As it is, the weather remains wacky as usual - hot like nobody's business, then cold and now it's hot again - my skull is complaining, because waiting for a drive for almost an hour in the harshest heat can do that to aperson, even if I had on summer clothes.
What now? Yesterday, my Office program rebelled when I switched on Safe mode because my laptop was freezing in normal one. Drat it, HP, you could do better lappies, or at least get the existing ones the breathing air - they are sometimes all to susceptible to overheating - mea culpa too, because I am working on my laptop for 14 to 16 hours per day, and well, hell, my poor lappy is taxed to its limits. Doesn't help my room is exposed to the sun at the hottest hour, and even if i do have a laptop cooler, the thing is only moderately useful, because HP got the cooling/heating banks done so awkwardly the fans can't exactly splash a drift of air into the laptop's vents. Back to the issue - yup, the lappy had unfrozen - the CPU was ridiculously high (100%), and then, in Safe mode, it lowered to somewhat acceptable 26 -28%, and that is running bare essentials. Anyway, I wanted to check some stuff in Word - my most beloved and used program, however, Microsoft Office said that the activation was wrong. I just stared. Bullshit in it's purest form, I say. The thing is ridiculously pricey, and it then had a gall to squeak out it won't work when in safe mode? Those are the days you sincerely want to strangle the aforementioned program or better, its' creators. Solved the thing with Microsoft Toolkit, but I learned one very important lesson - if you really have to work in Safe Mode, for all that's holy, don't touch Office programs - the thing is worse than primadonna in her snit. If you really have to work it, do it in Word pad. Also, the sites still offer that SweetIM nightmare, so beware - if you load 7-zip and you get offered in the process of downloading it, to install SweetIM with cute gesture of Accept or Deny, then for all that's holy, don't. If you really want 7-zip, go to it's original page, it's freeware, but if you do chose to install quickly-peasy from dubious sources, be prepared on the masochistic fight of epic proportions to get the SweetIM stuff off your computer or laptop, whichever you use. in one of the previous posts, I told about my epic fight with the SweetIM, so if you are really the fool or masochist to do the deed, there is your salvation. (Up here, link)
Sometimes a person could only wonder whether Microsoft Office is worth of the trouble it sometimes causes, whether inadvertently or not. /defeated sigh/. But as it is, this is solved and lesson learned.
Thesis will be kick-started and hopefully finished by Friday as I got some people roped in to check my work over - I didn't get my mentor, as he had gone to holidays, but I did get a co-mentor and she was kind enough to rehash the main points with me and get me some advice on how to advance. Seriously, all that writing of the thesis was making me shitfaced at times, because it just did. Even if I do some very serious research for my stories, the thesis is a yarn ball all on it's own, and no matter how many papers you have written int he time of study, you are really not prepared for the amount of work the thesis does include on it's own. /Sweatdrops/ Yes, I am bitchin'- but I have a right to bitch, as any of my co-martyrs know. It will be shorter than intended, but that doesn't really mean anything /snarks/. Now I have to chomp on my deal older brother to get through this and possibly help me with editing it in the shape it has to be in. Yeesh.
Training with cochlear implant is underway - still lil' bats squeakin' and sometimes it's hard to keep a hold on temper, because now there are more sounds crashing through the sound processor - still not sounds per se, but more like electric impulses, which can be goddamn annoying at times and it makes me tired as hell, but for the sake of advancing...
And I noticed something else, too. Fashion sucks. Really, it does. All the shops I've looked through today have clothes for Barbies or underfed girls. /growls/. Are we really so far as to promote anorexia and bulimia as a beauty ideal for the young girls? Stick-thin, almost no breasts, their faces painted with all the colors available - okay, I am overloading this point a bit - and with bling around their necks and in their ears? The clothes I checked over was very rarely quality - it was more than not quantity and in sometimes micro-sizes. I know I do have some work with myself regarding my form and whatnot, but the shops catering more to the thin sticks than women with curves is a discrimination of the highest order. What do we even teach the modern generation of girls? How to squeal, how to say 'like' cutely, how to flirt, what kind of boys are cool - preferably ones with big bank account or bad-ass sex hunger monsters - that they need make up to be 'perfect', that having this and that would heighten up their sex appeal - most notably bikinis, extra-short skirts, weirdly done shirts and that torn-up clothes are sign of being 'hip' and cool. i know I described the extremes, but the fact is, people, and women especially, in the first and second world, are regardless if they know it or not, victims of the consumer industry. It makes me remember the song from Daft Punk, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, and not in a good sense. It's an advancement for the sake of advancing - partying harder, having better job, faster cars, being stronger in political influence or otherwise. This had been present s since ever, but it made me think - we live in time of being on a precipice between war and peace. Young people are trying to get a stable job in the iffy economy, while the old ones are trying to get by, often working past their retirement age - not because it makes them happy, but for the sole survival in their old days, thus making it impossible for the young people getting a job and payment. In short, the employment market had double, triple and even quadruple standards, depending from which side you look at the situation. Even if you graduate from college, nowadays it's not guaranteed that you would get the job just because you've graduated. And sometimes even if you do have work experience, you are kindly informed that you are not a good fit, even if you are more than enough qualified for the job you are applying to.
This makes me twitchy. Something will have to give in the situation, especially in Europe. Germany is now a sole holder of the power in the Europe, and other countries have to negotiate with it, most notably Greece, and with Croatia entering the Eurozone, it's bound to be interesting and at the times explosive. I don't know what the politicians are doing, but even in my country, there are murmurs of dissatisfaction. People are beginning to move, and it's only a question of time when they will say enough is enough, and take the reins in their own hands. Fishing in muddy waters, proverbially speaking, is never a good business, and people have had enough of mud distorting their sight.
Signing off,
Eirenei
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