dinner - Jamaica Joe's

I went out to Jamaica Joe's using my table 52 card on Saturday night with my parents. The weather was a little cool for it. The place is not sealed in, being on the water, but the food was nice. Mum and I had the best dishes; Jerked chicken and Goat curry. The curry was mild and tasty, the meat was tender. Dad's Angus burger was ok but not special. Service was friendly and prompt. Some of the prices were up there with Michels, but there were cheaper options.

Dropping balls

Up to 4 since last Friday.

forgot to let students into a lab on Friday
forgot to put lecture notes online prior to end of weekend
forgot to find reagents for Tuesdays prac till I woke up at 11:30pm last night having just got to sleep
went to the wrong lecture theatre this morning

Its going to get worse too.

Phew!

I got my updated computer home yesterday and the second thing I did was install LOTRO from scratch. I've heard of problems and didn't want to add to them by installing an old version and trying to upgrade.
The download went on all night (12 hours) then it installed directX 9 and microsoft net1.1 and started up fine. The computer then asked if I'd like to install directX 10 and I decided not in case something happens.
Of course, I haven't checked it again since I turned the computer off. Maybe the Microsoft net thing will screw up my computer and it won't turn on again :)


Edit: Ok not quite so phew - playing LOTRO caused my computer to turn off in 5 minute intervals, till I upgraded my video card & now it seems ok for an hour or so & then turns off. The fans do get faster & stay fast shortly before it shuts down (no BSOD, just off like the power went out). It lasts longer when I pull off my lit up mouse & turn off backlighting on my keyboard. The error is power kernal. Methinks the power supply isn't quite handling it. Its not overheating - I've been monitoring the core temp. When I have a minute to spit, I'll check how much wattage my power supply has.

Free Tickets!

I got free tickets to one of the chamber music festival events from Uni and had a lovely night out this week. I learned that there are musical notations for plucking strings as well as whacking the wood of your instrument with your bow. A violin/piano duet (of hebrew lullaby I think) was amazing. The violinist was celebrating his 30th birthday and the music was glorious. There were also some very slow gentle pieces being played at around 10pm - my mother just started to nod off :).

The civic theatre is undergoing an expansion, it looks lovely, but they'd better be putting more loo's in. 3 ladies toilets on one side is not sufficient.