Internet Absence

Look, I'm not going to outright say that Mainframe is a finicky harpy who doesn't like it when I jostle her code, but I'm thinking it.

I noticed yesterday morning that processing speed on Torchwood's mainframe was down 0.2% from the norm, and Toshiko wouldn't have stood for that, so I thought I'd investigate why she was running slowly. BIG MISTAKE. She got all annoyed, like why shouldn't she run slow if it's a Friday. Semi-sentient computers have such delicate feelings.

So I spent all day in the server room trying to talk her down off her high horse, explaining that I could make her better. I had the technology! She was having none of it and wouldn't let me log on at all. Very trying. She wouldn't even let me log on to see secrets about us!

I had to placate her with an offering of thumbdrives. So if anyone is down in the server room, LEAVE THE THUMBDRIVES ALONE. They're all that's keeping me logged in! Don't make her angry!

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I was supposed to go down to Bluesfest today to see R play in the jam sessions, but fortunately it's raining and he's tired so I don't have to. WIN. Not that I don't want to see him play, but I don't want to wander round Bluesfest in the rain, in a boot, on a Saturday. Instead now I get to stay in and make pancakes. Mm, pancakes.

Also, I did get to try inarizushi yesterday at Mitsuwa -- I bought a box of inarizushi and crab roll for lunch. I didn't finish it, but it was pretty good -- the inari was rather fishy for my taste, and quite greasy, but the fishiness might have been because it had been in a box with the crab roll. I bought furikake and curry mix at Mitsuwa also, and a very peculiarly-shaped bottle of soda. It took me ten minutes to figure out how to open it, and when I finally did I realised that it was sealed with A MARBLE. And you push the marble into the bottle, and then if the bottle tips over the marble settles back in the mouth of the bottle and keeps it from spilling.

This would be genius if the marble did not also settle back in the mouth of the bottle whenever one tipped it up to drink from it.

So despite the car getting towed yesterday, it was in all a very good day. And today I'm not doing much of anything, so it is also a good day.

Pensive!

We killed a whole bunch of zombies this afternoon, and afterwards introduced Martha to the joys of communal showering (because of Zombie Smell). Martha and Jack aren't in this picture because he was busy helping her get really thoroughly clean.



I am contemplating the fact that most of the hair got burned off the back of my head, but Gwen says it looks like I'm worrying about what she meant when she asked me to "do her back".