foolfillment: the blog

I lent my desktop PC to my parents when theirs went belly up a while ago, shortly after that they managed to get mine to stop working too, so since I’ve been home I’ve been trying to get it back to some sort of useful working order for them again.
As well as all the hair-tearing moments there have been waiting for it to do things (one stick of memory died so it was fairly slow) I also managed to stick my thumb in the the CPU fan last night by not looking what I was doing. It could have been a lot worse though, it didn’t catch my nail or draw too much blood.

I recently heard about a school where they are missing their technician after he had a similar lapse of concentration and lost the end of his pinky. It makes me shudder to think about it. As teachers we are expected to be able to use all the machines in the technician’s store but we don’t really get the experience while at uni and even when out on school placement I’ve found that none of the teachers ever used the planer/thicknesser or the table saw.

Anyway, on that cheery note I’ll wish you all a Merry Christmas and I’ll be back in the New Year.

[tags]school, woodwork machines, CPU fan injury, Merry Christmas[/tags]

Tags: CPU-fan-injury, Merry-Christmas, school, woodwork-machines

This entry was posted at 12:10 pm on the 23rd of December, 2006 and is filed under tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.