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Another day, another post
1. On the computer front... Mike helped me out a great deal today. My new computer is up and running, mostly. Mike loaned me a cable and his expertise, and ultimately a net card as well, and helped format and insall everything (well, when I say "help" I mean he did it all and I didn't even watch, I went to work ^_^ ). MIke is cool. But the video card has problems and I need to take it back. So, of the things I planned to put into my barebones system orignally, the score is thus:
A. Floppy Drive. Did not fit. Installed a new floppy that I had instead.
B. Hard drive. Did not fit, and is impossibly old and small. Bought a new 40 gig.
C. CD-R drive. Was impossibly old and slow (2x we think) and also didn't work correctly. Pulled the 32x from my 200mhz BEAST 2.
D. Net card that I bought. Didn't work. Cheap piece of garbage, I should learn not to buy cheap just to save three bucks. Mike gave me an extra he had.
#. Video card. heat sink moves about waaaay too much, causes major problems. Need to exchance for a new one.
So basically everything I wanted to install into this machine, I had to substitute something else. Except for the neon light. ^_^
2. I've been plotting my Oz story for a while now, I have a good idea of where to go with it. In the meantime I've listened to my Twelfth Night cd a few times. I keep thinking how much fun it would be to write a prose interpretation of Twelfth Night with characters from Ranma 1/2. As Gene said in his journal, a writer is never at a loss for ideas. I don't know if I plan to write my Oz anime crossover story. I don't know if I plan to write my Twelfth Night One Half story. But I did locate the full text for the play online, just in case. ^_^
3. Watched half of Lord of the Rings tonight. I have the pan and scan version... maybe I should have waited instead of buying from QFC, but I'm a creature of habit, I'll buy what's in front of me nine times out of ten rather than wait for something better. Still, what a wonderful movie. They did such a good job on the first third, one wonders if they can manage to finish the second and third parts without faltering along the way.
A. Floppy Drive. Did not fit. Installed a new floppy that I had instead.
B. Hard drive. Did not fit, and is impossibly old and small. Bought a new 40 gig.
C. CD-R drive. Was impossibly old and slow (2x we think) and also didn't work correctly. Pulled the 32x from my 200mhz BEAST 2.
D. Net card that I bought. Didn't work. Cheap piece of garbage, I should learn not to buy cheap just to save three bucks. Mike gave me an extra he had.
#. Video card. heat sink moves about waaaay too much, causes major problems. Need to exchance for a new one.
So basically everything I wanted to install into this machine, I had to substitute something else. Except for the neon light. ^_^
2. I've been plotting my Oz story for a while now, I have a good idea of where to go with it. In the meantime I've listened to my Twelfth Night cd a few times. I keep thinking how much fun it would be to write a prose interpretation of Twelfth Night with characters from Ranma 1/2. As Gene said in his journal, a writer is never at a loss for ideas. I don't know if I plan to write my Oz anime crossover story. I don't know if I plan to write my Twelfth Night One Half story. But I did locate the full text for the play online, just in case. ^_^
3. Watched half of Lord of the Rings tonight. I have the pan and scan version... maybe I should have waited instead of buying from QFC, but I'm a creature of habit, I'll buy what's in front of me nine times out of ten rather than wait for something better. Still, what a wonderful movie. They did such a good job on the first third, one wonders if they can manage to finish the second and third parts without faltering along the way.