I started out my long weekend by having paladin drag my iMac to the Apple Store (look, that bastard is heavy and awkward, okay.) The Genius Bar guy confirmed my assessment that it was the power supply, and it'll cost about $100 to fix and barring other things being found wrong with it, I'll have it back within 5 days. He asked me if I had it ( Read more... )

It has been an adventurous couple of days! The warm weather finally hit yesterday, getting up to a balmy 40 degrees. Of course, by the time I was headed to my friend Wizera's place an hour after work, the rain had turned to freezing rain. I crossed Wacker and started up the corner cut, and then found myself standing on nothing but ice and ( Read more... )

I found my dress. :O

It is not very much like the one that made my mom cry on Saturday, but it is beautiful and perfect for me. I am really excited about it and also profoundly grateful that that part of the planning is over with, because holy Christ I am completely over standing still and staring at myself in a mirror while draped in varying ( Read more... )

I managed to render my iMac unable to boot. (Tech support guy says likely culprit is uTorrent, which I only downloaded to get my Humble Indie Bundle games. Let us savor the ridiculousness here: legitimately downloading files I paid for busted my computer.) I'm pretty chill about this because a) it was my iMac, which has 3.25 years to go on its ( Read more... )

Hi, Dreamwidth and LJ!

Did you know that nearly every goddamn version of "how to install Ruby on Rails into your dev environment on Lion" out there skips giant important steps all the time because it assumes Ruby on Rails is not the first programming language you're learning? (At least every one I found.) I have spent seven hours trying to get ( Read more... )

FFEX Status: 3/11, 3000 words. WTF this story is suddenly so easy.
Dissidia 012 Status: Finishing up the last chapter of Scenario 012
Final Fantasy IV Complete Status: Taking on the Lodestone Cavern~ They have apparently used the DS translation, and wow, the difficulty is dialed way down. Bosses have been an epic yawn, and I'm 3 levels lower ( Read more... )

So after my reading bender last night, I slept until noon. I got up, and the following thing occurred, reproduced here as I said it to Twitter/Plurk:

watching my cats race around idiotically while I made the grocery list. Looked down at the list and saw I'd written "Cat tranqs." Oops.XD So I went to the grocery store, and did not get cat tranqs ( Read more... )

I am absolutely, absolutely certain that 2 months ago when I checked the required/min specs for Dragon Age 2 on PC, they were exactly identical to DA: Origins ( Read more... )

35015 / 50000 (70.03%)I hit 70%! (well, of the NaNo goal; this book is nowhere near fucking done. I am not done the setup yet. The real shit hasn't even hit the fan. and I'm pretty sure some of these scenes need reorganizing, but that's easy to do with LSB later ( Read more... )

So, Smart Folders ( Read more... )