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There was electrical testing here yesterday. I had logged off both my desktops, with an eye to them being trivially turned off in the morning before the RCDs were tripped.

Guess what happened instead.

So, after running around after a bunch of monkeys sparkies — who blithely turned off floors without even letting us know where they were so that we could, as planned, warn anyone to shut down or be shut down — I got back to my PCs, turned them on, and discovered that one of them wasn't coming up properly. The one I use for everything. Some fiddling (including several iterations of telinit 1) and a great deal of (manual) fscking later (the /home partition was comprehensively hosed), I sorta kinda got my desktop back.

Except, KDE lost amost all of its settings.
Except, now thunderbird segfaults whenever I try and look at an email which is charset=UTF-8 ... which includes every single email to come out of the job tracking system. Which is kinda important for my job.

(muttermuttergrumblefeckingshite.)

I've rebuilt a KDE session I can live with, but thunderbird is still segfaulting, and I don't know why. Some muttering online about libxp, unless it's libfreetype, unless it's something else. Yes, I've done all the normal things, including reinstalling thunderbird, and all its dependancies from scratch. Bastard.

Update: mutterbloodydependanciesgrumble. There were a couple of libraries in there which I had reflexively updated while upgrading to firefox 1.5 (which necessitated setting unstable in the /etc/apt/sources.list) which I shouldn't have upgraded. The three likely culprits, which I downgraded to the testing versions and the problem went away, are: libc6, libglib2.0-0, and (the most likely culprit) libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1, which I put back to v2.3.2-1.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, treasure your ignorance. If you do, and it's useful information, you're welcome.




In other news, I went in to check on Abbi while she was being dressed by Mim this morning. Abbi saw me and said 'No Dad! Go 'way!!', so I covered my face and gave a couple of sobs and "Abbi doesn't like Daddy, oh no! *sob*".

Her reaction?

To chuckle, and say "Funny. Daddy cry. More cry!"

Hrmph. :-/

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Sep. 14th, 2005 10:35 am
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The first part of Afterlife last night was spooky, and that's me saying it. The concept of an event so heinous that it causes echoes before it happens...

Mim and I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory last night. I went home early, we put Abbi to bed, said goodbye to babysitting Mother-In-Law, and went to the Classic.
Someone mixed some bad acid in with the sherbert... but it worked. Willie was just plain spooky, especially when no-one was watching him and his daffy air vanished as he thoughtfully studied the children.

We got home do discover Mother-In-Law in distraction. Susannah had gotten upset the minute we walked out the door, refused to be settled, had woken Abbi, and had then thrown up all over MiL. "I told you she was evil," I said, "but did anyone believe me...?"
Susannah calmed down almost immediately as we walked back in the door.
Apparantly MiL had been nagging Mim about the baby clothes and chuck rags all over the living room. Then last night, when Susannah emptied her stomach, and MiL was looking around desperately for some clean clothes and some chuck rags... See? it's not laziness, it's practical.

Then this morning last night at 4:00am, Susannah woke again and refused to go back to sleep. Which meant that neither Mim nor I could sleep either. Even when we got a nap, it was too short to be of any use. Then she threw up all over me.

Blah.



In other news, given that I am unusually chatty, and have been enthused to work on several projects simultaneously, and make progress in all of them, and am sleepy, but not particularly tired, I suspect I am experiencing mild mania. I'll attempt to enjoy it while it lasts, and try and buffer for the inevitable downswing.

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