3 dead apples

[alias_sqbr]

So first, a month or two ago, I broke Cam's laptop (I spilled water on it in just the right way so that it looked like none had gotten into it but it was actually totally screwed). I felt REALLY bad about it, and thus reacted as I do to feeling really bad about something eg by talking and thinking about it as little as possible.

Cam got himself a new cheap small Eee PC laptop and an iPhone (he needed a new phone anyway)

And then Cam lost his iPhone. Which (unlike the laptop) was covered by insurance but he's still waiting on the replacement.

And just now? MY laptop has broken. It's been slowly dying for a while but it's gone from "a bit flakey" to "refusing to start for hours on end" so during a brief up-time I transfered across any files I wanted to keep and am now on my desktop machine in a rather unstable position on two chairs (Kira is not impressed. When I'm on the couch she gets a lap! My icon is no longer accurate :( )

ARGH. And of course with me not working any more our finances are WAY tighter than they were, so we can't just go out and buy a new one. Current plan is to buy a large-screen windows laptop (Cam sometimes gets sick of the teeny screen and processing on his Eee, and if I look at a small screen for more than about a minute I get a headache) and share it. But not for a while :(

Oh, and I had insomnia last night so feel all wierd AND a pigeon crapped on my bedsocks. Which I had been watching dryig on the line for a day or two with cold toesies. Luckily I manged to find two clean ones even if they don't match.

Anyway, as previously mentioned, I don't actually want to talk or think about it, I just needed to vent. Supportive comments will probably make me feel worse rather than better because I am odd like that, but if you really want to say something cheering give me a link to something happyfying.

To start you off: Dude watching with the Brontes.

Comments

[angriest.livejournal.com]

Not being supportive, but I just have to say that "a pigeon crapped on my bedsocks" is pretty much the weirdest complaint I've heard this month.

[alias_sqbr]

Yeah, as much as I'd rather Life wasn't picking on me it gets points for creativity :)

[loic.livejournal.com]

A pigeon pooped on my leg and my shorts and several pages of my hardcover Spook Country that I was reading yesterday in Central Park in New York. Stupid pigeons.

[alias_sqbr]

Ok, you win. Bedsocks are much easier to wash.

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

At least it didn't try to assassinate you for your iPod or anything.

[grahame.livejournal.com]

Didn't your wife think it into doing it though? :)

[loic.livejournal.com]

She is claiming to have mind power over the birds this week...

[shehasathree]

wah?!
http://kindkit.livejournal.com/382818.html
http://www.starz.com/promotions/bunnies?src=starz_mktg&med=email&content=20090714_s_harrypotter2&cmp=bunnies

[alias_sqbr]

Yay! :)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

"Supportive comments will probably make me feel worse rather than better because I am odd like that"

You suck?

[alias_sqbr]

I was going to say "That doesn't mean I want UNsupportive comments" but your comment made me giggle for about a minute so maybe I do :D

(Though before I'm hit with a deluge of well meaning vitriol, I'm pretty sure any more insults would not have that effect)

[ataxi.livejournal.com]

I put a question mark in there!

[alias_sqbr]

Heh. Yes you did, good point :)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/createplayer.php?

Just scroll down and read the character classes, they still make me giggle, even after 2 years.

[alias_sqbr]

On the downside, now I want pasta :)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

That's okay, as a pastamancer you can summon dry noodles and then turn them into delicious dishes.

KoL is not a game for the hungry. :-)

[alias_sqbr]

And I am ALWAYS hungry :) (I actually tried KoL a while ago, had fun for a while then got bored of it)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't have gone back to softcore before starting my HCO loop. I don't want to leave my shinies again. D:

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

I quite like HC, but HCO. Difficult!

They've recently allowed you to use your soft core skills after a HC quest success, did you know?

At least I seem to remember something announced about it at the time.

Who's your character?

I am Falafniral and Oblongata.

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Well yeah but I'm not interested in aftercore just yet - I usually ascend the same day I beat the NS. And after doing two low-skill HC runs and then a black cat run it's just: omg llama lama, omg imp, omg pilgrim shield, omg +adv equipment, omg summoning skills, etc. I want some more skills before I start doing The Sea.

My char's Enna.

(Ok, Titles aren't that hard)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

I like to collect the level 30 trophies, so the sea is good for that for me.

It requires a bit of patience though.

Actually quite a lot of patience.

But I'm getting there.

Re: (Ok, Titles aren't that hard)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

Wait until Crimbo's scaling monsters? One trophy a year!

Re: (Ok, Titles aren't that hard)

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

Most trophies I get are by accident, but I am rather enamoured of that shiny, shiny level 30 one.

And of course being big and strong is of great use in Hobopolis and the Slime Tube, so it's all good.

The last two Crimbos have been a lot of fun.

[mattsmodernlife.livejournal.com]

Something happyfying, eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ-jv8g1YVI

[alias_sqbr]

*is happyfied* :)

[mattsmodernlife.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service :3

[sonictail.livejournal.com]

Let us know if you need computing gear, we don't have much in the way of laptops at the moment tho and it sounds like puting them near you is dangerous.

But with your current state setting up a proper work environment at home would be a good idea. The productivity of a work environment combined with the usefulness of being at home.

[alias_sqbr]

Nah, it's ok, using the desktop machine is working ok. But thanks.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you could claim Cam's laptop under your contents insurance could you?

But having had two laptops and ipod touch stolen back in May, I feel for you.

[alias_sqbr]

*cough* Insurance?

Our house and location is such that we're very unlikely to be stolen from but set off all the "high risk" warnings for insurance companies so the premiums make it not worth it (and even now I don't regret not getting insurance, because the amount we would have paid over time would be way more than we would have been reimbursed)

[emma-in-oz.livejournal.com]

In the ultimate career limiting move, my ex housemate broke his boss's new computer, imported from America, on the day it arrived.

There, what you've done is nohting in comparison.

[alias_sqbr]

Heh, thanks, that does make me feel better :)

[grahame.livejournal.com]

If you need to borrow a laptop, I've just bought a new one and I've got an early-2008 Macbook which you could borrow. DVD drive is flakey and plastic is a bit broken (it got dropped), but there's not much wrong with it. I'm going to use it as a server at some point, but you could have it in a few days (once I've got sorted with the new one) and keep it as long as you need..

[alias_sqbr]

Oh wow that would be amazing. I would try very very hard not to break it and everything.

[nixwilliams.livejournal.com]

sorry, too tired to write much, but omg dude watchin' is HILARIOUS!

[alias_sqbr]

It is enough to know I bring others joy :)