I feel somewhat empowered having decided to buy (another) new computer after my new HP (purchased in March) has proven itself completely useless. It bluescreens constantly even after reinstalling windows! WTF. BOO. It's still under warranty, so technically they could send me a new one, but at this point I would never be able to trust anything they ( Read more... )

This poor semi-abandoned journal! I read the flist every day and comment a lot, so it feels like I'm not MIA, even though the reality is that I probably look it ( Read more... )

So I composed this summary of things that went wrong with some hardware installation this morning to a higher-up researcher...and his reply began with, "Wow. Okay." *dies* You know it's bad when... Mmhm. Also of note was someone encountering me just after I'd failed epically and them pausing to say, "you look tired." Accurate ( Read more... )

Naruto canon has now turned into a fic I wanted to read once. I need to read like 100 chapters back to see what all is being referenced, but whatever. This stuff is of the "SAY WHAT?" variety ( Read more... )

So, 600 years later I finally caved and bought an iPod classic. I have begun my nine days of conversions for the 2,900 files it found (and counting). Skimming the list now I see videos that I am so not going to put on the iPod, like, uh, of the pet turtles eating and hunting fish... *facedesk*

Life is a bit surreal. I am mentoring a straight male RL friend in the ways of fandom by betaing his Harry/Luna fic. No joke, guys. I am all over it with the red pen. Friends do not let friends write badfic.

( RL job and phone stuff )

cindelius (roommate): I looked through our porn magnets to see if one said "clean" on it, but there wasn't one.

True story. There was a totally logical, sane reason for that conversation. Hee.

!! I just got my first set of ToTs. Already! It's not even six! I hope this doesn't mean I have to get another bag... Luckily this place is set up so there's a metal gate (rather than a screen) behind the solid door, so I can leave it open to hear people without just having to leave everything open since there's no door bell ( Read more... )

I'm in a pocket of clean air here, which seems rare. Over half a million people in San Diego are under mandatory evacuation (out of a total pop of 3 million, so you do the math on that--holy crap). The Public Broadcasting Service was lost for several hours last night as the fires crossed a mountain with transmitters, and now it's being broadcast on ( Read more... )

Um. I am living in a state of denial. The fires are far, but the biggest is reported as zero percent contained. ZERO. 145,000 acres, and counting. I am monitoring the situation, but I feel guilty overloading the emergency pages ( Read more... )