And Yet Nothing happened...

I have no plans to go to Abuja just yet. I suppose I do have a lot to do in Lagos before I should think about it. Yet again I've tried to get this Data Entry system up and running and events have conspired against me. I managage to get into the Project office on Friday and drop off the server that is hosting the database and software. I checked out a few of the pc's to see if they were still working. Some have been stuffed full of internet clutter and other junk, others need security patches and software updates so that means a good day of work on those systems.

The office is generally untidy and various cables and power sockets seem to have migrated and been 're-disorganised' while I've been away. So that's another task to clear up that mess. Last thing we want is people traipsing through tripping over network cables and shutting down the system.

So my plan was to go in on saturday (I got myself a key for the office) and start work on that and maybe finish it up Today. Little did I know then that the slight cold I had would turn into a nasty head cold in the morning. On top of that Dad's Laptop started blue-screening with an acompanying clicking sound from the hard disk. Lovely.

So with the aid of Sudafed: Congestion, Cold and Flu Tablets I struggled through saturday trying to piece together the laptop, but there was no way I could face going out. I keep a stock of hard drives so I had a replacement on hand and a backup of all essential files made the job easier, but a crucial email backup seemed not to make it. So somehow I have to recover the the emails from the almost dead drive which is proving very difficult.

Sunday, I was still feeling bad, but because there was no food in the house I wanted to eat particularly I went out for Breakfast at Pat's Bar, which was not bad, if a bit more expensive than I thought. And then I went to get my Hair cut.

As it turned out today was just as unproductive. I was persuaded that recovering the emails was the priority task, and so that's all I've done today. I am running a recovery process now and I don't expect it to finish till the morning.

I did make a call today to an old friend who had worked with us before including on the phase 1 data entry system to see if she would be able to come in sometime this week. Turns out she can't because she's getting Married on Saturday, So Congratulations to Kayode and Bunmi. I hope I can make it there to see you.

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