Ugh. What can I say?
I promised I would update .... so there it is.
Days are doggone hot now, so I am comatose most of time... as much as I love heat, I seriously wish to have some rain to cool the landscape down, at least for a little bit.
As it is, operation was a success, had to go through the sucky phase of having a painful inner ear because I didn't protect it from the winds (owwie), and then got the outer part of cochlear implant. The first probe was strange, because it seemed that I had lil' bats squeakin' in my ear - you know, like when you are sick and you have a feeling your head is just ringing with sounds, but with less pain and more echoes. It was very very very... weird, but I am getting used to it now. Still, it will be a long long road to the real hearing /sweatdrops/.
My thesis is a... piece of work. /eyes the recently finished chapters evilly/ That questionnaire was a bitch to get through, and if I ever do anything like that, then it hopefully won't include home-made polls. /sour face/. To go at least thrice through the same damn poll and write out results is a bitchin' hard job, because of all checking and re-checking of the results. I'm no math genius, so this was a little harder for me, but now it's done and over with. Whew. So I sent it yesterday to my mentor to get through it all - I am evil like that, and besides, I haven't been in contact with him for long enough time because of the post-op recovery. /evil smirk/
Got another idea for another crossover, this time is Bleach/F/SN oriented, but not telling more until I have something more concrete to introduce either here or on FF_net. oh and the theme song for the all the souls that go through the same torture with theses like me: Bleed It Out by Linkin Park.
See y'all soon,
Eirenei
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Doggone tired and post-op adventures
Right. Survived the operation, with the help of kind personnel, strong painkillers and my own bullheadedness.
Right now, doggone tired, so the descriptions of the gory details will come sometime later. Suffice to say, today they removed the sewing thread, but my ear is still leaking fluids, which irks me, because it's annoying feeling. No longer loopy from the painkillers, or climbing the walls from frustration on what to do in the hospital. Survived the shame of having to piss in the bed.... erk. Guys really have it easier, because of their ding-dong between their legs. I swear, I am jealous. /pouts/. No matter, it's done and over with, it was a little mortifying but a man gotta do what a man gotta do, and if that means to piss in a latrine under yer ass, them you damned well piss into it, polite manners be damned. after all of that, no matter how educated you are, you still have the body and needs of an animal.
My feelings? Irritated, and wondering if made a right decision, even if I am now more comfortable than before they removed the thread. We'll see if the operation was actually successful a month later, but until then, I gotta get myself into shape, health wise, because I wanna have my skull whole again.
Bit my beta, because she didn't beta all of the sent material yet, and I intend to give 'er some more to chew on... as soon as I get enough snooze to be actually awake. Gawd, but waking up at the damned hour of 4.50 is an ungodly business that shouldn't have been done, or if it has to be, then the least amount of times possible. Yeah, chronic snoozer and whatnot, in my defense, love my sleep.
Tomorrow, I hope I will be more sane.
Signing off,
Eirenei
Right now, doggone tired, so the descriptions of the gory details will come sometime later. Suffice to say, today they removed the sewing thread, but my ear is still leaking fluids, which irks me, because it's annoying feeling. No longer loopy from the painkillers, or climbing the walls from frustration on what to do in the hospital. Survived the shame of having to piss in the bed.... erk. Guys really have it easier, because of their ding-dong between their legs. I swear, I am jealous. /pouts/. No matter, it's done and over with, it was a little mortifying but a man gotta do what a man gotta do, and if that means to piss in a latrine under yer ass, them you damned well piss into it, polite manners be damned. after all of that, no matter how educated you are, you still have the body and needs of an animal.
My feelings? Irritated, and wondering if made a right decision, even if I am now more comfortable than before they removed the thread. We'll see if the operation was actually successful a month later, but until then, I gotta get myself into shape, health wise, because I wanna have my skull whole again.
Bit my beta, because she didn't beta all of the sent material yet, and I intend to give 'er some more to chew on... as soon as I get enough snooze to be actually awake. Gawd, but waking up at the damned hour of 4.50 is an ungodly business that shouldn't have been done, or if it has to be, then the least amount of times possible. Yeah, chronic snoozer and whatnot, in my defense, love my sleep.
Tomorrow, I hope I will be more sane.
Signing off,
Eirenei
Monday, May 6, 2013
Printer Mayday And Solutions
Well, I survived. Took two more days to get all those wood logs to safety, and my back was practically screaming with pain after the second day (howling, actually), but it was done.
Today got an unpleasant surprise in the shape of my printer stubborn refusal of scanning some of my more important official documents to my laptop. Solved the problem, without my bother's help, surprisingly - he is the Tech Man in da house, and the berkish printer that caused me the problems is now purring out the required data.
As it is, I partially based my solutions on the answers from the FixYa page - those self-help pages can be a kind of a godsend when you are in a pinch but a word of warning - be judicious on what are you trying to do, elsewise you will got yourself in even a bigger mess than usual.
As it is, situation was like this - me, having a laptop with Windows 7 installed on, and frustrated because the printer Samsung CLX-3185FW refused to cooperate and scan the required documents to my laptop. Cue the seething and grumbling and searching for a solution. At first, I tried to get the scanned documents on the laptop via the USB key or USB cable - no such luck. I thought wireless was a bit above me to repair - I don't know about it much, only how to use it when it's in effect. Repair? Don't ask me.
Well, my miracle road consisted from four steps:
1. Checking if Hardware and Sound (you find it under Control Panel) - - View devices and printers - even sense the damn berk [It didn't find anything. Oh, joy. Not!] Clicked Add a device in the same window - if the trouble is a recent one, it should have found the printer you are desperately hoping to work with. It did mine, but still no dice with scanning.
2. Going to Samsung Printers - Samsung CLX3180 Series (you find it under All programs, just go to Start and here it is.) and updating the entire driver collection [Still didn't work, but in case your drivers are at fault, it's a good thing if you do that step.]
3. Run Scan And Fax Manager. (If you don't have it, then download it) As I thought, the printer didn't have the IP address of my PC, so I got to do it a quick scan to find the necessary data.
4: Did the trial run with scanning - and I was happily surprised the previously mutinous little berk of a scanner cutely purred out the required data on my PC. Good boy [pats the printer fondly].
The steps work if you have the wireless between PC or laptop and printer working, if you want to print, but it doesn't work when you want to scan. This is also a cue - PC knows the IP address of the printer, and printer doesn't know the PC's IP address, so maybe the only two steps that are needed are number 1 and 3, but I'd recommend to do all of 'em just in cause.
Well, that's it for now. Much luck to everyone!
Eirenei
Today got an unpleasant surprise in the shape of my printer stubborn refusal of scanning some of my more important official documents to my laptop. Solved the problem, without my bother's help, surprisingly - he is the Tech Man in da house, and the berkish printer that caused me the problems is now purring out the required data.
As it is, I partially based my solutions on the answers from the FixYa page - those self-help pages can be a kind of a godsend when you are in a pinch but a word of warning - be judicious on what are you trying to do, elsewise you will got yourself in even a bigger mess than usual.
As it is, situation was like this - me, having a laptop with Windows 7 installed on, and frustrated because the printer Samsung CLX-3185FW refused to cooperate and scan the required documents to my laptop. Cue the seething and grumbling and searching for a solution. At first, I tried to get the scanned documents on the laptop via the USB key or USB cable - no such luck. I thought wireless was a bit above me to repair - I don't know about it much, only how to use it when it's in effect. Repair? Don't ask me.
Well, my miracle road consisted from four steps:
1. Checking if Hardware and Sound (you find it under Control Panel) - - View devices and printers - even sense the damn berk [It didn't find anything. Oh, joy. Not!] Clicked Add a device in the same window - if the trouble is a recent one, it should have found the printer you are desperately hoping to work with. It did mine, but still no dice with scanning.
2. Going to Samsung Printers - Samsung CLX3180 Series (you find it under All programs, just go to Start and here it is.) and updating the entire driver collection [Still didn't work, but in case your drivers are at fault, it's a good thing if you do that step.]
3. Run Scan And Fax Manager. (If you don't have it, then download it) As I thought, the printer didn't have the IP address of my PC, so I got to do it a quick scan to find the necessary data.
4: Did the trial run with scanning - and I was happily surprised the previously mutinous little berk of a scanner cutely purred out the required data on my PC. Good boy [pats the printer fondly].
The steps work if you have the wireless between PC or laptop and printer working, if you want to print, but it doesn't work when you want to scan. This is also a cue - PC knows the IP address of the printer, and printer doesn't know the PC's IP address, so maybe the only two steps that are needed are number 1 and 3, but I'd recommend to do all of 'em just in cause.
Well, that's it for now. Much luck to everyone!
Eirenei
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Crazy Sunday And The Overkill
You know, while working, there is an overkill, and there is The Overkill.
Today I experienced the last one. Usually, Sundays are days for lazying away, but not this time, because my brother decided to exercise his sadomasochistic tendencies, and dragged me out to sawing and putting away the logs.
Urgh. And ick.
Nine hours of working, him sawing the logs, me gathering 'em and putting 'em away. Really, warmth in winter months has a high price, and what's more, you have to pay it with work in spring, so to say even before autumn comes. I don't know what out neighbors thought about the whining of the saw, but luckily no one complained... too much.
Ick, ick, ickitty ick - I am feeling dirty from all that sawing dust and sweat. /shudders/.
Good news, we put away a little more than a half of the logs, from that one quarter is already stored, and the second quarter waits to be stored - and luckily, my right wrist held on through all the torture I put it through - seems the wrist bonds are on a way to mend from the incident from the four years ago when I broke my wrist. There are small pains still, but nothing that a good massage wouldn't get in order. Honestly, I am positively surprised, because some of those logs were darned heavy, and I was throwing 'em as if they were boomerangs or lances. Brother can count himself lucky my aim was far away from him /teasing smirk/, but last year I had to throw even heavier logs, even if not with such a tempo I had the today ones.
Tomorrow, someone will be loco enough to finish the work, Dunno if I will participate, but if I will, I'll at least try to drag one another with me - AKA my brother.
Weather today held - sunny, with almost summer temperature, and if tomorrow will be the same, then we are in for a small hell.
Mom once again did the stupid and went on bending when her spine is paining her. I so wish I could have twisted her ears.... Really. She should have known better. /sweatdrops/.
The only one who lazed away was my father. Lucky sod. /snorts/.
Eirenei
Going under shower to wash away the ickiness.
Today I experienced the last one. Usually, Sundays are days for lazying away, but not this time, because my brother decided to exercise his sadomasochistic tendencies, and dragged me out to sawing and putting away the logs.
Urgh. And ick.
Nine hours of working, him sawing the logs, me gathering 'em and putting 'em away. Really, warmth in winter months has a high price, and what's more, you have to pay it with work in spring, so to say even before autumn comes. I don't know what out neighbors thought about the whining of the saw, but luckily no one complained... too much.
Ick, ick, ickitty ick - I am feeling dirty from all that sawing dust and sweat. /shudders/.
Good news, we put away a little more than a half of the logs, from that one quarter is already stored, and the second quarter waits to be stored - and luckily, my right wrist held on through all the torture I put it through - seems the wrist bonds are on a way to mend from the incident from the four years ago when I broke my wrist. There are small pains still, but nothing that a good massage wouldn't get in order. Honestly, I am positively surprised, because some of those logs were darned heavy, and I was throwing 'em as if they were boomerangs or lances. Brother can count himself lucky my aim was far away from him /teasing smirk/, but last year I had to throw even heavier logs, even if not with such a tempo I had the today ones.
Tomorrow, someone will be loco enough to finish the work, Dunno if I will participate, but if I will, I'll at least try to drag one another with me - AKA my brother.
Weather today held - sunny, with almost summer temperature, and if tomorrow will be the same, then we are in for a small hell.
Mom once again did the stupid and went on bending when her spine is paining her. I so wish I could have twisted her ears.... Really. She should have known better. /sweatdrops/.
The only one who lazed away was my father. Lucky sod. /snorts/.
Eirenei
Going under shower to wash away the ickiness.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
First half done... and multiplying of hypothesis
I am bushed. The clock is 22.39 now, and I am bushed. /doggone tired./
Writing is a serious business, but I didn't think it was that kind of a serious business...
I have continued my work on thesis from yesterday and achieved the wanted 20% more of finished work, but... / tired glare at the smug results/.... In the meantime, my hypothesis seemed to multiply like rabbits. At the beginning, I had three hypothesis to prove, and now, I have six of' em. I don't know whether I will keep the additional three, because that would demand very careful juggling of some specific questions, and that just breeds more questions if that's even possible in the first place. If it will be possible, or better, if I can simplify the method of showing the results, good. Otherwise, I will have to bin some results, and that makes me cranky, because I god-damned slaved to edit them in the first place.
Luckily I held off sending the preliminary paper with the harebrained ideas written on to my mentor, because if I had sent it, without actually supplying the evidence that this is possible and not a headache and a half of migraine in the works, that would have been a really bad idea.
The problem is, while the hypotheses are all good and well, if I even overcome the simplification of results and find a way to introduce them without much confusion, so many of them are not good when it comes to the defense of the thesis in front of the professors. We are already limited with time - 10 to 15 minutes, and maybe 20 max to introduce, explain and defend your brainchild - well, maybe 5 to 10 for additional question from the professors' side, and really, you gotta have to be in your best shape, along with your thesis.
.... Holy shit. I just realized, I've been behind the computer for 13 and a half of hour! Gawd, this thing.... /shudders/. I have a music playing while I work, and except of small breaks, it just cycled through the entire specter of songs back to the beginning.... /sweatdrops/ Darn.
Well, let's go snooze, as it's 23.09 now, and sun is being evil those days, what with rising so soon.
Cheers,
Eirenei
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Writing is a serious business, but I didn't think it was that kind of a serious business...
I have continued my work on thesis from yesterday and achieved the wanted 20% more of finished work, but... / tired glare at the smug results/.... In the meantime, my hypothesis seemed to multiply like rabbits. At the beginning, I had three hypothesis to prove, and now, I have six of' em. I don't know whether I will keep the additional three, because that would demand very careful juggling of some specific questions, and that just breeds more questions if that's even possible in the first place. If it will be possible, or better, if I can simplify the method of showing the results, good. Otherwise, I will have to bin some results, and that makes me cranky, because I god-damned slaved to edit them in the first place.
Luckily I held off sending the preliminary paper with the harebrained ideas written on to my mentor, because if I had sent it, without actually supplying the evidence that this is possible and not a headache and a half of migraine in the works, that would have been a really bad idea.
The problem is, while the hypotheses are all good and well, if I even overcome the simplification of results and find a way to introduce them without much confusion, so many of them are not good when it comes to the defense of the thesis in front of the professors. We are already limited with time - 10 to 15 minutes, and maybe 20 max to introduce, explain and defend your brainchild - well, maybe 5 to 10 for additional question from the professors' side, and really, you gotta have to be in your best shape, along with your thesis.
.... Holy shit. I just realized, I've been behind the computer for 13 and a half of hour! Gawd, this thing.... /shudders/. I have a music playing while I work, and except of small breaks, it just cycled through the entire specter of songs back to the beginning.... /sweatdrops/ Darn.
Well, let's go snooze, as it's 23.09 now, and sun is being evil those days, what with rising so soon.
Cheers,
Eirenei
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Drag thru practical work and sunny days
Right now, I am feeling a little... accomplished?
Wow, what a change.
I am working on my thesis bit by bit, and the infernal thing is charmingly difficult as always - sometimes I wonder if I will manage to get 100 outta 100 from all this mess over my computer. The thing is, I am just too bullheaded to admit I was wrong, and at this point there isn't anything else than to carry on, because otherwise, I would chuck the work of two years in a bin.
Right now, I am on some 64% to finish the darned thing - I say 50 % was writing theory, and today I got 14% of practical work done, and tomorrow I will hopefully have whoppin' 20 % to get my sorry carcass on the second stage of this magnificent paperwork of mine.
I admit, I am a little proud of my theory work, but practice is something I doubt I will be willing to go through with once I finish this one. Have this week and a next month to finish it if I want to have summer for myself. /tired glare/. If all goes well, I will need two additional weeks to get the things in order to this one, but that is if I would really kick into the high gear, like I did today, and believe me, sitting and writing for... /looks at the clock.../...8 hours total can be a bitch and a half. Writing isn't problem, but the stuff I am writing about can be a mite bit unwieldy to reason with and really, I sometimes want to clobber the whole thing and be done with it.
Being a chief writer, editor, beta and all that shit really makes me wonder if I really want to continue to pursue the education. Maybe I would have been better off in artistic waters, but this train had already gone a long time ago.
Good things here? Well, if done well, the paper will be a beast to reckon with /evil grin/, and I am aiming to get the thing on the plate reserved for Master Degree. That means it would have to be extraordinary in and of itself. But this is like climbing on Mt Everest - very hard, very very hard... but doable. And... huff... I am more than a halfway here, so let's get'em, tigers!
My artistic writing screeched on an abrupt halt, but that doesn't mean I don't have ideas coming through the crazy pathways of my brain. My last hare-brained plotdragon apparently adores the pairing of Emiya Shirou and Kotomine Kirei /chokes on air/. I don't know why . actually, I do know, but I am in denial. Darn artists for making such cute little pictures of the pair.
As it is, my mind is practically whimpering with ideas to write out the lil' tidbit of story. /large puppy dog eyes at the picture./ Yeah, I know that I have a shitload of stories already, and prompts too and everything, but my plotdragons are greedy, and even if they are enemies...
Oh, and I just noticed that somehow I managed to get the photos in. Well, not bad for a bead-brained student that had wrote the thesis for some 8 hours this day..../ stupefied blink/
Wow, what a change.
I am working on my thesis bit by bit, and the infernal thing is charmingly difficult as always - sometimes I wonder if I will manage to get 100 outta 100 from all this mess over my computer. The thing is, I am just too bullheaded to admit I was wrong, and at this point there isn't anything else than to carry on, because otherwise, I would chuck the work of two years in a bin.
Right now, I am on some 64% to finish the darned thing - I say 50 % was writing theory, and today I got 14% of practical work done, and tomorrow I will hopefully have whoppin' 20 % to get my sorry carcass on the second stage of this magnificent paperwork of mine.
I admit, I am a little proud of my theory work, but practice is something I doubt I will be willing to go through with once I finish this one. Have this week and a next month to finish it if I want to have summer for myself. /tired glare/. If all goes well, I will need two additional weeks to get the things in order to this one, but that is if I would really kick into the high gear, like I did today, and believe me, sitting and writing for... /looks at the clock.../...8 hours total can be a bitch and a half. Writing isn't problem, but the stuff I am writing about can be a mite bit unwieldy to reason with and really, I sometimes want to clobber the whole thing and be done with it.
Being a chief writer, editor, beta and all that shit really makes me wonder if I really want to continue to pursue the education. Maybe I would have been better off in artistic waters, but this train had already gone a long time ago.
Good things here? Well, if done well, the paper will be a beast to reckon with /evil grin/, and I am aiming to get the thing on the plate reserved for Master Degree. That means it would have to be extraordinary in and of itself. But this is like climbing on Mt Everest - very hard, very very hard... but doable. And... huff... I am more than a halfway here, so let's get'em, tigers!
My artistic writing screeched on an abrupt halt, but that doesn't mean I don't have ideas coming through the crazy pathways of my brain. My last hare-brained plotdragon apparently adores the pairing of Emiya Shirou and Kotomine Kirei /chokes on air/. I don't know why . actually, I do know, but I am in denial. Darn artists for making such cute little pictures of the pair.
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Oh, and I just noticed that somehow I managed to get the photos in. Well, not bad for a bead-brained student that had wrote the thesis for some 8 hours this day..../ stupefied blink/
Monday, April 22, 2013
RFID and other things
Right, back into the swing.
Right now chewing on my thesis and fin-fucking-ally having the hypotheses to go along with it! It had been driving me around the bend before because I didn't have a clue on how to get them to work, the hypotheses are the cornerstones that could make or break the entire thing, and just last week, I am,bushed my mentor, and we rehashed them into order. On that note, I am thankful to him for bearing with me, because I am not the easiest student to go along with - I come and I go and it's nothing unusual to not hear a peep from me for a month or more. /sweatdrops/. My bad, yeah. I still remember the time when I got my professor for Psychology into aneurysms with my working style - while my schoolmates were coming to her like obedient little Chocobos, I was somewhere on the side, staring at them and wondering just why the fuck are they asking her this or that. Funny thing, she asked me if someone else had done my project, because it seemed impossible I got the highest count of points available without having a mentor hovering over my shoulder. Thus, she asked me if I cheated. I retaliated with snapping back that I could prove I wrote the entire thing by paperwork - I could bring the drafts 'n all for her perusal if she doesn't believe me. Well, when I got my diploma, she relented and apologized. /smirks/ But it still stung a little - I know I wasn't exactly a model student, and some of my written works were woefully sub-par at times /cough-tests-cough/, but c'mon, if I am interested in something, then I will damn well do it right!
On the writing side - getting the next chapter of Fire And Ice to beta, and rifling for an oneshot of Weiss Kreuz /HP I began to write. Damn it, papirology can be such a bitch - okay, you get the maximum of the creative juices flowing, but storing the papers is a pain in the ass and a half sometimes. Which reminds me, I will soon renovate my room - painting the walls, scrubbing the carpet and most importantly, get my paper junk and whatnot in order. It's about time /grumbles/, I just have to wait a little to finish the thesis works.
(Pissed off mum because I got a veto on the working outside. Well, hell... /shrugs/ Needed to be done.)
Oh, and while we are at Weiss Kreuz.... a snippet from one of my works.
Right now chewing on my thesis and fin-fucking-ally having the hypotheses to go along with it! It had been driving me around the bend before because I didn't have a clue on how to get them to work, the hypotheses are the cornerstones that could make or break the entire thing, and just last week, I am,bushed my mentor, and we rehashed them into order. On that note, I am thankful to him for bearing with me, because I am not the easiest student to go along with - I come and I go and it's nothing unusual to not hear a peep from me for a month or more. /sweatdrops/. My bad, yeah. I still remember the time when I got my professor for Psychology into aneurysms with my working style - while my schoolmates were coming to her like obedient little Chocobos, I was somewhere on the side, staring at them and wondering just why the fuck are they asking her this or that. Funny thing, she asked me if someone else had done my project, because it seemed impossible I got the highest count of points available without having a mentor hovering over my shoulder. Thus, she asked me if I cheated. I retaliated with snapping back that I could prove I wrote the entire thing by paperwork - I could bring the drafts 'n all for her perusal if she doesn't believe me. Well, when I got my diploma, she relented and apologized. /smirks/ But it still stung a little - I know I wasn't exactly a model student, and some of my written works were woefully sub-par at times /cough-tests-cough/, but c'mon, if I am interested in something, then I will damn well do it right!
On the writing side - getting the next chapter of Fire And Ice to beta, and rifling for an oneshot of Weiss Kreuz /HP I began to write. Damn it, papirology can be such a bitch - okay, you get the maximum of the creative juices flowing, but storing the papers is a pain in the ass and a half sometimes. Which reminds me, I will soon renovate my room - painting the walls, scrubbing the carpet and most importantly, get my paper junk and whatnot in order. It's about time /grumbles/, I just have to wait a little to finish the thesis works.
(Pissed off mum because I got a veto on the working outside. Well, hell... /shrugs/ Needed to be done.)
Oh, and while we are at Weiss Kreuz.... a snippet from one of my works.
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