...things and stuff.

I'm typing this into an empty text document as my internet connection currently isn't. By the time you're reading this, yeah, obviously things are going to be back to normal, but for now I just need to ramble. EMERGENCY LJ.
I suppose it's one of those things, isn't it? Knowing 'right, no internet' in time to be able to tell people is one thing. But being yanked away from it without any way to tell people 'no internet' because that would involve HAVING internet... that's a pain. And I'm fine when there's no internet because I'm on holiday or something and legitimate internetless is the default. But there being no internet where internet should be because Virgin and/or BT are being ass throws everything out.
And the word internet is starting to not look like a word.

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Hiro: And now I don't have a chatter.
Kamal: I know. I'm going to give you mine.
Hiro: I don't want your chatter, all my stuff was on mine. My address book, my schedule, my debit account, every damn thing!
Kamal: Mine is cooler than yours.

...so yeah. I just found my phone. My nice phone with the camera and the colour screen and the number I remember without looking it up and the battery that lasts longer than a day, and the big ass scrape down the side where it hit the concrete but who cares? (But no Bluetooth or MP3s, eh, that's what the iPod's for.) And that most importantly, isn't Mum's phone. It'd gotten hidden under one of the car seats down by the seatbelt buckle and I never thought to look there.

Weird thing was, when I switched it on for the first time, it'd forgotten everything. All the numbers, the date, the whole lot. It's back to normal now but that was just plain weird.

SUCH a relief.

...dammit, dammit, DAMMIT. My Sims keeps going glitchy on me and crashing. And I've saved it at a point where it crashes within three seconds.

And everything was going so well. Actually got the AI wedding to go well, everyone was getting promotions, I'd decided to let them adopt a kid. Save just before kid gets there. Melissa seems to take to her straight away.
Game crashes.
Restart.
Different kid arrives; name's Nancy, am a dork and start with nicknaming her 'Nano' to fit the scene. I save, and save a couple of times as she gets settled in - and the save of doom happens when she's messing around with Cortana. I don't see anything I can do to stop the crash happening because they're interacting happily.

Once again, dammit.
Maybe this is the game's way of telling me to stay the hell off it.

If I start them up again, new neighbourhood, new everything; I'm going to stay away from big families.

Also seems to crash whenever anyone's aspiration meter hits rock bottom. But that one's a bit more avoidable.

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Edit: Tried downloading a patch to make things better; made things worse. I think I may have to reinstall. Going to at least try and get all the customs I made out of there.

Sigh.

Durandal gave me the biggest freakout it has for a long time earlier. Was just doing stuff in Photoshop and the thing goes and... well. I've seen crashes. I've seen freezes. I've seen kernel panics and screens of death in various colours. (Usually, the thing's rock solid but everything gets twitchy now and then, I guess. I hardly ever *have* to reboot, it spends most of its time in sleep mode when I'm not using it, but do so every so often anyway when stuff starts to get a bit slow.)
I've never seen everything vanish off my screen except for my wallpaper and a couple of blue blocks, then it just going to a plain blue screen with just my mouse pointer on (which moved, OK)... tried to hit the off switch but didn't respond. Dropped the lid to put it to sleep, that worked, then woke it back up again and the switch off and restart message seemed to have gotten through. All safe.

Until I remembered that I hadn't saved the report I was working on for college for Friday. AAAARGH. The day I try to get ahead of myself, grr...

Speaking of computers crapping out, the parents' old one has finally given up the ghost. Mum thinks it's to do with the fan, we've always had trouble with that, but she says it just wouldn't switch on last time she tried to use it. Eh, it was ancient anyway - Windows ME. Says it all, it did good lasting as long as it did. Good job we should have all the stuff from it backed up on my HD, I'm just hoping it hasn't scrambled the files as I've known it do.

Parents are still getting the hang of the Vista comp. The copy of IE7 it has on there has the Norton fraud-protection banner running on it, saying whether or not the website's been checked for phishers and greeblies. It complained about not being able to scan the page once - and this was on the MSN home page, nothing more harmful than it being Microsoft - and Dad got paranoid and ran round rebooting even when I tried to explain... still haven't gotten the hang of 'uh, cancel or allow'? when that comes up either. The touchpad on the thing's twitchy as anything, too, it's very easy to accidentally click something. Overall, though, it's doing pretty good.

Dammit. Why, why, can I not seem to make a single pair of headphones last longer than a few months? If I get a cheap pair, they die. If I get an expensive pair, they die. I'm more or less resigned to getting a new pair of £6 specials from the electronics shop every few months and just putting up with it. Don't know what the hell I'm doing to them that they just give up... I think I need a pair with a chunky cord on them or something but that isn't really practical. And I hate the in-ear ones that come with just about every music player device in existence so kind of screwed there.
Sigh.

Router was a blip. It's not working again now. We're definitely going to order the official one just so no-one can pass the buck.

Some idiot crashed into the bus on the way home from college. No-one was really hurt, though one old lady got thrown out of her seat - she seemed okay - and a kid got a bruise. This dork just pulled out from a side road without looking where they were going, the bus tried to dodge, but just ended up mashing headlights into each other. Spent half an hour sitting around waiting while insurance details got exchanged, the cops got called, we got a spare bus, and everything else... if I'd had had a proper backpack not just my shoulder bag with all my stuff in I'd probably have walked it instead. Would've been as quick. But hate carrying the shoulder bag long distances.

ASJHFGHGFASDHFGFSD thank god LJ's back up. I know I should have done something a bit more productive with my time. Instead? Spent it blathering around a bunch of bookmarks for the hell of it, and making icons. Okay, and started a bit of work on a report for Monday, but most of the actual calculations I still have to do just say INSERT MATHS HERE at the moment. Heh. I have the perfect exuse to do STUFF and I don't do it. *headkeys*

RvB 82 kind of helps make up for it, though.
( Finish this catchphrase: Spartans never die, they... )

AAAARGH.
Next door, do you REALLY have to have the damn lawnmower out at 8am? ...okay, I'm usually up around 8 anyway, but the one day I'm actually tired enough to sleep in and actually get the chance I can't because SOMEBODY is outside making a noise!
*headkeys*

So the RvB site has had a makeover. Is very pretty.
The RT tab's had a new look too.

And there's McKay drawings on the header bar, and he's doing comics of the RT cast. Okay, I'm cool with that and the comics are kinda funny.
Good for him but I worry.

The thing is, I guess I still don't want to see his images of the actual Spartans accepted as fully official canon or anything like that. He gets hero worshipped like his name was already in the little staff member box - yes, he's good, I'll give him that, but there are so many good artists out there! And I'm not counting myself, there are so many people out there turning out the RvB pix that I don't need to. Some of his stuff I kinda agree with, some, no way... there's no way I'll ever accept his Grif, for example.
Let us all imagine our own cast members, make our own decisions, create our own faces under the helmets... all of us. I've seen so many renditions out there and so many beautiful versions of the characters - everyone sees them differently... just let us see what we want, RT.

Yeah, this is sour grapes and illogical rants and me just being selfish but just let me be it for once?
Sorry.

They'd better get all this plane crap sorted soon, that's all I'm saying. How do they expect anyone to survive on a long haul plane without hand luggage?! Never mind the snakes.
Better be fixed by the time I'm off. I mean, that's a month away so I think it'd be sorted but it's still kinda worrying.
Probably kind of a selfish thing to worry about in this situation. I mean, it's Teh Terroristz, but Teh Terroristz are nothing new. I heard about the London bombs when I was in Morocco so...
actually, yeah, I flew back the day after the London bombs and that was all OK. I'm just hoping this works out the same way.

Mum: "Could you scan this and email it to me? :D"
Me: "...you *have a scanner downstairs*."
Mum: "Oh, but this is easier!"

>_>