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Year View| Summary| Highlights| Month View| Tuesday 20 January 2004 (Day View)

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20.01.2004 – Tuesday 20 January – Jean’s WordPad

12:20pm

• I wake up. I thought Mum was going to town, but she decided not to, so I spent most of the day online chatting instead.

3:48pm

• Jean’s computer has some problem apparently, so I walk down to see what it is. I meet Jean just before I get to her place, and get a lift the rest of the way. It ends up, she’s printing a document she typed, and there are a few errors and inexplicable formatting problems in it, but each time she prints it, it comes out just the same regardless of what she does. She even went so far as to retype a page. She’s using WordPad, which I’d never really bothered to look at before – but it’s remarkably poxy. It doesn’t even support pages – instead everything is one long line, and you can wrap it at a specified ruler width if you want. Her print queue had about 20 documents in it, all in various states of failure, so that probably has something to do with her problems. Over two hours later, which involved such enjoyable tasks as feeding paper into a printer, one page at a time, removing large chunks of jammed paper, waiting considerable amounts of time for printer to return to life and rebooting an old Pentium 2 with 64 megs of RAM.

6:09pm

• I got back from fixing Jean’s computer.

8:34pm

• Shan turned up, dropping off the DVD’s he’d borrowed. He only stayed a few minutes – he and Kylie both looked very sleepy.

4:04am

• After messing around with my site all night, updating and changing things, I finally went to bed.