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...I was going to go out today for internet/grocery shopping, but it's like -20F with the wind. Um. No. *hides under the covers*
- You know, I guess I do still owe you guys a legit update. So what have you guys missed? Not a whole lot, just school work and me being boring and flailing about finals and grades and stuff. Ended up with a 4.0 for the semester, which was basically a small miracle because I fucked up and never turned in one of the essays for Multicultural Lit, so I was sweating bullets on that one. Whatever, it all ended up okay and that's what counts.
- Otherwise, I've just been chilling out, doing some cleaning, watching stuff, playing stuff, you know. I finally beat the stupid tree in Suikoden IV a couple of weeks ago, so that's done. (Reinhold is a lifesaver- basically, I trained with him until I could reliably beat him every time, plus a little. I think Hero was at level 70 or something by then?). I'd rented Hakuouki from Gamefly and quickly determined that it's something I would appreciate better in anime form. As a video game? No. Too little choice and it's really difficult to follow what's happening, at least for me. I'm slowly working on playing through The Walking Dead on Steam so I can play the new episode with my choices intact (and I've read that as long as you've connected the game to the internet at some point, it'll save your achievements and load them up for when you're connected again. We'll see if that actually works). Next up is... I dunno, Dragon Age, maybe.
- I've been watching a couple of random things. A few eps of Hakuouki, which I do in fact enjoy more as an anime, though it's still not great. There are way too many characters that I have absolutely no hope of remembering the names of. I'm more actively working on Kuroko no Basket season 2, what I have of it anyway. For some reason, it's not annoying me nearly as much as season 1 did, at least so far.
- Mostly, at least the last few days, I've been reading. I'm terribly behind in Riordan's Olympus books- I only ever got as far as The Lost Hero, because that's what was out at the time and I haven't kept up. And because it's been so long, I figured I should probably do some re-reading, so that's what I've been doing. I read through The Last Olympian yesterday, so I'm taking a break today before digging back in tomorrow. I love to read, but there IS such a thing as too much of a good thing. ^_^;;;
- My mom FINALLY went back to work a few weeks ago. Things don't seem any better financially (I'm still giving her money hand over fist that I don't really have, basically), but I'm really hoping it starts to ease soon now that she's getting a full paycheck again. It has to.
- So yeah, some of you missed this, but. In keeping with the theme of 2013 being the Year of Breaking Electronics, my netbook decided to crap out two weeks before finals. OF COURSE. Unnnnngh. Sooooo I spent a little under $200 to replace it, which may seem extravagant, but I can't not have a computer at school and I'm NOT hauling my 12839021 pound laptop around for 12+ hours a day. It's not like I can just throw it in my car when I don't ned it. Besides that, stuff in my backpack gets beaten to hell between general use and bussing, and I'd rather spend the $200 now than to have to spend at least twice that much on a whole new laptop in another year because I've destroyed it, you know? It's just one of those things.
Anyway, so the new netbook. I named him Apollo since new lappy is Phoenix. ^_^ It has Ubuntu, which is... er... different. Basically, the good and bad boils down to the following:
Good: -Ubuntu is SO MUCH FASTER, HOLY CRAP -It's relatively intuitive and not hard to figure out, for the most part -Almost everything I need works on it (except photoshop, but I knew that in advance and that's not a required thing)
Bad: -I knew that putting something like Sims 3 on it would be a bad idea, but I figured I could get a couple of my low maintenance Steam games on there- Steam is supposed to work on Linux, and the two games I was looking to install also work on Linux- nope. Steam won't install. Bleh. -I'll admit that this one might be completely operator headspace, since I'm still trying to figure things out. So okay, AIM doesn't work with Linux, fine, I downloaded an alternate. Except Ubuntu has its own internal messaging system which isn't the same thing, but for some reason, once I downloaded the alternate, it acts the same? So basically, I end up with two identical buddy lists and two identical chat windows, and I can't seem to get rid of one without getting rid of the other or it just popping right back up again. It's really freaking obnoxious. -This isn't a gripe with Ubuntu, but with the machine itself- the mousepad is just far enough to the right that it's really obnoxious to type on it, because I keep hitting the freaking mousepad. Annoying.
So basically, there are a few minor issues, but I like it. It beats Windows 8 hands down even WITH the problems. If it wasn't for compatibility issues, I'd say fuck it and switch over to Linux completely.
- I downloaded an app that will keep track of my video games on my phone for me (like the book one and the dvd one), so I can hopefully avoid accidentally purchasing something I already have. Not even close to done- I still have my DS/3DS/GBA/GB/PC/etc games to put in, of which I have many- and I'm already up to 80. I could throw up. Seriously. How did that even happen?
Anyway. This is quite long enough, especially since I can't really edit very well in here. Hopefully there aren't any major readability issues. XD Later!
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D
- You know, I guess I do still owe you guys a legit update. So what have you guys missed? Not a whole lot, just school work and me being boring and flailing about finals and grades and stuff. Ended up with a 4.0 for the semester, which was basically a small miracle because I fucked up and never turned in one of the essays for Multicultural Lit, so I was sweating bullets on that one. Whatever, it all ended up okay and that's what counts.
- Otherwise, I've just been chilling out, doing some cleaning, watching stuff, playing stuff, you know. I finally beat the stupid tree in Suikoden IV a couple of weeks ago, so that's done. (Reinhold is a lifesaver- basically, I trained with him until I could reliably beat him every time, plus a little. I think Hero was at level 70 or something by then?). I'd rented Hakuouki from Gamefly and quickly determined that it's something I would appreciate better in anime form. As a video game? No. Too little choice and it's really difficult to follow what's happening, at least for me. I'm slowly working on playing through The Walking Dead on Steam so I can play the new episode with my choices intact (and I've read that as long as you've connected the game to the internet at some point, it'll save your achievements and load them up for when you're connected again. We'll see if that actually works). Next up is... I dunno, Dragon Age, maybe.
- I've been watching a couple of random things. A few eps of Hakuouki, which I do in fact enjoy more as an anime, though it's still not great. There are way too many characters that I have absolutely no hope of remembering the names of. I'm more actively working on Kuroko no Basket season 2, what I have of it anyway. For some reason, it's not annoying me nearly as much as season 1 did, at least so far.
- Mostly, at least the last few days, I've been reading. I'm terribly behind in Riordan's Olympus books- I only ever got as far as The Lost Hero, because that's what was out at the time and I haven't kept up. And because it's been so long, I figured I should probably do some re-reading, so that's what I've been doing. I read through The Last Olympian yesterday, so I'm taking a break today before digging back in tomorrow. I love to read, but there IS such a thing as too much of a good thing. ^_^;;;
- My mom FINALLY went back to work a few weeks ago. Things don't seem any better financially (I'm still giving her money hand over fist that I don't really have, basically), but I'm really hoping it starts to ease soon now that she's getting a full paycheck again. It has to.
- So yeah, some of you missed this, but. In keeping with the theme of 2013 being the Year of Breaking Electronics, my netbook decided to crap out two weeks before finals. OF COURSE. Unnnnngh. Sooooo I spent a little under $200 to replace it, which may seem extravagant, but I can't not have a computer at school and I'm NOT hauling my 12839021 pound laptop around for 12+ hours a day. It's not like I can just throw it in my car when I don't ned it. Besides that, stuff in my backpack gets beaten to hell between general use and bussing, and I'd rather spend the $200 now than to have to spend at least twice that much on a whole new laptop in another year because I've destroyed it, you know? It's just one of those things.
Anyway, so the new netbook. I named him Apollo since new lappy is Phoenix. ^_^ It has Ubuntu, which is... er... different. Basically, the good and bad boils down to the following:
Good: -Ubuntu is SO MUCH FASTER, HOLY CRAP -It's relatively intuitive and not hard to figure out, for the most part -Almost everything I need works on it (except photoshop, but I knew that in advance and that's not a required thing)
Bad: -I knew that putting something like Sims 3 on it would be a bad idea, but I figured I could get a couple of my low maintenance Steam games on there- Steam is supposed to work on Linux, and the two games I was looking to install also work on Linux- nope. Steam won't install. Bleh. -I'll admit that this one might be completely operator headspace, since I'm still trying to figure things out. So okay, AIM doesn't work with Linux, fine, I downloaded an alternate. Except Ubuntu has its own internal messaging system which isn't the same thing, but for some reason, once I downloaded the alternate, it acts the same? So basically, I end up with two identical buddy lists and two identical chat windows, and I can't seem to get rid of one without getting rid of the other or it just popping right back up again. It's really freaking obnoxious. -This isn't a gripe with Ubuntu, but with the machine itself- the mousepad is just far enough to the right that it's really obnoxious to type on it, because I keep hitting the freaking mousepad. Annoying.
So basically, there are a few minor issues, but I like it. It beats Windows 8 hands down even WITH the problems. If it wasn't for compatibility issues, I'd say fuck it and switch over to Linux completely.
- I downloaded an app that will keep track of my video games on my phone for me (like the book one and the dvd one), so I can hopefully avoid accidentally purchasing something I already have. Not even close to done- I still have my DS/3DS/GBA/GB/PC/etc games to put in, of which I have many- and I'm already up to 80. I could throw up. Seriously. How did that even happen?
Anyway. This is quite long enough, especially since I can't really edit very well in here. Hopefully there aren't any major readability issues. XD Later!
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This has been crossposted to my DW account. You are free to comment either here or there, if you'd like to comment. Preferably here, but it doesn't really matter. Whichever one works for you. :D