Water! Everywhere!
Well, first of all, I’ve go to set my keyboard to type in "English UK". For some reason it likes to set itself to U.S mode. As ever, thanks to Miss Dev for sorting out my many computer problems. The whole thing managed to die about a week or so ago, leaving me PC-less for almost 2 days! Can you imagine what I did? Not a lot, that's what. But the PC known lovingly as "Old Rusty" is back on its feet, almost, with a mega 4GB HDD! Wowzer! I can actually hear the thing chugging away right now, lovely.
Anyways, the creative updates. Small, and yet again coming from Danny. Scripts for Ep. 1 and 2 of "Friendly Nes" have been done, and he has got a title screen done. A good friend of ours, Adam, is going to be working on some intro music for it. On my part, I'm going to go over the scripts and maybe change the odd bit if I think it needs it, but chances are that will come up in recording. Which will be done by me, Brandy and some unknown female. Brandy and Danny have girlfriends, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find one. Voice recording will be done at Brandys place, so, whenever he is free we'll get it done really.
Now, moving on to yesterday. Well, I did the usual, wake up late, downstairs to check if there is any post for me, grab a drink, then get online for the usual e-mail/forum checking. Check in with friends online, Miss Dev does her usual "gotta go bye!" morning thing, which earns the reply "DAMNIT!" from me. She buggers off leaving me with seemingly nothing to do all morning. But, turns out the Grandparents (of Nan and Jams as we known them, for some reason I called my Granddad Jams as a kid, and it's just kinda stuck) had arrived, so I chatted with them a bit.
After their departure, I figure "I know what I'll do, kick back, listen to the new SModcast (Director Kevin Smith and Producer Scott Mosiers podcast) in the conservatory. Wrong! My iPod had decided that morning that it in fact, had nothing on it at all. Despite it having the full compliment of albums, audiobooks and podcasts the night before. Fearing that it had died on my, I stuck it in my PC to see what it did. Turns out, all it wanted was a "restore to factory settings" an "update" then for me to put all the music, audiobooks and podcasts back on it. Now, would be simple if I could just sync the whole thing. However, with 24gig of music, 6gig of podcasts, almost 3 gig of audiobooks and a 30gig ipod don’t mix for such things. There is never truly 30gig on the thing, its 27.5 or something. So, I set off to do it all manually. What an exciting task.
It seems however, it was the morning for things to break. As I sit with music on, and things transferring, my dad calls "Chris! Help! Quick!". I open my door, and he's running around, and I have to hold a bit of hose into the bath tub. Water starts pouring out of it, like another but of hose right next to it. Turns out, the water system is leaking, and Dad has to drain the tank. So, it's plumber time as "the proper tools" are at the place my Dad works. Fun in the sun.
With that all fixed, plumber gone, and a glass of water in my hands (you have no idea how much you use water until it's gone for hours on end), only to find out I apparently have an iPhone. Or so an e-mail from "me" has told absolutely everyone in my hotmail address book. Well, joy. Turns out I can't even shut the damn account down as it's linked to my Xbox Live account. It wouldn't accept that I didn't own said Xbox 360 anymore. Nevermind.
Well, today has already started, and I'm doing my usual e-mail, forum, IM things. Chatting to Danny and Dev, a potent combination. Miss Dev has got into Super-Heroes in a big way, well, mainly Batman & Superman. So, as she works her way through all their films, I get a running commentary via MSN. "OMG HIS BATSUIT HAS NIPPLES" etc. I think we are going to team up and watch Batman Begins later, as I refuse to watch Batman and Robin with her right now. I've avoided that film since it came out, and I intend to keep it that way. Well, she just IM'd me a good reason..
[12:43] Chris.: *shudders*
[12:44] {{Roy}} - So Fuck You, I'm A Dragon.: THE NIPPLES AND POUCHES ARE BACK
By pouches, she means, massive groin boxes. Great.
Until later, See you Space Cowboy.
Anyways, the creative updates. Small, and yet again coming from Danny. Scripts for Ep. 1 and 2 of "Friendly Nes" have been done, and he has got a title screen done. A good friend of ours, Adam, is going to be working on some intro music for it. On my part, I'm going to go over the scripts and maybe change the odd bit if I think it needs it, but chances are that will come up in recording. Which will be done by me, Brandy and some unknown female. Brandy and Danny have girlfriends, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find one. Voice recording will be done at Brandys place, so, whenever he is free we'll get it done really.
Now, moving on to yesterday. Well, I did the usual, wake up late, downstairs to check if there is any post for me, grab a drink, then get online for the usual e-mail/forum checking. Check in with friends online, Miss Dev does her usual "gotta go bye!" morning thing, which earns the reply "DAMNIT!" from me. She buggers off leaving me with seemingly nothing to do all morning. But, turns out the Grandparents (of Nan and Jams as we known them, for some reason I called my Granddad Jams as a kid, and it's just kinda stuck) had arrived, so I chatted with them a bit.
After their departure, I figure "I know what I'll do, kick back, listen to the new SModcast (Director Kevin Smith and Producer Scott Mosiers podcast) in the conservatory. Wrong! My iPod had decided that morning that it in fact, had nothing on it at all. Despite it having the full compliment of albums, audiobooks and podcasts the night before. Fearing that it had died on my, I stuck it in my PC to see what it did. Turns out, all it wanted was a "restore to factory settings" an "update" then for me to put all the music, audiobooks and podcasts back on it. Now, would be simple if I could just sync the whole thing. However, with 24gig of music, 6gig of podcasts, almost 3 gig of audiobooks and a 30gig ipod don’t mix for such things. There is never truly 30gig on the thing, its 27.5 or something. So, I set off to do it all manually. What an exciting task.
It seems however, it was the morning for things to break. As I sit with music on, and things transferring, my dad calls "Chris! Help! Quick!". I open my door, and he's running around, and I have to hold a bit of hose into the bath tub. Water starts pouring out of it, like another but of hose right next to it. Turns out, the water system is leaking, and Dad has to drain the tank. So, it's plumber time as "the proper tools" are at the place my Dad works. Fun in the sun.
With that all fixed, plumber gone, and a glass of water in my hands (you have no idea how much you use water until it's gone for hours on end), only to find out I apparently have an iPhone. Or so an e-mail from "me" has told absolutely everyone in my hotmail address book. Well, joy. Turns out I can't even shut the damn account down as it's linked to my Xbox Live account. It wouldn't accept that I didn't own said Xbox 360 anymore. Nevermind.
Well, today has already started, and I'm doing my usual e-mail, forum, IM things. Chatting to Danny and Dev, a potent combination. Miss Dev has got into Super-Heroes in a big way, well, mainly Batman & Superman. So, as she works her way through all their films, I get a running commentary via MSN. "OMG HIS BATSUIT HAS NIPPLES" etc. I think we are going to team up and watch Batman Begins later, as I refuse to watch Batman and Robin with her right now. I've avoided that film since it came out, and I intend to keep it that way. Well, she just IM'd me a good reason..
[12:43] Chris.: *shudders*
[12:44] {{Roy}} - So Fuck You, I'm A Dragon.: THE NIPPLES AND POUCHES ARE BACK
By pouches, she means, massive groin boxes. Great.
Until later, See you Space Cowboy.