Hmmm, one of those days.

First, I decide to stay at home for the day, because Mrinal said he’d come over for some stuff. Beeps me in the morning that he couldn’t make it because of some stuff at home.

Later in the day, PCQuest Editor Krishna Kumar was supposed to come to Exocore to check out a cluster we were building, and to discuss some stuff vis-a-vis the PCQuest Linux Initiative. He was supposed to be there at 3pm, finally shows up at around 5pm.

In the meanwhile, I was at home, with no way to get to office because Shubha had taken the car, saying she’d be back by 3pm. She finally trundled in at 4, and that too only after I screamed.

While I was waiting for her, the SMPS of our newly reinstalled home PC blew in a spectacular fashion.

Finally, KK, who was supposed to come home for dinner, announced that he couldn’t since he had to go to Vellore the same night.

Hmmmm…..

At around 6:30pm, I was back home, complete with a new SMPS in tow. Well, not a new one, but one that was lying around in the office. It didn’t work. I then opened both the blown and the replacement SMPS, and start canibalising parts from both until I had enough to build a working one. It took me four hours, but in the end I had the machine working again.

As you must have figured out, it wasn’t my day.

Harsha took me to task for spending four hours of my time on something that I could have purchased for some 600++ bucks in the market. Except that the markets were closed, and my only other choice was to wait till Monday to buy a new one….

Actually, I enjoyed the “menial labour” of building the SMPS. It wasn’t just that I *had* to, but also because I *could*. It has been years since I wielded a soldering iron for anything more than soldering a guitar cable.

Speaking of guitar cables – tomorrow (electricity board willing) I should sit down and redo my jam outfit, which is still lying scattered around after returning from Allen’s party.