Topic: What are you Not doing right now?

[xtopave]

Relaxing.  That's on account if it being my daughter's 9th birthday and the fact that the school coerced me into being an accompanying parent for a Science Museum outing (with my daughter's class so I couldn't dodge it).

Ah, the 28 kids in a bus!

Happy birthday to the princess. 

I am at last back home after a day at Manchester University

Was it bad?

[goldshirt*9]

  not bad, just busy driving there and back in a day.  road works and congestion on all roads.
Interesting introductory lecture about Chemical Engineering and what it can lead to.
Nice tour around the brand new facilities.
His interview went well, but he prefers Birmingham University.
 

[smokester]

Playing Grimrock.

That's on account of me finishing the game and uninstalling it.

[6pairsofshoes]

Sleeping.

City That Does Not Sleep
Federico García Lorca, 1898 - 1936
 
In the sky there is nobody asleep.  Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is asleep.
The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins.
The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream,
and the man who rushes out with his spirit broken will meet on the
            street corner
the unbelievable alligator quiet beneath the tender protest of the
            stars.

Nobody is asleep on earth.  Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is asleep.
In a graveyard far off there is a corpse
who has moaned for three years
because of a dry countryside on his knee;
and that boy they buried this morning cried so much
it was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.

Life is not a dream.  Careful!  Careful!  Careful!
We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth
or we climb to the knife edge of the snow with the voices of the dead
            dahlias.
But forgetfulness does not exist, dreams do not exist;
flesh exists.  Kisses tie our mouths
in a thicket of new veins,
and whoever his pain pains will feel that pain forever
and whoever is afraid of death will carry it on his shoulders.

One day
the horses will live in the saloons
and the enraged ants
will throw themselves on the yellow skies that take refuge in the
            eyes of cows.

Another day
we will watch the preserved butterflies rise from the dead
and still walking through a country of gray sponges and silent boats
we will watch our ring flash and roses spring from our tongue.
Careful!  Be careful!  Be careful!
The men who still have marks of the claw and the thunderstorm,
and that boy who cries because he has never heard of the invention
            of the bridge,
or that dead man who possesses now only his head and a shoe,
we must carry them to the wall where the iguanas and the snakes
            are waiting,
where the bear’s teeth are waiting,
where the mummified hand of the boy is waiting,
and the hair of the camel stands on end with a violent blue shudder.

Nobody is sleeping in the sky.  Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is sleeping.
If someone does close his eyes,
a whip, boys, a whip!
Let there be a landscape of open eyes
and bitter wounds on fire.
No one is sleeping in this world.  No one, no one.
I have said it before.

No one is sleeping.
But if someone grows too much moss on his temples during the
            night,
open the stage trapdoors so he can see in the moonlight
the lying goblets, and the poison, and the skull of the theaters.

[goldshirt*9]

watching tv.

[smokester]

Reading unread posts.

I was away yesterday and thought I'd have missed something.  But it appears my fears were unfounded.

[6pairsofshoes]

sleeping

[smokester]

Working. Although I have been all day.

[goldshirt*9]

Using desktop PC. Power supply went squeel squeel squeel .so need new one 

[smokester]

Reading unread posts..

[goldshirt*9]

sunbathing 

[drago6650]

^lucky guy, getting ready for an early night at work for 5.00 am tomorrow.

[brickbatz]

I have all of the parts for my new computer but I'm not building it. I have a video made by JJ from Asus called What To Do With Your PC Hardware Before You Build. He recommends updating the BIOS before you install the motherboard. I have to find the nerve to do it.

[smokester]

I always used to stall the build after buying all the components.  The problem with that is that if you blink for too long, all your hardware is out of date!

[brickbatz]

I hooked it up and wouldn't you know, one of the memory modules doesn't show in the BIOS. I swapped them around the good one shows in the new slot. Called Newegg and they're going to cross-ship the 2 module kit. She said they should be here by next Tuesday. If I would have waited another day I'd be SOL. The 30 day return policy expires tomorrow.