October 3, 2010 – Cleaning the Junk Off My Dad’s PC

Just like yesterday, I got up this morning at exactly 10:20 :). Maybe 5-10 minutes after I came upstairs, Mom asked me whether I would help them deliver flyers for Kaufland, and I just said “I don’t know”. A few minutes later, though, Dad came to ask me himself, so I couldn’t say “I don’t know” anymore and said instead “yeah, if I’m really needed there” – “everyone is needed there”.

We got back around noon. I don’t know the exact time, it’s just that Mom said “it’s already 12??!”.
Then I threw myself into building the website. Today I got maybe even more done than yesterday in programming, but the main reason for that was that I mostly just reused code I had written over the previous days.

So in quick succession I generated the code for displaying the pet owner detail, then the vet clinic and finally the cattery. But that wasn’t all. I also fixed a whole bunch of bugs and got updating working for all user entities (pet owner, vet clinic, cattery, cats).

In the evening at 6 I lent my dad my laptop and removed a pile of applications from his PC that my brother or I had installed there, disabled all services except the Microsoft ones, most importantly uninstalled NetLimiter, turned off all startup applications except Dropbox and the antivirus, and then played that stream of the Kladno-Trinec game on his PC for him. But he objected that there was no sound on the TV, only on his feeble little laptop, and on top of that the whole thing was stuttering terribly 🙁 . So I “had to” give him my laptop again, and when I got back at 20:45, it was already over.

The only thing waiting for me was the “Activate Windows” screen, so I don’t know whether it showed up during the game or only when he closed the lid. In the evening I was catching up on my diary for yesterday and today, and of course I’d still like to take a look at some programming.

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