Well, the bare plaster walls in the kitchen have been painted with cheap white paint. I present pictures from my mobile phone camera, as I have no other camera at the moment.
Before:
After:
For my next trick, I’ll be finding some tiles I like, and getting a backsplash tiled in, along with the windowsills.
Last weekend, one of my neighbours knocked on my other neighbours’ door, and asked them to knock on my door. Dunno why, I’m not that scary looking (I think). End result was me spending 2 and a bit hours at her house, working on a computer that didn’t want to work properly any more. (I love Microsoft Windows, really, I do!) The culprit that was relayed to me was her son had installed Limewire. She had uninstalled it when things stopped working, but things didn’t start working again.
So, one fix of the browser proxy, one set of virus remanents removed, various anti-virus and anti-malware tools updated and the machine was back on the net. It managed to lose the soundcard driver along the way, and the automatic upgrade to IE 7 broke a few other things – I dealt with those this weekend. Should have been no more than 20 or 30 minutes of work, but I got dinner out of it, and an offer to help with curtains etc in the house. Sounds like a fair deal to me.
This weekend saw the fixing of PSAPI.DLL (which caused BTHelpNotifier.exe to go belly up, thank you IE 7), the fixing of the sound card drivers and the installation of The Sims for the daughter. Installing the Sims was interesting – I’ve never seen a machine complain about autoexec.nt before. Turns out it wasn’t in system32 like it should have been. Copied it from elsewhere on the system and life was golden. My neighbour didn’t believe I could hear the speakers clicking once the driver was installed either. Proved they were working by firing up Media Player :>
Also achieved this weekend – painting of some of the fresh (hah!) plastering (and the process of touching up a house is apparently called walloping in Staffordshire), emptied the pond, chucked pond muck on garden beds, refilled pond half-way. Oh, and a good load of laundry. Also achieved last weekend – got the corkboard up on the wall. I’ve been meaning to do that for about a year now.
