So today I take my sister to school and the cars going fine. Then I stop to let her out but the doors have the kiddie lock on. I lean out the passenger door to open the back door from the outside, quite painful on your shoulder and not particularly easy. In doing so I forget I've got the car in gear and it stalls. Then I try start it again and the engine sounds completely different, as though it's letting out air somewhere, and keeps cutting out. I manage to get it up the hill and park though and then leave it.

I go back in the afternoon to try and get it home and within 100m I cut out like 4 times and find that the breaks have suddenly stopped working. I can't push the pedal down. So it seems something got broken during the stall and has now blocked the breaks. :/ Sigh...

I also got a new master, or got an old master again.  Mew66 Hopefully that will work out. Holding thumbs,

And today was the last day of labwork for my project. Unfortunately I have pretty much zero results but have figured out why. The polymerase I was using does not work under the conditions I needed. I now have three weeks to write up all my 'results'.

And I'm now using Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. It's Linux so all free. :) And actually rather nice.