I ordered new fans for my old Macbook Pro, which arrived very quickly from the US. Himself kindly installed them for me on Saturday, and while digging through the stuff I'd left on the laptop I found a flyer for last year's pumpkin festival at a farm on the other side of the lake - and just in time, because their next festival was on the following day! Here are the photos of the pumpkin festival, with its Olympic-themed pumpkin sculptures.
The fans work beautifully and the laptop is just as quiet and well, no warmer than it was when new although that's not saying much. Unfortunately, when I plugged it out for a moment to plug it into a different socket, it died on its arse. The battery says it's not charging (although the generic battery status indicator says it should be replaced soon but is still fine to use. Right).
The only other news is that I've signed up for my next two OU courses - another short course, about plants and all they do for us (and what we do to them) and a bigger one, made of two 15-unit courses on cardiac disease and cancer mashed together. Being on the transitional fee arrangements meant I paid £300 less for the longer course, although the short one was mysteriously £15 more than the previous ones.
This now means I'll have three weeks in October where both these new courses and my current vulcanology/seismology and alternative to oil courses are running, so that's lots of incentive to get the two current ones finished ahead of time... after that, I just have 20 units left on Level 1, so it'll be nuclear energy and forensic science and then on to Level 2 for more chemistry and biology.
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