A curse on all your Windows

Yesterday I dropped by one of the little local boutiques that sell house stuff and I got a chip basket for the firewood! Also some adorable handmade candles! I was in luck, because it was the only one she had and it was a bit old and scuffed - she had it out full of blankets for sale - so she gave me a slight discount. And the store was really nice and cozy inside. I'd never been in before, because these sorts of little stores are mostly only open on weekdays, and occasionally a few hours on a weekend. I learned some new interior décor terms in Swedish and saw a near-clone of our cast iron stove, the same shape, but hers is all enamelled white. It was lit, and the door was open! The store is the whole downstairs of a cute wooden early 20th c. house (maybe a bit earlier: I'm just guessing, without a detailed inspection). Big plank floors everywhere and piles of blankets and wool rugs, cast iron hooks and enamel door signs and crystal and china and big piles of baskets and of course, Morris wallpaper, which I still can't buy because it's expensive and the wrong period and I have nowhere to use it, but it's even more tempting when you're touching it.

But also yesterday, my work computer tried to update itself and plunged into an endless cycle of reboots, as some other people have described it. The update doesn't install correctly, and it demands that you restart, and then it says it has installed and wants you to restart, but then when you do it isn't installed. After a bunch of restarts and being unplugged and multiple attempts to simply uninstall the broken update (that doesn't work either), I concluded that you probably either need to do a clean install or go in with admin privileges and delete some sensitive bits manually. I did find some Google results that point to this type of solution, and logic tells me this is how you'd fix an issue of this type in Linux, but I don't know enough about Windows to do that to my work computer without a lot more confidence in how to restore from backups. So I called the local computer company that belongs to one of waxjism's second or third cousins (a descendant of a sibling of her granny who was one of nine) and they're sending a guy Thursday afternoon. The internet still works and my work laptop and the printer are all fine, but the work laptop is without a power cable, and all my attempts to email the groups who might have accidentally taken the power cable have so far come to naught. So I've gotta try to save the laptop's power a bit. It's at 56% now because I had to do some Photoshopping today, not just answering emails.

It wasn't supposed to rain today, but it's raining. I wondered why I saw so many people in raincoats on my way to work!