I couldn't power it back up. Switched kettle lead in case it was just that the fuse had gone. No dice. And I'd just spent on shoes what I could have used to get a new PSU. What makes it worse is that it now (with the passage of a bit of time) seems to matter a lot less, because I got two good pairs of shoes - what is wrong with me?

As a side note, I've had weasel for about 2^1/2 years now, it's based around an AthlonXP 1700+, which I think is now the only original piece component in it. I've had no end of problems with it, and have actually already had to replace the PSU once because the previous one kept just cutting out randomly. I really want to replace it with this laptop for me to use as my desktop/build machine, and Amanda can then have weasel all to herself rather than having to wait for me to finish with it to check her email. (It'll also make life at college a hell of a lot easier)

It's certainly the last time I bother to self-build...