Mostly lemon based

Category: General

  • Meh

    It seems very odd, and very lonely, to not be talking to Trey of an evening. I’ve had a bit of a day (insofar as my phonecall home was one of the more stressful than less stressful ones), and although I’ve done a fair bit of work I’m feeling a bit, well, low.

    Money, being an issue. My mum being really down again, and trying to stress me…. So really, I just fancy a chat. I’ve got all used to my evenings being taken up with talking to Trey. Now I don’t know what to do with myself :(

    Still, I bet she’s enjoying the sunshine, and uh, the absence of ice.

  • Roswell Addict

    My housemate’s watched more than 20 hours of Roswell.

    Not continuously.

    No, she’s slept for a bit, had a bath, eaten…

    I’m starting to worry about her sanity remaining intact.

  • Argh!

    A while back I was given Adobe Premier 5.1 by a friend, after I’d been heard ranting continuously about all the applications I’d tried to edit video. She wasn’t using her copy of Adobe 5.1, and gave me it.

    What a change. An application which seemed to be reasonably powerful, and seemed to work. Then we started to encounter the ‘problems’. Reloading old projects seems to cause it immense grief, videos sometimes rendered entirely as black with sound….

    …and then export. Export. What a fucking lie that is. There appear to be about 1 or 2 settings which actually work; then I find a freeware application to convert the only compressor that works, known as the Fuck-me-that’s-shite compressor’s output into something anyone else can view, ideally DivX (Uncompressed also seems to cause it to die horribly). Except of course, having reinstalled it, the fucking thing won’t even do that for me. No error messages, just the application disappearing from the screen. I thank the lord I was *given* this, because I’d be so much more fucked off if I’d paid. And I’m pretty damn fucked off now.

    I *hate* poorly tested applications that don’t actually work. And right now this appears very much to be one of them.

  • It’s snow^w raining…

    So, it was snowing, briefly. Out I dashed camera in hand and snapped some very blurry snow shots.

    Having obtained some, and a bit of video, I dashed back in to transfer them on to the PC. Due to a moment of idiocy, I connected it in webcam mode, thus forcing me to install the drivers. There was a mistake and a half. My machine can no longer play the videos off my camera. This is ‘most frustrating’.

    And now it’s raining, so I won’t be dashing out tomorrow morning to make the most of the snow :(

  • The Name Meme

    (‘cos I need a break from work) (more…)

  • Oh Yeah!

    God it’s ages since I heard the Xenon 2 – Megablast music…

    Ages.

    It’s still very fun.

    Music is a great tonic for my mood :-)

    Edit: Okay, I had that up too loud. My ears are now whistling. Now we see why I need to live in the middle of no-where.

  • 3500 miles

    Tomorrow Trey will be approximately 3,500 miles away. It’s funny. We’re currently, what, 170 miles apart. That’s 20 times further away she’s going to be. Technically it doesn’t actually make a great deal of difference.

    I can’t see her when she’s 170 miles away; and I can’t see her when she’s 3,500 miles away. And at the moment I’ve got a huge pile of work I should be doing. If she’s not *here* then I’m not going to spend hours on the phone to her; and if she’s on holiday I may welll not get to talk to her online so much, so I might actually get the work I keep not doing ‘cos I’d rather talk to her, done.

    But I doubt it’ll have that much impact on my work. I’m just going to be a miserable cow for 3 weeks, and sit around moping. Heh. No different to normal then ;-)

    Seriously though, it’s hard, her going away. Harder ‘cos we’ve seen so little of each other; I guess. A tantilising glimpse of how fantastic it is to be together; and then a gap of a month. 1/12 of a year! It’s scary when I think of it like that. Anyway I should get back to work; work and ‘reflection’.

  • Ra!

    We got the house!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Woo, I rock.

    Well, actually, kinda John, kinda… really.

    John repaired the laser head off the PS/2 and we put it back together; and lo “disk read error” was obtained. Some time later, as I lay upsidedown on the floor with the PS2 boards and oojit, y’know, um, boards that’s it. The boards and drive hanging over the edge of a pile of junk we (John and I) managed to get the laser power approximately correct (go us, go us, go us, go us).

    However, having put it back together it appeared to do a good impression of having died. After he went though, while on the phone to Trey, I stripped down the poor wee bairn, and managed to locate the loose ribbon cable causing the problem. And reassembled… it worked. It plays DVDs, it plays music CDs and it plays *games*. Rez. I got to play Rez! Go me! I rock.

    And in other amusing news: this is the stooopidist set of directions….. Microsoft…. you’ve done it again :-)

  • Oh, ha ha.

    So I was very good at the training day, I spoke to [Sarah] , without prompting. Aren’t I good? I’m slowly getting better at the not-at-work assertiveness; which is cool. I can be very assertive with people I don’t know, and at work, but if I’m ‘trying’ to make friends it all goes a bit odd. So anyway, I’m pleased with myself and currently think I’m fab. (more…)