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My life is weird
Dec. 16th, 2008 07:52 am
Sis and Mum finally put up our tree last night. The tree looks very drunk!
I have no idea how that happened. We never have a real tree, BTW, so it's the same tree as last year. I've put the tree up several times myself and there's no way it could bend like that. I have a horrible feeling it's the floor beneath it that's moved...
After struggling for months to beat the last fic I wrote out of my muse, in two weeks I've got nearly 8,000 words done for my sequel to Dreamwalker. I need to slow it down though; I have many other things that need my attention. (I think maybe I'm motivated by deadline: my OU course starts next May and I suspect that'll be the end of my fic writing for a while. Or, at least I'll have to slow it down a lot.)
My PC problem shows no sign of resolving itself. I finally gave in and took out the new hard drive (I installed it as an external drive instead), but the CD drive is still not recognised by the PC. Neither are the USB sockets in the front of the PC which I think use the same connectors though, oddly, the memory card slots on the same panel still work fine. It's like the computer is deliberately trying to confuse me.
I have another problem which is kinda irritating: I can't play videos in QuickTime. Or, at least, not the iTunes videos. I get the sound, but no video, just a green screen. Movie trailers streaming online still seem to play. (And yes, I have the latest version of QuickTime.) I know iTunes is using this snazzy new codec, but that's supposed to be part of the latest QuickTime, so what's going on? Even stranger, a couple of music vids I'd previously downloaded from iTunes, and which used to play fine, are behaving the same way.
Sigh.
I have no idea how that happened. We never have a real tree, BTW, so it's the same tree as last year. I've put the tree up several times myself and there's no way it could bend like that. I have a horrible feeling it's the floor beneath it that's moved...
After struggling for months to beat the last fic I wrote out of my muse, in two weeks I've got nearly 8,000 words done for my sequel to Dreamwalker. I need to slow it down though; I have many other things that need my attention. (I think maybe I'm motivated by deadline: my OU course starts next May and I suspect that'll be the end of my fic writing for a while. Or, at least I'll have to slow it down a lot.)
My PC problem shows no sign of resolving itself. I finally gave in and took out the new hard drive (I installed it as an external drive instead), but the CD drive is still not recognised by the PC. Neither are the USB sockets in the front of the PC which I think use the same connectors though, oddly, the memory card slots on the same panel still work fine. It's like the computer is deliberately trying to confuse me.
I have another problem which is kinda irritating: I can't play videos in QuickTime. Or, at least, not the iTunes videos. I get the sound, but no video, just a green screen. Movie trailers streaming online still seem to play. (And yes, I have the latest version of QuickTime.) I know iTunes is using this snazzy new codec, but that's supposed to be part of the latest QuickTime, so what's going on? Even stranger, a couple of music vids I'd previously downloaded from iTunes, and which used to play fine, are behaving the same way.
Sigh.
