Well, shit.
Instead of readying for my course exam like crazy, I once again poked at my keyboard in an attempt to get another story out.
Maybe you do, but perhaps you don't know, that me updating became somewhat of a rarity these times, and I have two good reasons. First one is, I have the exam and *derp* sessions. Whodda thunk that being a masseuse can be so very exhausting? Not me, that's for certain. Second one, and more important, is that MHB had to say to her router goodbye, courtesy of her parents' carelessness... I know that the older generation isn't particularly tech savvy, but to damage a router.../stares/. Well, suffice to say, it ain't pretty, no matter from what angle you are looking at the deed. Myself, I more or less destroyed one too, but that was courtesy of unprotected wires on the router than anything else, and my carelessness with moving the laptop. I didn't have my own laptop then, and I had been working on some ancient lappy that still demanded router and all that, so the disaster was more or less unenviable. Still. Ouch, ouch and ouch.
Back to the story, this time it's another of the Scrapbook Jewels, this time it's Aim To Misbehave,
the courtesy of my nagging beta whining for her Christmas present and my brain-fart, courtesy of Mal's legendary phrase and his floral bonnet /snickers/. Anyway, did the thing - found it by chance on my driver and got around to editing it - and I am seriously thinking about getting an editor for this kind of shit, because I still get some mistakes sometimes in stories, just because I am not attentive enough on the wording and the likes.
Still got a reality check in the shape of my mom that wanted to know how goes the writing of my thesis. /Whistles innocently/. What thesis? But still, I am on an unofficial schedule to get the darned thing done with the deadline of of the end of February, and hopefully with a colleague to check over the little monster and me doing the practical work, I will manage to do it quite thoroughly /slumped shoulders/. Although I got to admit I don't know where's the head and where's the tail of the entire damned thing, because it's so humongous. Seems I will have some work to do to shape it into mean and lean piece of thesis that would steamroll the professors' opinions and questions into dust. /Sigh/.
On the laptop side, I finally got the outer shell for my drive - in my last post I wrote about me swapping the drive - the old one went out for SSD, however I still need the former, because having additional place for saving data and songs is never bad idea... if you have appropriate outer shell for it, of course. I briefly entertained the thought of outfitting my previous 1 TB disk with an outer shell, but discarded the idea because the outer shell for 2,5 disk is cheaper than 3,5 and besides, I still have enough place for anything and everything my crazy mind needs to save on the laptop drive, outer drive, USB key or CD-R - and I am thankful I have enough of the media to actually save the data on. Now if I could get the attic straightened up /mumbles/... There is where the majority of my paper-backed data is and I really gotta get it in order, because it's a nuisance that is cluttering the otherwise innocent place. So, one of my projects for summer is to clean up the place and get some money out of it. And space, don't forget the space /maniac grin/.
Right-oh. And I have another maniac plotdragon on my proverbial tail.... courtesy of the Eiffel 65 song, Another Race . /Twitches/. As if I don't have enough of''em. This time, it's FFVII fandom, and really, this is getting ridiculous. I already have a small mountain of 'em to burn through... and at this rate I really have to find some notebook to keep the track of all the ideas I have.
Now, where to find something with more than 200 blank A4 pages...? /ruffles through the assorted notebooks/
Wish me luck for the exam and see you (hopefully!) soon,
Eirenei
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Green Eyes And Further Drive Stuff
I am jealous.
No, really. Today, I found out that my cousin will defend her thesis tomorrow, and while I have my thesis in works - I am almost at the end, I just lack the presentation of the questionnaire's results - she already defended Sociology, and tomorrow, she will defend Geography - yes, she chose two courses to do, and what's more, she's expecting a kid at the beginning of February. A little girl, I am told, and there's a big chance she would be Aries by horoscope /snickers/... then poor her. I am Aries too, and I am incredibly stubborn and driven - whatever it takes. I am still on my thesis, and really, it scares me a little, because it's... so... big. I'm not kidding, because it already has some 64 pages, and I suspect it will, when finished, be over 100 - which is already a prerequisite for a magisterial degree. I really pity the beta who will have to get through all the stuff, because even if it isn't most boring reading in the world, it's certainly a little difficult - I went through many of the fields - Medicine, Logistics, Physics.../sweatdrops/. However, it's also true it took me three years to write it up to the shape it is today - I began in my second last year of school, continued another year, because of questionnaire style, and the third year was just because I fucked up and lost almost half of the already written material via faulty disk, and had to begin anew. Gee, ain't I lucky? /sarcastic/. Let's cross the finger the thing will be done and over with properly, as I am aiming for the highest scores possible, both for the thesis and the defense of thesis.
Anyway, I wish my cousin good luck with the defense. I will root for you.... just a little .
Now, continuing on the SSD drive. In the last post, I mentioned I switched my ordinary drive with a SSD one, got a whole host of programs working and was happy with the speed. However, it baffled me that in the evenings, the drive was as lazy as ever, and I set on finding on what was wrong. The chewing out of the disk courtesy of Zone Alarm Antivirus did nothing, but then I remembered I had to upload a whole heck of a updates for Windows 7 - I think it was something of a 127 - and I set on kicking the updating program in the question in order. I deleted the appropriate files, bit the uploading program for a time, and then uploaded both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro and Tune Up Utilities 2013. For those not familiar with the two programs, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro is a program that chomps on any malware or bad code that dares to enter your computer or laptop and crunches 'em in smithereens. I had Spybot Search&Destroy before, and while it does it's job (and it's free), Malwarebytes does the same job, without snatching too much of a memory resources, and it discovers some of the more clever bits that Spybot S&D may have overlooked. I used Malwarebytes when I had the trouble with the SweetIM, and it had done it's part brilliantly. So it's a good thing to have it uploaded on laptop or computer and occasionally check the disk for anything that made hiccups in otherwise smooth working of programs. As for Tune Up Utilities 2013, the name tells all - it's a number of tools or utilities that help you tune up your lil' beastie - for example, clean up registry, straighten up - metaphorically speaking- your disk, and so on. And it also has automatic maintenance of the overall program, so you don't need to be obsessive about checking everything every Saturday or something similar. The end result? My program stopped being so darned stubborn and performed as it should - fast, silent and without any hiccups it may have had before. Yay.
On the 'mom' front, it pisses and confuses the pants off of me how she can't use the Firefox browser, or better, she doesn't have a clue how to navigate the sites. /Sweatdrops/. Really. What has she done at that computer/laptop course, then? or maybe I am just too used to the workings of the computers and laptops and thus a mite bit worse teacher that I would have liked to be to her. Well, we'll see how it goes.
Also, continuing with writing fanfiction. Checked some of my older works, now doing Fire And Ice next chapter, as Among The Hawks And Doves plotdragons suddenly screeched to a stop - have more than a half of the chapter written out there, and also began the next chapter of Crimson Sagittarius. And just for the kicks of it, I am munching on FFVII may-be-may-not-be chapter, just because I was on a reading binge in that particular fandom. Still waiting on MHB to get the router repaired so that I can post the next part of Scrapbook Jewels out. Hint. it's the bitchy one. I moaned and groaned about it some posts back there.
Well, Anatomy went as well as expected, still no results. We all were a mite bit traumatised by that particular exam, but hopefully, I did fine.
Signing off,
Eirenei
No, really. Today, I found out that my cousin will defend her thesis tomorrow, and while I have my thesis in works - I am almost at the end, I just lack the presentation of the questionnaire's results - she already defended Sociology, and tomorrow, she will defend Geography - yes, she chose two courses to do, and what's more, she's expecting a kid at the beginning of February. A little girl, I am told, and there's a big chance she would be Aries by horoscope /snickers/... then poor her. I am Aries too, and I am incredibly stubborn and driven - whatever it takes. I am still on my thesis, and really, it scares me a little, because it's... so... big. I'm not kidding, because it already has some 64 pages, and I suspect it will, when finished, be over 100 - which is already a prerequisite for a magisterial degree. I really pity the beta who will have to get through all the stuff, because even if it isn't most boring reading in the world, it's certainly a little difficult - I went through many of the fields - Medicine, Logistics, Physics.../sweatdrops/. However, it's also true it took me three years to write it up to the shape it is today - I began in my second last year of school, continued another year, because of questionnaire style, and the third year was just because I fucked up and lost almost half of the already written material via faulty disk, and had to begin anew. Gee, ain't I lucky? /sarcastic/. Let's cross the finger the thing will be done and over with properly, as I am aiming for the highest scores possible, both for the thesis and the defense of thesis.
Anyway, I wish my cousin good luck with the defense. I will root for you.... just a little .
Now, continuing on the SSD drive. In the last post, I mentioned I switched my ordinary drive with a SSD one, got a whole host of programs working and was happy with the speed. However, it baffled me that in the evenings, the drive was as lazy as ever, and I set on finding on what was wrong. The chewing out of the disk courtesy of Zone Alarm Antivirus did nothing, but then I remembered I had to upload a whole heck of a updates for Windows 7 - I think it was something of a 127 - and I set on kicking the updating program in the question in order. I deleted the appropriate files, bit the uploading program for a time, and then uploaded both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro and Tune Up Utilities 2013. For those not familiar with the two programs, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro is a program that chomps on any malware or bad code that dares to enter your computer or laptop and crunches 'em in smithereens. I had Spybot Search&Destroy before, and while it does it's job (and it's free), Malwarebytes does the same job, without snatching too much of a memory resources, and it discovers some of the more clever bits that Spybot S&D may have overlooked. I used Malwarebytes when I had the trouble with the SweetIM, and it had done it's part brilliantly. So it's a good thing to have it uploaded on laptop or computer and occasionally check the disk for anything that made hiccups in otherwise smooth working of programs. As for Tune Up Utilities 2013, the name tells all - it's a number of tools or utilities that help you tune up your lil' beastie - for example, clean up registry, straighten up - metaphorically speaking- your disk, and so on. And it also has automatic maintenance of the overall program, so you don't need to be obsessive about checking everything every Saturday or something similar. The end result? My program stopped being so darned stubborn and performed as it should - fast, silent and without any hiccups it may have had before. Yay.
On the 'mom' front, it pisses and confuses the pants off of me how she can't use the Firefox browser, or better, she doesn't have a clue how to navigate the sites. /Sweatdrops/. Really. What has she done at that computer/laptop course, then? or maybe I am just too used to the workings of the computers and laptops and thus a mite bit worse teacher that I would have liked to be to her. Well, we'll see how it goes.
Also, continuing with writing fanfiction. Checked some of my older works, now doing Fire And Ice next chapter, as Among The Hawks And Doves plotdragons suddenly screeched to a stop - have more than a half of the chapter written out there, and also began the next chapter of Crimson Sagittarius. And just for the kicks of it, I am munching on FFVII may-be-may-not-be chapter, just because I was on a reading binge in that particular fandom. Still waiting on MHB to get the router repaired so that I can post the next part of Scrapbook Jewels out. Hint. it's the bitchy one. I moaned and groaned about it some posts back there.
Well, Anatomy went as well as expected, still no results. We all were a mite bit traumatised by that particular exam, but hopefully, I did fine.
Signing off,
Eirenei
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Learn To Fly... Or Saddling Over to SSD
Run and tell all of the angels, this could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution ‘cause this one is a lie
We sat around laughin’ and watched the last one die
("Learn To Fly", by Foo Fighters)
Woo. Yesterday and today was a heck of a learning to fly... metaphorically speaking of course.
I am no computer whiz - far from it, as I am still having glaring matches with the Excel program, and Excel winning (for now, I'll just get it yet), and I admit, it was a steep learning curve, what from the good ole' days of Windows 95 - yes, I did use'em and saw all the pretty cloudies, then the time zipped by in a sign of Windows 98 and marginally XP version, and then, there came Windows 7 I fell absolutely in love with.
If I love anything better than Windows 7, it would be a good old disc with space and speed to match. So over the years, I saddled from small ones - 750 GB to monsters of likes of 1 TB and learned to use USB keys, until I tentatively put my paws on drives that could be taken along to wherever you go - well, not under the water, but you get what I am talking about.
I knew about the existence of SSD (Solid State Drive) almost a year before I saw one in real life, but even then I was a mite bit skeptic because I doubted they really delivered the speed they promised. Yes, my brother swore by them upside and down, but as we both work in different fields, we are not very buddy-buddy - if anything, the only contact pertaining computers and now laptops is, when the programs needs to be installed anew or something is really royally fucked up (memory flashback when he somehow managed it to gut itself despite of him being a computer whiz) - Ahem.
However, yesterday, I got a chance to see the SSD in action and I have to admit, the thing is beastly fast - I am used to my laptop working fast, or at least faster than public computers (that's a given,) but SSD just flat out steamrolled my old disc when the speed was concerned. Of course, it is four times smaller, so I will have to be careful what I am uploading here, but the little hellion otherwise did the work that usually got my old drive wheezing for air in a snap.
Because I am on my laptop almost every day without fail, I can torture the drive hard, and it was a given I would need the replacement before long. And even if I was skeptic about 'adopting' a SSD, primarily because I just don't like the hassle it comes with uploading the entire hoist of programs I use on again, the SSD and Windows 7 did the work, which would usually last at least five to six hours (in the old times), in snappy hour and a half - there's not included my muddling around for Microsoft Word 2010 program - the little berk is notoriously hard to get down and done with, but somehow, and with the help of Office Toolkit, I managed to get him to behave nicely. Seriously, Microsoft and his activation licenses can suck like hell. Case in point, activation of Windows 7 - because I somehow lost the activation code, I was pressed to try the others high and low, without success. Windows Loader saved me from having a temper tantrum, and I send love to the program's creators. You guys rock!
So. The verdict? The thing deliver the promise of a speed, although I will have to see just how long it will work - brother says it has the life of a 2 million hours, so it should hold out quite nicely, but with me intending to abuse it quite thoroughly.... well, we'll see.
On the subject of stories, all of 'em are on a temporary hiatus, until I get the Anatomy done... Erk. We have an exam tomorrow, and I am still loitering here! /pales with fear/.
Wish me luck guys!
Eirenei
Think I need a devil to help me get things right
Hook me up a new revolution ‘cause this one is a lie
We sat around laughin’ and watched the last one die
("Learn To Fly", by Foo Fighters)
Woo. Yesterday and today was a heck of a learning to fly... metaphorically speaking of course.
I am no computer whiz - far from it, as I am still having glaring matches with the Excel program, and Excel winning (for now, I'll just get it yet), and I admit, it was a steep learning curve, what from the good ole' days of Windows 95 - yes, I did use'em and saw all the pretty cloudies, then the time zipped by in a sign of Windows 98 and marginally XP version, and then, there came Windows 7 I fell absolutely in love with.
If I love anything better than Windows 7, it would be a good old disc with space and speed to match. So over the years, I saddled from small ones - 750 GB to monsters of likes of 1 TB and learned to use USB keys, until I tentatively put my paws on drives that could be taken along to wherever you go - well, not under the water, but you get what I am talking about.
I knew about the existence of SSD (Solid State Drive) almost a year before I saw one in real life, but even then I was a mite bit skeptic because I doubted they really delivered the speed they promised. Yes, my brother swore by them upside and down, but as we both work in different fields, we are not very buddy-buddy - if anything, the only contact pertaining computers and now laptops is, when the programs needs to be installed anew or something is really royally fucked up (memory flashback when he somehow managed it to gut itself despite of him being a computer whiz) - Ahem.
However, yesterday, I got a chance to see the SSD in action and I have to admit, the thing is beastly fast - I am used to my laptop working fast, or at least faster than public computers (that's a given,) but SSD just flat out steamrolled my old disc when the speed was concerned. Of course, it is four times smaller, so I will have to be careful what I am uploading here, but the little hellion otherwise did the work that usually got my old drive wheezing for air in a snap.
Because I am on my laptop almost every day without fail, I can torture the drive hard, and it was a given I would need the replacement before long. And even if I was skeptic about 'adopting' a SSD, primarily because I just don't like the hassle it comes with uploading the entire hoist of programs I use on again, the SSD and Windows 7 did the work, which would usually last at least five to six hours (in the old times), in snappy hour and a half - there's not included my muddling around for Microsoft Word 2010 program - the little berk is notoriously hard to get down and done with, but somehow, and with the help of Office Toolkit, I managed to get him to behave nicely. Seriously, Microsoft and his activation licenses can suck like hell. Case in point, activation of Windows 7 - because I somehow lost the activation code, I was pressed to try the others high and low, without success. Windows Loader saved me from having a temper tantrum, and I send love to the program's creators. You guys rock!
So. The verdict? The thing deliver the promise of a speed, although I will have to see just how long it will work - brother says it has the life of a 2 million hours, so it should hold out quite nicely, but with me intending to abuse it quite thoroughly.... well, we'll see.
On the subject of stories, all of 'em are on a temporary hiatus, until I get the Anatomy done... Erk. We have an exam tomorrow, and I am still loitering here! /pales with fear/.
Wish me luck guys!
Eirenei
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
First Day In New Year
Yeah, no.
It seems I am surprised every year when that time comes. An ordinary day, but with another year mark tacked on - in the past it did me a number of troubles, because I still thought to use past year's markers for some of my appointments, so it caused all kinds of weird, when I was corrected.
The transition from the Old to New, was fairly smooth, and for once, very romantic. Full moon, glittering stars, and at the midnight, fireworks all around. it was a stark difference from the last year's one, when I was snuggled at home, listening to Iced Earth's 'I Died For You' and looking out to see the occasional fireworks. This Year, I was really tempted to stay home and not to go trample up in the hills at such a late hour, be it paid off handsomely, even if I am now sleepy more than usual. And note to myself - more movin' my booty overall, because lugging up my body mass seemed to become a tedious chore. Ugh.
New Year. 365 days of chances, surprises and 365 sunrises and sunsets to look forward to... and many more starry nights and annoying summer light seeping in my room at dawn.
Oh, ant this time, my main theme song was by Garden, titled Late Show - it seemed appropriate for the moment, and seeing that I am a night owl...
Tsuki ga miteita Boku no Late-show
Kimi no te wo totte Hashiru Late-show
Yoru no shijima ni Hibiku Late-show
Tada asa wo matte Tsumugu Late-show...
Let's hope the New Year 2013 will be prosperous with happiness, health and love.
Eirenei
It seems I am surprised every year when that time comes. An ordinary day, but with another year mark tacked on - in the past it did me a number of troubles, because I still thought to use past year's markers for some of my appointments, so it caused all kinds of weird, when I was corrected.
The transition from the Old to New, was fairly smooth, and for once, very romantic. Full moon, glittering stars, and at the midnight, fireworks all around. it was a stark difference from the last year's one, when I was snuggled at home, listening to Iced Earth's 'I Died For You' and looking out to see the occasional fireworks. This Year, I was really tempted to stay home and not to go trample up in the hills at such a late hour, be it paid off handsomely, even if I am now sleepy more than usual. And note to myself - more movin' my booty overall, because lugging up my body mass seemed to become a tedious chore. Ugh.
New Year. 365 days of chances, surprises and 365 sunrises and sunsets to look forward to... and many more starry nights and annoying summer light seeping in my room at dawn.
Oh, ant this time, my main theme song was by Garden, titled Late Show - it seemed appropriate for the moment, and seeing that I am a night owl...
Tsuki ga miteita Boku no Late-show
Kimi no te wo totte Hashiru Late-show
Yoru no shijima ni Hibiku Late-show
Tada asa wo matte Tsumugu Late-show...
Let's hope the New Year 2013 will be prosperous with happiness, health and love.
Eirenei
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