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stoutfellow ([personal profile] stoutfellow) wrote2013-03-05 09:30 am
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Breaking Bad

This break week has not gotten off to a good start.

On Sunday, my clothes dryer's motor died, leaving me with a full load of wet clothes. Fortunately, I had no plans to go out of the house that day, so I could hang them around the house to dry. They were dry, but a little stiff, the next morning.

Much of Monday was taken up with a very important but long and somewhat tedious meeting. In between times, I decided to scrap and replace the forms I'd created for my library database; I'd run into a situation where I was kludging to deal with earlier choices, which is never a good sign. When I got home, I started working on the new forms; almost as soon as I tried something, I got the dreaded "MS Access has run into a problem and is shutting down" message. I was unable to get it to do anything from that point on, so I dropped back to a backup of the database - and discovered that the database was corrupted. (When you tell a recordset to MoveFirst, check the ID, and get a response of 1487, something is definitely wrong!) So I have to start all over from scratch, dumping about two week's worth of (admittedly sporadic) data entry.

Today or tomorrow, I need to run over to Sears Hardware to buy a new dryer. I really need to have it delivered this week; otherwise, I'll have to go to Kohl's and pick up some more clothes. It's supposed to snow today.... I also have to clean up the mess on top of and around the dryer - just miscellaneous crap that I've never gotten around to tossing/recycling/cleaning/etc.

Today I plan to make a batch of chicken pilaf (postponed from Sunday, and then from Monday). Here's hoping the Trickster has moved on to bother someone else.