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Aug. 25th, 2005 12:45 pmWhew. Holidays are over, and they were rather hectic.
First, there was the Scottish science fiction World convention. My third Worldcon, and definitely the best so far. I managed to see some programming, and had a generally excellent time. Perhaps I didn't meet so many new people, but I prefer adding just a few new friends at a con rather than "stretching myself out", so to speak. Lots of good real ale in the fanroom bar, much appreciated.
Then ten days of touring Scotland. Good weather, mostly, only excellent B&B's, not a single grumpy old lady at all this time. B&B's, hotels, car costs and eating & drinking out each day made a very ghastly dent in our finances, though, so it will take the rest of the year to catch up again. This type of holiday is so much more expensive than a charter week or two in a resort. Being in a car ten days in a row with argumentative and babbling science fiction fans was fun, but I don't think I could have taken a single day more. I'm sure all of us felt relieved when the trip was over. I haven't overdosed on people for a long time, but this was definitely it.
Skye is still the most beautiful place I've been to, and I got to see new parts of it this time.
Back home again last Friday and picked up![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dmw and dalmeny (D&J) at the railway station the following afternoon. (Two Australian fans travelling around to meet European fans.) On Saturday evening some local fans came over to our place for some traditional chilli con carne, to meet D&J, and on Sunday we walked around in Uppsala, finishing with a visit to Café Hugo. They stayed two nights with us, and were the most thoughtful house guests we've ever had, helpful and quiet. Our house will always be open to them.
Then yesterday a hard disk crashed. Bad blocks, and the computer doesn't recognize it. Apple's own disk utility disowns it completely, and a disk repair application I downloaded takes forever scanning it, spending an eternity trying to decipher each bad block. I wonder whether Disk Warrior will be able to do something. Ideally I would like to borrow a copy first, and then buy it if it helped. Paying $91 for a program I don't know whether it will help feels painful. Nothing crucial on that disk, but a number of digital photographs we don't want to lose. And perhaps other stuff I can't remember. Our backupping has been spotty...
Sigh. Well, back to work.
First, there was the Scottish science fiction World convention. My third Worldcon, and definitely the best so far. I managed to see some programming, and had a generally excellent time. Perhaps I didn't meet so many new people, but I prefer adding just a few new friends at a con rather than "stretching myself out", so to speak. Lots of good real ale in the fanroom bar, much appreciated.
Then ten days of touring Scotland. Good weather, mostly, only excellent B&B's, not a single grumpy old lady at all this time. B&B's, hotels, car costs and eating & drinking out each day made a very ghastly dent in our finances, though, so it will take the rest of the year to catch up again. This type of holiday is so much more expensive than a charter week or two in a resort. Being in a car ten days in a row with argumentative and babbling science fiction fans was fun, but I don't think I could have taken a single day more. I'm sure all of us felt relieved when the trip was over. I haven't overdosed on people for a long time, but this was definitely it.
Skye is still the most beautiful place I've been to, and I got to see new parts of it this time.
Back home again last Friday and picked up
dmw and dalmeny (D&J) at the railway station the following afternoon. (Two Australian fans travelling around to meet European fans.) On Saturday evening some local fans came over to our place for some traditional chilli con carne, to meet D&J, and on Sunday we walked around in Uppsala, finishing with a visit to Café Hugo. They stayed two nights with us, and were the most thoughtful house guests we've ever had, helpful and quiet. Our house will always be open to them.Then yesterday a hard disk crashed. Bad blocks, and the computer doesn't recognize it. Apple's own disk utility disowns it completely, and a disk repair application I downloaded takes forever scanning it, spending an eternity trying to decipher each bad block. I wonder whether Disk Warrior will be able to do something. Ideally I would like to borrow a copy first, and then buy it if it helped. Paying $91 for a program I don't know whether it will help feels painful. Nothing crucial on that disk, but a number of digital photographs we don't want to lose. And perhaps other stuff I can't remember. Our backupping has been spotty...
Sigh. Well, back to work.
