Highly Atypical

So, I just watched the most recent Heroes episode today.

Not spoiling anything here except to say that it was kind of disappointing.

I also want to point out the date stamp on this little gem. So now I feel all vindicated-like. It's awesome, in a dysfunctional sort of way.

In other news, I've had to go back to my boring old QWERTY keymap. There's a good reason for it, though, and I'm not going to ruin it by talking about it at this stage. (Besides, then I wouldn't get to be mysterious.)

I'm learning Dvorak again. For real this time. So if you catch me typing really slowly in the next few weeks, that's why. (I remember more than I thought, which is good, but the punctuation is a bitch.)

EDIT: Case in point: my HTML failure. Sorry about that.

+Back on campus. Yay real Internet! Yay awesome room!

++I CAN HAS COMPUTER! It was waiting for me in the mail.

-reinstalling FF addons, etc.

---Rifling through the contents of my external HD... let's see, documents, yes... music, yes... PROGRAMS? PICTURES? WHAT THE FUCK I KNOW I SAVED YOU AAAAAAAAAAAARGH! That and bookmarks.html didn't save right. *gripes* (Bookmarks aren't as big a deal anyway; I'd been meaning to cull them. But my Strasbourg pictures are gone! *snif*)

--Don't say the universe doesn't have a sense of irony. I step out the door of the building to get some of my stuff from storage. Including the box that has my first aid kit. The result?

( Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow FUCKING OW. )

Also, I scraped my wrist (that's the bandage you can see, but the tape sucked so I'm going to rebandage it in a bit) and my knee.

OW. OW OW OW.

+++I wasn't wearing my glasses when that last bit happened. If I had been, I'd probably be paying a visit to the ER.

-Fuck. Videos I bought on iTunes are missing too, just because I downloaded them after my last backup. Well, there goes half of Christmas.

+Olivia wished me a happy Valentine's day today. I think that's cute.

-Fucking ow.

Gah. Can't work in computer labs. Especially when people are being loud. Will type up a fic or three I've written instead. (Probably just the one tonight.) (Oh, and the one I have typed up but not LJ-ified.)

Anyway. I swear, somebody was passing out the crazy pills this morning. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard... I'm not going to go into too many details, but I'll never look at the word "sheath" the same way again.

Also, I need to go into my brain with some bleach or something. Because my mind? So filthy today. (Unfortunately, not the kind of filthy that'll get me anywhere except doubled over in laughter when somebody answers the phone and says "Are you coming?". But laughter's good too.)

To summarize: Yesterday sucked. Today was going to suck less but so far hasn't succeeded.

Naming my computer "Aeryn" seems to have been prophetic: it made it not quite two years before... well, if you've seen the Farscape episode "Season of Death," that's the approximate situation. Without the freezing water or the cryostasis or the crazy!Crichton. (The boot CD should arrive in the mail tomorrow. At least I knew exactly where in my room back home it was stored.)

Also. I said this to somebody privately but want to do it publicly as well: Just because I used to work for LJ Support (also: note, "used to") doesn't make me a slave to every problem you have with your journal or with the site. When I worked (again, note the past tense) for LJ Support, it was as a volunteer. Voluntarily choosing then to go to a page that aggregated people's LJ problems and choosing what questions to answer is a vastly different world from having total strangers come to me with their LJ problems (especially when there's an FAQ with the EXACT SAME TITLE AS THEIR QUESTION, at that). I helped this particular total stranger but plan on ignoring and ban_setting any others who may come by, as well as whomever told them to come to me instead of reading the FAQ and/or filing a Support request. Even when I was a support volunteer, I hated answering questions asked directly to me. If you have a friend who's a plumber and you have a drippy faucet, do you call them at midnight when they're off duty and tell them to fix it for free? No? It boggles me why people ask the exact same thing from tech support as a whole.

(Also. This one is more of a PSA than anything: Yes, I have a Facebook account. No, I never use it. I don't think I even remember the password. And since I never use it anyway, it's not really a problem. So I'm sorry if I don't reciprocate the adds I've been getting...)

OK. So. I'm at home. Posting from my MacBook (♥). And it's not wired up to the router. First time that's ever happened. That's because the problem wasn't so much with the genuine, bona fide, honest to God, real life copy of a piece of shit, $35 on eBay router, but was the router itself. It and MacOS 10.4.9 can't talk nicely to each other. So, we trekked out to the local Apple Store today to buy an AirPort Express. It's sexy and about 1/4 of the size. And it was hell to get set up--not because of the AirPort, but because I had to power cycle everything, and Comcast requires that you call them before power cycling their modem. (Unplugging is good enough for most things, but as Comcast themselves own the modem in question, they don't take too kindly to full-on power cycling. *rolls eyes*

So, anyway. After convincing the Comcast tech that no, all I wanted to do was power cycle, really, just auth me, I finally got everything going. Yay me. /flex

Subeta's laggy as fuck, but then again, it always is. So I'm not worried about that.

Now if only my good mouse would arr--wait a second, why am I using this one? I have a travel mouse in my luggage. *takes it out* OK, that's better. (was using the family's PoS spare.) Correction: now if only I had pants that fit and weren't super formal or in the wash. The only ones that aren't either are in transit between Kentucky and here.

OK, I'm here and exhausted and my computer doesn't want to let me configure it for the internet. Will be fixing that later, or making ITS do it *g*. And I accidentally posted that voicepost I promised private; fixed that. Not touching my flist except for the support and comics filters.

Did you know that on computers with older ATI video cards, you can hit ctrl+alt+any arrow key and rotate the screen? The down arrow flips it upside down. The side arrows rotate it 90 degrees either way from vertical. And up puts it back to normal. (I didn't know until a couple nights ago, when I did it. Totally freaked me out.)


On another, completely unrelated note... can any of you Centre ITS types tell me what kind of video cards the lab comps use?

I chose dance.

Evidently I was wrong.

This time I took the comp back anyway, though, and plan on calling the manager in the morning. Will also be sending a letter to corporate.

Fucking liars. It's a good thing I've chosen not to work for them on the off chance they *do* end up hiring me, so I can rant about them as publicly as I damn well please.

And I was in such a good mood earlier today too...

So. I'm sending the comp in for more repairs today and it'll be up to two weeks before I get it back.

However, I have my own account on the downstairs office comp now so I can IRC and play GW and stuff; I just won't be online as often.

...that is, once this disk is done burning. BURN, DAMMIT. Don't make me get the matches.