A Proper Update, Will Wonders Never Cease...

So the other day the new harddisks arrived. This also meant disk swapping... my secondary hdd would become my primary one, and one of the mirrored 80gb ones from the file server (which were being exchanged for new 160gb drives) would become my secondary (mostly games) hdd. Of course this meant a total reinstall of my system.

Argh.

One day I'll also remember to do things like save my irc aliases, my email message rules and other stuff that's not crucial but still a time consuming pain in the ass to re-do.

I now also have Windows Candyland Crackhouse XP installed. That particular name for XP comes from a co-worker of PreZ's, and it's kind of apropos, but I still use it (in the silver setting) rather than the classic Windows skin. I also named my Unreal Tournament 2004 server Candyland Crackhouse... and I forgot to turn off the 'advertise server' option. Within seconds I had players logging on. I guess crackhouses have appeal... ;)

Speaking of UT2K4, I love Onslaught. It rules. And I'm sure I'll need UT2K4 Onslaught Players Anonymous soon ;) Thanks to vinlander71 for being a more than willing team member to wile away a couple hours with :)

Saturday we bought our tickets to Alegria, which I'm really looking forward to. Wednesday was another interesting karate class... who needs ab machines when you can just get punched in the stomach for several minutes by class mates (and the sempai in my case), and also punch them in the stomach. Ah the things you do for training. And this wasn't incidental punching, this was consistently getting punched, hard.

Sunday evening darktor came over which was good. We went to eat at Goodfella's, which wasn't. The food was tasty, but the service was slack and it took ages for our food to arrive. Yes, it was really busy, but some of it was still pretty inexcusable. We should have gone to Applebees, there we'd probably have gotten Kristin who seems to always work when we go there, and who remembers us and is an attentive waitress.

Spent most of the rest of the evening talking, playing some games and working on some sewing projects. PreZ got fitted for his jacket along with some other tweaking. We did some fitting and tweaking on my corset and I made new modesty panels for it. Scary to think that it's been a year since we started work on it, more even. It's nearing completion, finally. I need to do some handstitching on it, and I'll save some other stuff that we can do next week or so if we head down to Kit's place. PreZ crashed just after 4am, Kit and I pottered on until about 5.30am, making it all the more reminiscent of the late night/all night corset making sessions we were doing last year. Was fun, though sitting on the floor and not keeping my back straight whilst hand stitching stuff means I could do with a masseuse right about now.

Computer Frustrations

One other nasty I discovered whilst reinstalling my machine... installing the iPod software whilst the iPod was in the docking station made it wipe my iPod. Now I hadn't installed loads of mp3s on there yet, but there were about 500 songs, now there is nothing and I get to start over again.

Grrr.

And my computer decided to crap out earlier. Windows had some kind of seizure when I did something, and after reboots it would give me a 4-bit 800*600 screen. Not fun. Currently it's just turned off and cooling down, because sometimes that's an issue with it (don't you love technology), and I'm on PreZ's Windows machine right now.

So the fact that my computer isn't working right now means I can't load songs onto my iPod, which means I'll have no musical accompaniment on the train when I go to karate in 45 minutes. Just a book will have to do I guess.

*whine*bitch*moan*

Now all it needs to do is to start raining again really hard when I'm on my way to the station, and my umbrella needs to blow inside out ;)