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I’ve been helping a friend with his computer woes – looks like either the hard drive or the controller on the motherboard has died. He’s got a couple of drives in there but it won’t boot and FDISK can’t find a fixed disk. Oops.

I picked up his machine on Friday night and took it down to my hardware supplier for examination on Saturday morning. While it’s away, I’ve loaned him an old laptop of mine so his partner can work on her assignments, do emails, etc. Went over to install it on Saturday night. All the time I’ve been over there, he’s keeping me going with drinks and dinner, etc – neat.

Later on Saturday night, I went into Club UK to help out with their computer woes. Caught up with a few people I hadn’t seen for a while which was great plus got a few beers for my troubles.

It’s all rather like “singing for my supper” and helps me get some socialising in without costing me anything – very handy at the moment when my pockets are empty.