happysad Heroes day
Hooray! It's Monday - and that means a new episode! Joy joy!
Unfortunately, in the world's pattern of systematically stripping away of things that I love and that keep me sane, I no longer have a working laptop computer - which means no liveblogs of the episodes until further notice. I spent at least 10 hours this weekend alone - and probably 20 in the weeks before - trying to build, fix, and otherwise make functional a laptop that I can use while watching television, but despite all my effort and expertise (I am a certified Macintosh hardware technician, amongst other things) all the computers have died, including the one I've had for three years without a moment of trouble or a single crash. I guess that when they go, they expire all of a sudden.
I'm getting a temporary replacement laptop, but it won't be with me until Tuesday, and something tells me that it's not a permanent solution. I don't really know what to do - I have just enough money to buy a better-but-still-used computer, but that's pretty much it; it would wipe out a year's worth of savings, even used. I could always choose to NOT buy a new laptop, and be happy with my lumbering ol' desktop computer, which is in a different room from the TV, and stop being such a whiny, entitled little cnut who wants to live a middle-class lifestyle on a lower-class wage... but more likely, I'll keep trolling for parts (need hard drive; need power management board; need a hug), and keep playing Dr. Frankenstein. If I can build something myself, and it doesn't cost me anything but time (oh, but Time is a resource that I don't really have right now), that's what I have to do. It's the "make-do" spirit of the hand-to-mouth, paycheck-to-paycheck experience; NEVER SPEND MONEY IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO. EVER. That's my life; that's been my whole life. I've gotten by somehow.
At any rate, I hope you enjoyed the liveblog metas; they certainly gave me enormous happiness to do. Gone, now, like so many other things. That would appear to be "life", as they say. Maybe, before the season ends, I can start again.
Was going to x-post to my other LJ, but since I always post the metas on here and don't crosspost since I don't want to have too much connection between my "straight life" (which ain't too straight, but still; fanfic is one thing, but my fanfic is on a whole 'nother level of porn, and it's incredibly NOT cool to quite a few people who I either work with now, or may work with in the future) and the existence of the Mystery Sock and the Ritual and the pervity, it's not like folks have been seeing them there anyway. Used to be the other way around, but I moved it here, once the tenor of the times shifted more to "I am walking away from this show/I hate this show/this is stupid". Ah, life, life, life. Love, love, love. It's a many splendored thing, ain't it?
Unfortunately, in the world's pattern of systematically stripping away of things that I love and that keep me sane, I no longer have a working laptop computer - which means no liveblogs of the episodes until further notice. I spent at least 10 hours this weekend alone - and probably 20 in the weeks before - trying to build, fix, and otherwise make functional a laptop that I can use while watching television, but despite all my effort and expertise (I am a certified Macintosh hardware technician, amongst other things) all the computers have died, including the one I've had for three years without a moment of trouble or a single crash. I guess that when they go, they expire all of a sudden.
I'm getting a temporary replacement laptop, but it won't be with me until Tuesday, and something tells me that it's not a permanent solution. I don't really know what to do - I have just enough money to buy a better-but-still-used computer, but that's pretty much it; it would wipe out a year's worth of savings, even used. I could always choose to NOT buy a new laptop, and be happy with my lumbering ol' desktop computer, which is in a different room from the TV, and stop being such a whiny, entitled little cnut who wants to live a middle-class lifestyle on a lower-class wage... but more likely, I'll keep trolling for parts (need hard drive; need power management board; need a hug), and keep playing Dr. Frankenstein. If I can build something myself, and it doesn't cost me anything but time (oh, but Time is a resource that I don't really have right now), that's what I have to do. It's the "make-do" spirit of the hand-to-mouth, paycheck-to-paycheck experience; NEVER SPEND MONEY IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO. EVER. That's my life; that's been my whole life. I've gotten by somehow.
At any rate, I hope you enjoyed the liveblog metas; they certainly gave me enormous happiness to do. Gone, now, like so many other things. That would appear to be "life", as they say. Maybe, before the season ends, I can start again.
Was going to x-post to my other LJ, but since I always post the metas on here and don't crosspost since I don't want to have too much connection between my "straight life" (which ain't too straight, but still; fanfic is one thing, but my fanfic is on a whole 'nother level of porn, and it's incredibly NOT cool to quite a few people who I either work with now, or may work with in the future) and the existence of the Mystery Sock and the Ritual and the pervity, it's not like folks have been seeing them there anyway. Used to be the other way around, but I moved it here, once the tenor of the times shifted more to "I am walking away from this show/I hate this show/this is stupid". Ah, life, life, life. Love, love, love. It's a many splendored thing, ain't it?