Today is the day that everything breaks down.
- Laundry machine leaks lots of water. Reason and exact location unclear. All tubes seem attached properly.
- Spokenword feed scanner appears broken, is not updating my podcasts, so I cannot put the excellent latest episodes of TWiT and This American Life into thilo+ or Thilo's Tech Radio.
- Significant loss of hearing due to accumulation of gunk in ear canal. Go to the hospital for a cleaning session, have to do that every few months now. Dusty Shanghai? Too many podcasts? Getting old?
- Back home, find my Time Machine disk having been disconnected somehow in the middle of a backup. After turning it on and off again, it decides that it now needs 182 GB for the next backup, and starts deleting old backups. Takes a lot of time, and turns out to be unnecessary as the following backup only actually took up the usual 4 GB. Rest of the morning having fun with Disk Utility repairing the hundreds of errors that it found on the volume, completely destroying my faith in the validity of the backup.
- Mac mini also broken. Freezes up randomly about once a day now. No crash reports, no kernel panics, no automatic reboots. No problems reported in Disk Utility or Hardware Tool (even after extra-long memory check). Suspect mother board or GPU failure. Erase and reformat drive, plan to reinstall Lion for the benefit of the Genius at the bar. Lion download projected to take 63 hours. Skipping that.
- Arrive at the Apple Store, find the Genius Bar on a one-hour break Does not serve drinks, either, despite the name. Killing time with new iPad not an option, not yet available in China, even though made here. Spend an hour with friendly Genius, who runs some diagnostic tools only he has and reinstalls Lion (does not take him 63 hours). Of course cannot demonstrate freezes. Leave the Mini with them for more tests.
- Bus breaks down on the way back home.












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