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Bits, bytes, and afk-ness
Apr. 18th, 2012 02:31 amMadman, my desktop and primary computer, is suffering from what appears to be a dying hard drive (don't worry, I pulled a full backup at first sign, and have since been not putting new stuff on him). He is sort of usable, but the "sort of" involves random reboots, a worrying scandisk, not being able to clear the "scan me now", not really being able to run more than one memory-hog program at a time (and both Firefox and Trillian are memory hogs), and periodic freezing.
Happily, I have my laptop.
This has been affecting my IRC presence, which is both volunteer duties and social life. I feel very weird and not-present.
Work is progressing nicely. There are preparations for things, which is resulting in a half-ton of busy, with random spreadsheets. (Getting quotes from various places about various things results in me slamming together spreadsheets just to keep track of who's asked what.)
A co-worker had a garage sale, and I wound up with an old TiVo that was last active sometime in late winter '08, to judge by the recorded stuff. The guys (and I have been trying to convert "the boys" into "the guys", given that JD is actually starting to photograph like an adult from time to time now) handed me down their old TV. So now I'm actually starting to catch up on certain forms of TV.
I have not yet named the TiVo.
Wednesday night, I hit a pothole at highway speeds. Thursday evening, I noticed a weird clunking (not, as the auto shop person wrote it down, a "clicking") coming from under the car, more notable by feel in the seat than by ear. Intermittent. Correlated with cornering, right, and sharply. However, when I (finally) dragged him in on Saturday (and picked him up Tuesday (today) morning) they could find nothing actually causing that. Have not heard/felt it since. Weird.
I did work out the bus that gets me to and from the auto shop, though, which is good. I also sat down tonight with bus schedules for three (to five) routes, and a set of highlighters, and went through and rainbowed the times and connections. Purple is the first possible. Red is the last possible (or last sensible). It still does take getting up at 5am to hit work at 9am if I'm taking the bus the whole way.
The flist gives me rumors that the scissors (LJ's latest and "greatest" thing) will be going. I will believe it when I see it. (Or maybe I won't see it, as the magic of people who know CSS has fixed that in my style.)
So tired.
Happily, I have my laptop.
This has been affecting my IRC presence, which is both volunteer duties and social life. I feel very weird and not-present.
Work is progressing nicely. There are preparations for things, which is resulting in a half-ton of busy, with random spreadsheets. (Getting quotes from various places about various things results in me slamming together spreadsheets just to keep track of who's asked what.)
A co-worker had a garage sale, and I wound up with an old TiVo that was last active sometime in late winter '08, to judge by the recorded stuff. The guys (and I have been trying to convert "the boys" into "the guys", given that JD is actually starting to photograph like an adult from time to time now) handed me down their old TV. So now I'm actually starting to catch up on certain forms of TV.
I have not yet named the TiVo.
Wednesday night, I hit a pothole at highway speeds. Thursday evening, I noticed a weird clunking (not, as the auto shop person wrote it down, a "clicking") coming from under the car, more notable by feel in the seat than by ear. Intermittent. Correlated with cornering, right, and sharply. However, when I (finally) dragged him in on Saturday (and picked him up Tuesday (today) morning) they could find nothing actually causing that. Have not heard/felt it since. Weird.
I did work out the bus that gets me to and from the auto shop, though, which is good. I also sat down tonight with bus schedules for three (to five) routes, and a set of highlighters, and went through and rainbowed the times and connections. Purple is the first possible. Red is the last possible (or last sensible). It still does take getting up at 5am to hit work at 9am if I'm taking the bus the whole way.
The flist gives me rumors that the scissors (LJ's latest and "greatest" thing) will be going. I will believe it when I see it. (Or maybe I won't see it, as the magic of people who know CSS has fixed that in my style.)
So tired.
