How crashed computers influence sleep
It came gradually, but by the time I fully realized what was happening, it was to late: my PowerBook's hard disk crashed!
It started by my computer starting to have very poor performance, like swapping all the time, even when nothing was going on. But by the time I had decided to make a backup on an external USB drive, the whole thing refused to boot at all, only producing a loud whining sound that definitely didn't come from the speakers! Bad luck for me: my last backup is a couple of months old, so my summer holiday pictures are... gone.
And so are my data!
Shit happens, and wednesday night, when it happened, I was very nervous about the loss when I went to bed, not getting to sleep easily, even when I wanted to be fit thursday for a day of rock climbing. But thursday night, after a good day of climbing, and without a laptop to keep me busy, I took up reading Sean's mixed climbing book, and went to bed early.
I was afraid this would get me awake way to early, and I was prepared to get up and getting to work early, but apparently my body didn't mind the extra hours of sleep at all, so I slept nine (9) hours last night. Needless to say I feel quite fit today..
Yesterday's climbing was good! Nice weather -at last this summer!- and the nice crack of Beez. We focussed on long pitches of a moderate difficulty, as like I mentioned before, this is the main action point in my training. The fact that Beez isn't over protected, and demands some engagement from the climber, was the point my rock climbing partner needs to work on.
But I definitely love rockclimbing during week days! It's oh so quiet then, I think there were less than ten people at the whole spot, which has about 400 routes!
So... I promised reading Sean's book, and to synthesize relevant tips and information for C1sc0. Sean Isaac is really giving very clear looks on things!
I'm adding a separate page about ice climbing gear(in dutch!) on my ouiqi, as of course it's not related to Canada only.
My ouiqi is developing more and more as my personal online draft book, and I am thinking of creating some more general climbing technical pages in the future, which possibly can result in articles in the Bergpallieters' club magazine.
Talking about my ouiqi, and about crashing harddisks: maybe I should put up something to create regular backups on my little webserver too?!?!
It started by my computer starting to have very poor performance, like swapping all the time, even when nothing was going on. But by the time I had decided to make a backup on an external USB drive, the whole thing refused to boot at all, only producing a loud whining sound that definitely didn't come from the speakers! Bad luck for me: my last backup is a couple of months old, so my summer holiday pictures are... gone.
And so are my data!
Shit happens, and wednesday night, when it happened, I was very nervous about the loss when I went to bed, not getting to sleep easily, even when I wanted to be fit thursday for a day of rock climbing. But thursday night, after a good day of climbing, and without a laptop to keep me busy, I took up reading Sean's mixed climbing book, and went to bed early.
I was afraid this would get me awake way to early, and I was prepared to get up and getting to work early, but apparently my body didn't mind the extra hours of sleep at all, so I slept nine (9) hours last night. Needless to say I feel quite fit today..
Yesterday's climbing was good! Nice weather -at last this summer!- and the nice crack of Beez. We focussed on long pitches of a moderate difficulty, as like I mentioned before, this is the main action point in my training. The fact that Beez isn't over protected, and demands some engagement from the climber, was the point my rock climbing partner needs to work on.
But I definitely love rockclimbing during week days! It's oh so quiet then, I think there were less than ten people at the whole spot, which has about 400 routes!
So... I promised reading Sean's book, and to synthesize relevant tips and information for C1sc0. Sean Isaac is really giving very clear looks on things!
I'm adding a separate page about ice climbing gear(in dutch!) on my ouiqi, as of course it's not related to Canada only.
My ouiqi is developing more and more as my personal online draft book, and I am thinking of creating some more general climbing technical pages in the future, which possibly can result in articles in the Bergpallieters' club magazine.
Talking about my ouiqi, and about crashing harddisks: maybe I should put up something to create regular backups on my little webserver too?!?!
Labels: climbing, computer, preparation
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