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Jul. 10th, 2007 05:50 amLast night after I got home I took my walk, at about 5 pm in the evening. It was still quite hot outside. A bit later I made sandwiches and fixed some snacks and things to take to work. This is a big step because I usually leave such things until the morning and then I often don't have the time to do anything. Up until last week I was getting up around 8-9 am and I had plenty of time to do things such as fix breakfast and lunch and take my walk before I headed to work at about 12:15 pm, but now I'm getting up at 5 am and leaving for work at 6:15 am, which doesn't give me a lot of time to do anything.
I played some City of Heroes. I found a team attempting the Terra Volta respec trial, and joined them, even though I already have a respec saved up from having done the trial last week. I actually attempted the trial twice last week, the first team finished it fine, the second team wiped out on the very last wave and failed. Last night's team wasn't all that great and I was fairly certain we couldn't finish the trial, but once again we made it to the very last wave before wiping out. In the Terra Volta respec trial, your last mission is to fight your way into the core of a nuclear reactor and then protect it from waves of "Sky Raiders" (a villian group with a Junior Birdman complex) as they rush in and try to destroy it. There are ten waves in a span of thirty minutes, and the last wave is always the biggest, and that's where teams usually fail, and if your team wipes out during the reactor waves, then the bad guys generally destroy the reactor long before people can run to the hospital and rush back to the mission. It's over, and you've put in 2-3 hours of work for no reward, aside from the experience you got along the way.
The good thing was that several members had never made it to the reactor, so it was a good learning experience at least. But you know you're in trouble when, during your first mission with a team, you're thinking, "This team really doesn't have it together, there's no way we're good enough to get through this," and then someone else on the team suddenly exclaims, "Wow, this is the best team I've ever been on!"
By the time we failed it was nearly 11 pm, an hour past when I wanted to go to bed. The hardest part of my new schedule isn't getting up at 5 am, it's going to bed early the night before. ^_^ Anyway, just before going to sleep I plugged my iPod nano in to recharge, and something went wrong. It froze up, and nothing I could do would make it do anything at all. I thought it was dead, and I spent an extra half hour or so trying to get it to do something, and had a hard time getting to sleep. Before I went to sleep I determined that it was still under a one-year warranty (I bought it sometime last August).
Today I went to the Apple website to see how to go about getting it fixed or replaced. Apparently I could just take it to an Apple store, so that sounded much easier than mailing it somewhere. But they have a series of steps to go through first, and the first one is "reset", where you toggle the hold button on and off, then hold down the menu and select buttons for 6-10 seconds. I tried this, and to my surprise it worked! ^_^ I didn't even have to wipe and reinstall, it just started working again like normal.
This makes me nervous though. What if it works for another month or so and then dies for good? I'll be past the one-year warranty by then.
But otherwise I'm glad it's working again, I didn't want to have to get it replaced or anything. That might have left me without an iPod for several days or so.
I played some City of Heroes. I found a team attempting the Terra Volta respec trial, and joined them, even though I already have a respec saved up from having done the trial last week. I actually attempted the trial twice last week, the first team finished it fine, the second team wiped out on the very last wave and failed. Last night's team wasn't all that great and I was fairly certain we couldn't finish the trial, but once again we made it to the very last wave before wiping out. In the Terra Volta respec trial, your last mission is to fight your way into the core of a nuclear reactor and then protect it from waves of "Sky Raiders" (a villian group with a Junior Birdman complex) as they rush in and try to destroy it. There are ten waves in a span of thirty minutes, and the last wave is always the biggest, and that's where teams usually fail, and if your team wipes out during the reactor waves, then the bad guys generally destroy the reactor long before people can run to the hospital and rush back to the mission. It's over, and you've put in 2-3 hours of work for no reward, aside from the experience you got along the way.
The good thing was that several members had never made it to the reactor, so it was a good learning experience at least. But you know you're in trouble when, during your first mission with a team, you're thinking, "This team really doesn't have it together, there's no way we're good enough to get through this," and then someone else on the team suddenly exclaims, "Wow, this is the best team I've ever been on!"
By the time we failed it was nearly 11 pm, an hour past when I wanted to go to bed. The hardest part of my new schedule isn't getting up at 5 am, it's going to bed early the night before. ^_^ Anyway, just before going to sleep I plugged my iPod nano in to recharge, and something went wrong. It froze up, and nothing I could do would make it do anything at all. I thought it was dead, and I spent an extra half hour or so trying to get it to do something, and had a hard time getting to sleep. Before I went to sleep I determined that it was still under a one-year warranty (I bought it sometime last August).
Today I went to the Apple website to see how to go about getting it fixed or replaced. Apparently I could just take it to an Apple store, so that sounded much easier than mailing it somewhere. But they have a series of steps to go through first, and the first one is "reset", where you toggle the hold button on and off, then hold down the menu and select buttons for 6-10 seconds. I tried this, and to my surprise it worked! ^_^ I didn't even have to wipe and reinstall, it just started working again like normal.
This makes me nervous though. What if it works for another month or so and then dies for good? I'll be past the one-year warranty by then.
But otherwise I'm glad it's working again, I didn't want to have to get it replaced or anything. That might have left me without an iPod for several days or so.
