From bad to worse
I don't enjoy making ranty, depressing posts, but I just had to get this out of my system so I can move on.
The news of Heath Ledger's death just seemed to send my whole day spiraling down the tubes. I honestly wasn't a big fan of his, but somehow his passing tinted the rest of the day.
* I accidentally knocked down the rolling shelf with my computer keyboard & mouse onto the floor. Now the shelf slides kind of rough and wiggles a little more than it used to. Six years I've had this computer desk and that's the first time I've done that. Bah! Luckily, the keyboard and the mouse are working just fine.
* Have spent the past few days searching online unsuccessfully for a way to fix Vista's audio recording problems. Long story short...this version of Windows does not have the proper audio codecs for the normal recordings off the web or what you can hear from the speakers. Grrrr! The word online is it's Microsoft and the RIAA's doing. The only fix? Replace the codecs with ones that supposedly will work, but from what I've read, even that's chancy. And I really don't want to go messing with codecs if I can help it. This kind of pisses me off though, because I could do audio recordings of any kind on Windows XP! Copyright controlling bastards! Grrrrrrr!
I plan on setting up my old computer again, but right now there's no place to do it. So unless I can find a way to record audio online with my Mac (even more unlikely because of less software choices) it means my online audio recording days are over. Sure, I can still download audio files, but that only gets you so much. Some stuff just isn't offered that way. Some of it is streaming only and right now I can't record any of it. Dammit! >:[
* Started scanning magazine articles with my new all-in-one printer and ended up struggling with my perfectionism in getting the images to come out just right. Learning how to use the new printer's software and finding the right image editing software that would save the scans as pdf files didn't help. I spent hours on this. In the end, I didn't get that much scanning done and I feel like the whole day was sort of wasted.
* What is with my Norton Internet Security insisting on rebooting the computer just about every day to install updates???? And it asks me this as soon as I've turned on the computer for the day! Wha???? I know it's trying to protect me, but this is just annoying. Stupid software. *grumbles*
* Somehow even the random music I chose to listen to today ended up being kind of depressing and had a sad tone. I really didn't even notice it until just now. It certainly hasn't helped my mood any. :(
* One more thought about Heath's death...I'm wondering why this has hit so many of us so hard. Somehow I think it makes us worry about Jensen and Jared. After all Heath was only one year younger than Jensen. He was a young, dedicated, talented, rising actor. There were no warning signs, no signals that he was going down a wrong path. Life is so unpredictable and fragile. There are no guarantees. A life that is strong and vibrant one day can be gone the next. I'm not ashamed to say I sometimes worry about Jensen & Jared. But then I often worry about the lives of others that I care about, whether I know them well or not.
*hugs flist extra tight* 'Cause I worry about all of you, too.
Special Note: Deciding to respect the loss of Mr. Ledger and its effect on my fellow LJ users, I've chosen to delay replying back to my latest comments until later.
I'm off to bed now and I hope when I get up things will be better.
The news of Heath Ledger's death just seemed to send my whole day spiraling down the tubes. I honestly wasn't a big fan of his, but somehow his passing tinted the rest of the day.
* I accidentally knocked down the rolling shelf with my computer keyboard & mouse onto the floor. Now the shelf slides kind of rough and wiggles a little more than it used to. Six years I've had this computer desk and that's the first time I've done that. Bah! Luckily, the keyboard and the mouse are working just fine.
* Have spent the past few days searching online unsuccessfully for a way to fix Vista's audio recording problems. Long story short...this version of Windows does not have the proper audio codecs for the normal recordings off the web or what you can hear from the speakers. Grrrr! The word online is it's Microsoft and the RIAA's doing. The only fix? Replace the codecs with ones that supposedly will work, but from what I've read, even that's chancy. And I really don't want to go messing with codecs if I can help it. This kind of pisses me off though, because I could do audio recordings of any kind on Windows XP! Copyright controlling bastards! Grrrrrrr!
I plan on setting up my old computer again, but right now there's no place to do it. So unless I can find a way to record audio online with my Mac (even more unlikely because of less software choices) it means my online audio recording days are over. Sure, I can still download audio files, but that only gets you so much. Some stuff just isn't offered that way. Some of it is streaming only and right now I can't record any of it. Dammit! >:[
* Started scanning magazine articles with my new all-in-one printer and ended up struggling with my perfectionism in getting the images to come out just right. Learning how to use the new printer's software and finding the right image editing software that would save the scans as pdf files didn't help. I spent hours on this. In the end, I didn't get that much scanning done and I feel like the whole day was sort of wasted.
* What is with my Norton Internet Security insisting on rebooting the computer just about every day to install updates???? And it asks me this as soon as I've turned on the computer for the day! Wha???? I know it's trying to protect me, but this is just annoying. Stupid software. *grumbles*
* Somehow even the random music I chose to listen to today ended up being kind of depressing and had a sad tone. I really didn't even notice it until just now. It certainly hasn't helped my mood any. :(
* One more thought about Heath's death...I'm wondering why this has hit so many of us so hard. Somehow I think it makes us worry about Jensen and Jared. After all Heath was only one year younger than Jensen. He was a young, dedicated, talented, rising actor. There were no warning signs, no signals that he was going down a wrong path. Life is so unpredictable and fragile. There are no guarantees. A life that is strong and vibrant one day can be gone the next. I'm not ashamed to say I sometimes worry about Jensen & Jared. But then I often worry about the lives of others that I care about, whether I know them well or not.
*hugs flist extra tight* 'Cause I worry about all of you, too.
Special Note: Deciding to respect the loss of Mr. Ledger and its effect on my fellow LJ users, I've chosen to delay replying back to my latest comments until later.
I'm off to bed now and I hope when I get up things will be better.