This should be a happy blog. I finally fixed my PeeCee:

• April 2007
• Janary 2007
• January 2007, the previous day
• August 2006
• October 2005 !!!

Well, OK. “finally” is a little optimistic at this stage, but I spent an evening researching bits, made sure I avoided a VIA chipset, got a motherboard whose chipset matched the graphics card’s chipset, bought it as a bundle, so the tricky really static-sensitive parts all fitted… and £300 later I have a working PeeCee. Well, it’s effectively a new PeeCee in the old case.

Then of course I had to tell the SO that I had spent this money. She took it rather well considering how I’ve been banging on about how we can’t afford anything ever in the known future ever. So now everything hangs on this PC (a) working (b) lasting for a few years and (c) coming in useful (in a feminine perspective. playing computer games and writing websites does not count).

So there I was last night tinkering at it, and my (female) housemate gets home.

“Hi, how’s it going?”

“Yeah, not bad, I FINALLY got this computer fixed so I’m pretty chuffed!”

“Great! So you can sell it now then?”

“No I’m keeping it.”

“But haven’t you already got a computer?” (pointing at the Mac)

I’m beginning to suspect they have been conferring.