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

Post Christmas daze and a new crossover

 As you see,  we survived the Apocalypse.

Moreover, I survied the Christmas -   even if we had    a lot of work to do, while  the two berks holed themselves to their respective places.   At the rate they are going, I am seriously  thinking demerits of  marriage, because both of them were jack shit useful  with preparations, be that  with baking  sweets,  decorating the  fir tree or  tidying up the  home.

We didn't go to the midnight mass, as mum got the crams in her back,  so  I was doomed to go to the first morning  mass.  I could've strangled her, becasue I've told her not to bend down and do unnecessary things -  that meant sorting the  glasses - but  did she listen to me? Nooo, she knows better.

Bitchin'.

Gotta get my  wake up hour on earlier time, because if i continue my little trend   I will  be bitched at more than i already am.  Seriously, wake up once at 9 AM, and  you are ribbed  for it.  No fair.

On the bright side, finished with my beta's challenge about making  HP/Firefly  crossover -  had been a bitch to write, took  one and half a day, but it's done.   Meanwhile I almost lost the contents of the story,  thanks to the   sudden  laptop blackout,  lost some of the story because   Auto-save didn't manage to save everything  and Mal was  just a particularly hard bastard to write, because they  we don't have  aired episodes of Firefly.   Shitty luck on my side, but I did it and  now my beta has to chow across some of the examples of  Advanced Math from my  college.  So ha, revenge is sweet!

Also Fire And Ice  had been updated yesterday -  I was lucky that  MHB managed to get it done, considering she had  trouble with routers.

Tomorrow,   continuing with Anatomy.  Ain't  I lucky? /sarcastic/

Eirenei