Tell me, flist (names, music, programs)
Mar. 18th, 2008 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
minxyGood stuff:
My computer is home! And upgraded! And it totally didn't recognize me at first, but now I've upgraded to Leopard, installed my housemate's pirated versions of key programs and copied over my (rather brilliantly recently backed up) music and photo files.
Yay updated programs everywhere!
Having been through so much with my computer, I really feel like it needs it's own identity apart from mine (I'd named the hard drive Minx, and as we know, the hard drive is gone now.) So what do we call this new version? This Minx-computer-rising?
[Poll #1156656]
Right. So I lost all the music I'd downloaded in since mid-February, and if anyone were to, say, give me a link to a download of their favorite, not-to-be-missed, this-makes-all-my-mix-playlists-ever song, or album, I think there might be cookies in it for you. Or if you just have a link to recent mixes you've announced, I'd love that too.
Not computer related:
This weekend I'm heading home, due to a bad bad very bad turn in my Grandmother's state. It actually might be better stated as a change of opinion on whether she was appropriately advocating for herself through all the fatigue and the dementia etc. Poor woman, she self-medicates through routine and this is just going to be so hard. I'll see her though, and we'll talk about knitting, and she'll smile and smile and serve up a whole plate of happy denial and I'll love her as much as I can in the time allowed.
I spoke to my brother in advance of arriving in Portland and laughed a lot. I love that guy.
I went out yesterday and am paying for it today in fatigue. Owwwwwwww, I *like* sleep, dammit! Why is it fun laughter type behavior always has to compete with sleep? I want to have my cake and sleep it off in a food coma too! Is that too much to ask?
I tried to buy the Stargate movie this weekend and was chatted up by a scifi fan who worked in the store. Apparently I don't *look* like a scifi fan, which is news to me. I mean, that's like saying your hands don't look feminine when you're a girl. I AM, people. I like SciFi therefore... He was entertaining.
Immediately after leaving the Movie shop (sans Stargate DVD, incidently. All of the little city has sold out! Woe! Maybe I'll buy it online or something,) I met a chronically charming man in the line at Trader Joes (slight German lilt, probably in his early 70s). He crossed ahead of me to get chocolate, ended up giving me a quarter of it and we talked about our fields since he's a professor emertus at my Uni. I described my field as 'biochemistry', and myself as 'newly minted', which I feel was both accurate and precise, really. He said his field was love, laughed at himself and clarified that he meant French Literature.
Terrifying, certainly. It's so entertaining to meet people who simply must charm, don't you think? I wonder what happens to them on days when they feel dull. I suspect it's a situation involving dark matter and anti-gravity.
My least competent minion has allowed four computers (FOUR) to fall into stages of disrepair due to neglect. One computer lost a monitor and some preferences settings with a power outage months ago, another is 7 years old and on it's last legs, two others are so badly virus infected the whole system on one had to be reinstalled (the other we might still lose). She's throwing blame, it's ridiculous, and I don't feel like another political mess just as the last was sorting itself out a bit. I'll deal, though. I should make sure I get some sleep tonight first, of course.
Woe for my advanced age and crazy sports habit making me feel a lack of sleep so keenly. Woe, I say!
I go home Thursday. This is so gleeful. My computer is back and faster and I think I have installed 80% of the programs I can't live without.
I'm still thinking of auditioning some new IM clients, though; anyone have one they really *like*? What about other software? Anything you would recommend? Talk to me about tools that work for you, my people.
My computer is home! And upgraded! And it totally didn't recognize me at first, but now I've upgraded to Leopard, installed my housemate's pirated versions of key programs and copied over my (rather brilliantly recently backed up) music and photo files.
Yay updated programs everywhere!
Having been through so much with my computer, I really feel like it needs it's own identity apart from mine (I'd named the hard drive Minx, and as we know, the hard drive is gone now.) So what do we call this new version? This Minx-computer-rising?
[Poll #1156656]
Right. So I lost all the music I'd downloaded in since mid-February, and if anyone were to, say, give me a link to a download of their favorite, not-to-be-missed, this-makes-all-my-mix-playlists-ever song, or album, I think there might be cookies in it for you. Or if you just have a link to recent mixes you've announced, I'd love that too.
Not computer related:
This weekend I'm heading home, due to a bad bad very bad turn in my Grandmother's state. It actually might be better stated as a change of opinion on whether she was appropriately advocating for herself through all the fatigue and the dementia etc. Poor woman, she self-medicates through routine and this is just going to be so hard. I'll see her though, and we'll talk about knitting, and she'll smile and smile and serve up a whole plate of happy denial and I'll love her as much as I can in the time allowed.
I spoke to my brother in advance of arriving in Portland and laughed a lot. I love that guy.
I went out yesterday and am paying for it today in fatigue. Owwwwwwww, I *like* sleep, dammit! Why is it fun laughter type behavior always has to compete with sleep? I want to have my cake and sleep it off in a food coma too! Is that too much to ask?
I tried to buy the Stargate movie this weekend and was chatted up by a scifi fan who worked in the store. Apparently I don't *look* like a scifi fan, which is news to me. I mean, that's like saying your hands don't look feminine when you're a girl. I AM, people. I like SciFi therefore... He was entertaining.
Immediately after leaving the Movie shop (sans Stargate DVD, incidently. All of the little city has sold out! Woe! Maybe I'll buy it online or something,) I met a chronically charming man in the line at Trader Joes (slight German lilt, probably in his early 70s). He crossed ahead of me to get chocolate, ended up giving me a quarter of it and we talked about our fields since he's a professor emertus at my Uni. I described my field as 'biochemistry', and myself as 'newly minted', which I feel was both accurate and precise, really. He said his field was love, laughed at himself and clarified that he meant French Literature.
Terrifying, certainly. It's so entertaining to meet people who simply must charm, don't you think? I wonder what happens to them on days when they feel dull. I suspect it's a situation involving dark matter and anti-gravity.
My least competent minion has allowed four computers (FOUR) to fall into stages of disrepair due to neglect. One computer lost a monitor and some preferences settings with a power outage months ago, another is 7 years old and on it's last legs, two others are so badly virus infected the whole system on one had to be reinstalled (the other we might still lose). She's throwing blame, it's ridiculous, and I don't feel like another political mess just as the last was sorting itself out a bit. I'll deal, though. I should make sure I get some sleep tonight first, of course.
Woe for my advanced age and crazy sports habit making me feel a lack of sleep so keenly. Woe, I say!
I go home Thursday. This is so gleeful. My computer is back and faster and I think I have installed 80% of the programs I can't live without.
I'm still thinking of auditioning some new IM clients, though; anyone have one they really *like*? What about other software? Anything you would recommend? Talk to me about tools that work for you, my people.