I got home to find
I had a lovely chat with
Also, I did lots of geekery and swapped motherboards around in my machine and managed to get Windows XP to 'repair' itself from the CD. Wonder of wonders; so that's saved me the hassle of rebuilding. Unfortunately my ace cooler won't fit on the new motherboard because of one capacitor. I'm very tempted to resolder it out of the way but it's risky. Ponderings.
Anyway, with a donation of a couple of heatsinks and an Athlon 1GHz from
And this morning, difficult but necessary conversations with people. *hugs* all.
Oh, and
Now it appears I have to go and talk to my boss about the possibility that my role on this project is both winding down at present and also potentially unnecessary in the future. *sigh*.
Before I do that, the main reason I started writing this is because I wanted to write about the weekend and why it turned out to be important.
Before I do that, here is a quiz for your light relief:
Hrm. I think the weapon is accurate but I'm not sure I'm an extra from Pulp Fiction with the dialogue.
So, the weekend. Well,
Well, we went camping, all in the same tent. It was an intense experience -
Unfortunately I wasn't awake enough to realise what was going on, but she wasn't gone long, and when she came back there was awkwardness for a good while afterwards. Neither of us really knew why, but I think we're beginning to understand that it was to do with the fact that we were getting through this holiday together. Never before had we acted so much like a family unit, and it brought new and shared responsibilities that I might have taken on before on an ad-hoc basis, but not quite like this.
Her taking the kids by herself made me feel like I wasn't up to the job of helping her, and from her perspective it was both necessary at the time and an effective way of showing me I was lacking.
Pain aside, we talked briefly and sorted things out, and shared some close moments later with the children both in times of strife and otherwise.
It was an important experience for me, which is why I wanted to write it up and remember it.