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[27 Oct 2009|07:23am] |
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are jaws supposed to open at a slant? [worried]
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[25 Sep 2009|04:57pm] |
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just had a miserable failure to interact with citylink moment. Blogged it on my bloggy thingy. ask for link
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[19 Aug 2009|10:12pm] |
just because I'm updating everything...
I has a fallen apart tooth so dentistry needs arranging tomorrow, plus aren't ukuleles fun? just listening to the ukulele orchestra of the uk doing their prom on the listen again thingy... and it is so much fun! linky here
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[17 Aug 2009|12:03pm] |
Today I went to pay some money over the counter so the recipient would have it instantly. It’s a bit of a hike to the local branch, but thats okay, I’ll run down first thing monday, and pay it in, no hassle eh?
So I get there, and the queue is long. Not in there’s many people there, in fact there’s two people at the counter, and one in front of me. The two at the counter are doing incomprehensible things with bags of copper coins, and I’m stood there thinking “I’ve managed to get chewing gum in my sole, whilst I’m stood in the damned bank cos it wasn’t there on the walk in!” I listen to some b5 music to kill the tedium.
This music is REAL good.
After a while the manageress gets up from her cubby at the front of the bank, goes behind the security door, into the cashiers cubby, talks to them a minute and walks out. “Anyone need money paid in, should clear in the next thirty minutes to an hour!” She pauses, looks at me, clutching my little paying in slip, “come here!”
“But I have to get a receipt and I haven’t got exact money, I’ve only got £90, see?”
Two seconds later a fiver is pressed into my hand, along with the tear off slip, and she’s just dropped my money in the deposit box, having jammed a hsbc branded card in the thing.
“But I need a receipt!” I say in panic
the machine spits one out, I’m handed that and she’s off back behind the glass… its useless, it’s barely legible, and just notes the number of the deposit, not where it’s going or who to, or anything….
Problem is, now I think I’ve been ripped off, and I’ll never be able to prove that money went where it was meant to, or able to chase it up and I’ve been ripped. so not loving the bank ATM.
edit : amazingly the person intended has had their money, so, i guess it was a manic stupid panic for no reason. Don't I feel really stupid....
x-posted to my blog
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[14 Aug 2009|12:13am] |
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I has a wordpress bloggy thingy. I also has a cyberstalkers. the two are kinda related ^^;
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[29 Jun 2009|04:19pm] |
i've just cut the top of my left middle finger off, and decorated the kitchen crimson. bugger.
also, ouch!
(hey this is the most exciting thing to happen this week beyond buying a nice big stand fan...)
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[24 May 2009|10:55pm] |
[kathy bouncing around like a deranged idiot]
YAY! YAY! YAY!
I can has a laptop recovery disc for this 13 month old lappy? I can has? does not have to send off and pay for the darned thing? SWEET!
no fannying bout with windows anytime discs to reinstall vista on this thing, no panicking I'll loose all the drivers, I just have a recovery disc! YAY!
(can you tell I'm pleased?)
took me three attempts and three different brands of media, but I got one!
next, do I dare use the durned thing, and do I want to install the windows 7 RC, or just flatten and start again on this vista install?
(not loving the vista thing, it's hard to find microsoft update, used to just be in the start area... much getting used to here!)
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[05 May 2009|05:41pm] |
Okay, in due deference to the fact I refuse to install win2k on my old athlon pc, i've been waiting for windows 7 to go to RC so I can see what it's like on my (old, slow, tired, creaky, LOUD) testing box, to see if all the hype about win7 actually knocking vista into a cocked hat is hype or the real deal.
Hopped on the M$ site about 8am, downloaded both copies of windows 7 (there's a 64 bit box I coaxed back into life after a major failure floating about, it's basic, but thats because we scaveneged everything in it into our main PC's ^_^) and had them on the HD by about ten thirty. Yes you may bask in the awesomeness of our line lol. it's 2 gigs for the 32 bit and 3 for the 64 btw
I dug out an old cd with a copy of nero, atually installed it (first time for everything huh?) and burnt those puppies, and then, to be honest, went off, made a cup of tea, spent time staring aimlessly out the window, dashing out for bread and milk, ignoring the huge stack of dishes in the kitchen (I didn't use that many pots since yesterday so don't ask me... they're breeding I tell ya!) and basically not doing anything techy out of sheer embarasment that this new os might be smarter than I am.
the good news is that the OS install is so ridiculously suprisingly easy that even a PE teacher can manage it (apologies to PE teachers) you tell it who it is, set names, locations and bash in the activation, all the while staring at the pretty blue image that when the thing gets as far as failing WGA it's a bit of a suprise.
Yeah.
it fails WGA as part if the installation process, do NOT ask me why... a few minutes of frantically telling the thing to validate online and we're into the very very pretty desktop, which demanded i update windows defender, install an ativirus, and then proceeded to confuse me utterly as I just could NOT find the internet explorer icon so I could install firefox, looking at the thing, it's a lot like the interface and layout for vista that just looks NOTHING Like xp when you're trying to install apps.
First impresions of the new taskbar? it's exceedingly odd to not have the quicklaunch area, with those pinned thingies, but I DO like the bit by the clock which just looks and acts like a sensible reporting and feedback area (your pc is about to blow up/volume controls/info burts)
Initial feedback from someone who's never used vista? it's terribly pretty, but it's going to take some getting used to. I'll look into it more when I've got more than 5 minutes to sit there and complain "so where the hell do I go to get help you dumb lump of (very very pretty) festering junk!"
it's really VERY pretty.
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[18 Apr 2009|08:32pm] |
It has been a really slow time, or quite an interesting one... depending ^_^
Mostly I've been doing what little updating I was doing to twitter or facebook, and stuff all on that, so anyone who still reads this to find out whats going on... I apologise (hi mum!)
Anyway, basically the latest has been my ickle laptop has developed three faults at once. HD failing S.M.A.R.T. can fix but it's £20 for a new HD. OS falling over due to age and needs reinstall to clean up... well with the HD failing, whats the point? Of course these all pale in the face of the screen is wobbelly. the hinges are going and that's pretty much it for a lappy that age (p3 450... it really was old and slow, and just because I could happilly use it doesn't mean that it's worth spending money and time on ressurrecting the ancient ass peice of junk. Plus, the charge circuit failed months ago so that's pretty much it for that system.
So I'm sat on bethy's netbook which she has kindly loaned for the time being.
Other that that, having had an appalling shock last month when at the doctors have a nurse check up, I was FAT (no kidding, I'm now in the (is the one above good bmi overweight or obese?)) really, and truely, so I've started to do a little light excercize every time I go make a cup of tea. I don't know if this is doing jack for the being an overweight oik, but I certainly don't hurt as much doing it as much as I did the first couple of days. And to be fair I've meant to do some excersize all winter and never did jack sitting on my bum so who can I blame...
To the joker at the back who said "Yourself" yes, I KNOW!
erm, what else?
Finally got my durned asthma under controll. It's astounding how much good the preventitive inhalers do if i remember to use them [sighs] beths enjoying the sky+ a lot, and I'm sat here awaiting the public beta of windows 7 because I missed the beta, and it's starting to look like the thing may not be as bad as I'd feared, this and I have an ancient noise generation system (aka my old PC) upstairs that looks JUST like a happy fun testbox
I really ought to update these things more often, but it's so damn rare I've got anything to talk about, since anything i really want to say like "look at the blossom on the tree in the direct light, thats so pretty" really doesn't come over well on LJ as to WHY it was so important to look right that instant.
You know the dull bits of day to day life ^_^
(hands up anyone who wants to hear about the satisfaction you get after doing a kitchen full of dishes you've been avoiding due to burnt on bits all day and washing all the sides down, then mopping all the floors then getting to sit back and having that nice sense of peace and work well done and being able to just relax and feel good about it... No I didn't think so either ^_^)
Um. Guess thats it for this update. i'll try to share the transient thoughts a tad more often
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[16 Mar 2009|08:28pm] |
I give up, I joined facebook.
has a way of making you realise how very few people you know huh...
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[16 Mar 2009|01:29pm] |
why do I keep getting invites from people to be their friend on facebook... I don't even HAVE a facebook account...
welcome to the new spam I guess [sighs]
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[12 Mar 2009|09:46am] |
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I just got a jury service note. I cant cope with this.
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[09 Mar 2009|11:58pm] |
I like PG tips. To be honest, I'm most fond of the asda one cup teabags (round), but I'm very fond of PG tips. been years since I saw a pyramid teabag. However the thing thats giving me the greatest joy is having a cup of golden tea, instead of grey..
Yes, having examined my emergancy stash of economy sainsburies teabags (square) I discovered that although this probably has nothing to do with their ability to pruduce genuinely grey tea, that it's been so damn long tht I relagated the damn things to emergancy "I ran out use" that they went a year past their best before...
maybe that grey thing should have told me something, but the worst is? it didn't actually taste that bad ^_^
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[08 Mar 2009|06:44pm] |
changed the graphics card in beths system on friday. Another day spent staring out the wondow for citylink, followed by a few seconds with a screwdriver, and then I inherited a modern graphics card - an Nvidea geforce 6200 in fact. shut up, just because it was in beths system for 2 years, and wasn't top of the range then doesn't mean it's not a modern card - you can still buy the damn things new! (astonishingly enough, thats true, people really sell brand new gforce 6200's...)
anyway, I took that card, dropped it in muh pc (the big one that I tend not too boot very often) and whoo.... a few seconds messing in bios to disable the onboard graphics, follwed by a reboot to remove the darned onboard sound (that'll teach me to hit "optimal settings"), all I can say is once the card was in and that driver installed, whooo!
In my last pc (tsunami who was retired last year about may due to being an old duron 1100 and her C:\ drive finally gave up the ghost) I had an old geforce 3, but the difference these days, was just wow. it happily ran at a VERY large resolution and at last I can play modern games that require a graphics card. I'm actually current! yay!
which is a very long winded way of saying, I've just found I don't really like playing computer games anymore...
[sigh]
still. graphics card ^_^
as for the rest of life, most of it seems to be spent falling over asleep randomly at the minute. ho hum
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[27 Feb 2009|02:12pm] |
one year and 15 minutes (technically one year one day 15 mins, who'd quit before march in a leap year...) and to celebrate, I've gotten all five of those effing ulcers I picked up when I quit back.
I always got ulcers when I tried to quit. I'm getting ulcers over the whole having ulcers thing [wry]
suprisingly it doesnt' feel like an acheivement. You're supposed to have holy hell quitting. not "oh. right. I stopped" and not notice it other then to tick the odd aniversary of the event.
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[21 Feb 2009|07:01pm] |
Feel all broken in my head, can't get myself centered. I hate the sudden letdown after you've finshed something, especially when it just ends unexpectedly and you just can't re-orient yourself.
In other news, bethy got a nice tech toy, so thats good
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[18 Feb 2009|10:15am] |
just as an aside, has anyone else experienced allergies with the six new flavours of crisps walkers are trialing?
I tried the builders breakfast and my eyes swelled shut... most unpleasant.
still gunna try the hoi sin and duck when I've got a free evening though... sounds nummy ^_^
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[17 Feb 2009|08:14pm] |
today I watched wall e finally. I'll admit I went into this film expecting to see romance in space so bear with me here...
after the *stupid* level of trailers (I hate you disney) eventually we got to the film.
at first I thought "oh hell, this film was not worth the hype, what the hell is going on"
then I thought "ohhh, shiny robot"
"YAY! you chase her!"
after that it's a tad incoherent other than possibly amazed awe at the way the automatons had become people while the people had become automata (which was good and creepy) till the bots gave them back the humanity they'd lost, and huge emotional highs and them tears at the end
Yes even knowing what SHOULD happen, I cried.
and I so wanted to pat Burn-E on the head and make it right for the poor dear.
I was incoherent with joy at the rabbit thingy - PROPER extra feature like you used to get at the pictures! [firm noddy nod nod!]
and when luxo jr got an energy efficient bulb- pure pure squee.
so yeah....
how was your day?
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[05 Feb 2009|11:57am] |
okay, just watched the "revenge of the fallen" tv spot from the superbowl... thats um.. wow. it's really hard to see, but I've just watched dear old optimus "Ill sacrifice myself to get a new toy!" prime gets PWNED... seriously, dig out the trailer, quality is lousy, but I think I just saw the red guy get beaten on by (I have to assume here) either devastator, or the big bad of the film. (it's at the end, you see half a second of primes face, then a very large explosion ona bridge, folled by a transformer in sillouette dangling off the big one). Roll on when they actually release the proper trailer in a fortnight or so!
Movie Starscream is still butt ugly though
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