Merry Christmas!

[elfs]

Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Joyful Kwanza. Gleeful Festivus. Warm Newtonmas. Quiet Cephelapodmas. And all praise the Invisible Pink Unicorn.

This morning Kouryou-chan was prepared to explode. She desperately wanted to open her gifts immediately, but we had her hold off long enough to get breakfast into her (and coffee into me; I was up way too late last night. "A dimensional phase shift of this magnitude is highly improbable!").

Omaha got me more pyjamas (yay! Long ones, too; my other three sets are all shorts, modest but not warming) and she paid my Ballmer tax, getting me a copy of XP so I can run the latest and greatest. Now I just need a hard drive to put it on: my last one died. I just need a small one, 100GB or less, and it has to have a five-year warranty: windows seems to eat my hard drives alive.

Kouryou-chan got a ton of stuff: a digital camera, more My Little Pony's, a lot of clothes, a knitting kit. A good haul of loot, all things considered.

I've been trying to write. I had to chop about a thousand words of story out of Dove & the Twins' third day. It was going in the wrong direction: I want Dove to be angry at her co-workers' nosiness into her private life, and having the Twins drop "let's just be friends" on her in the same afternoon wasn't what I really wanted to do to her. This isn't supposed to be a tragedy.

Comments

[sarienpalth.livejournal.com]

At least I'm not the only one who's had weird issues with the lovely Windows and hard disc drive death. Either that, or it could be a string of bad hard discs (and unfortunate luck). Been there.

Happy Christmahanaquanzikah!

Videogame Music Transcribing Sar

[dr-memory.livejournal.com]

"Did Doctor Kleiner just tell us to...get busy?"

If you're ever in San Francisco on a wednesday night, you should come see the Voice of Dr. Kleiner in person:

http://www.askdrhal.com/

[norikos-author.livejournal.com]

It's possible to get a hd with a five-year warranty these days? I thought we were doing good to find one with a three-year warranty.

[sarienpalth.livejournal.com]

I know all the enterprise-grade SCSI drives I've worked with have a five-year warranty. Apparently Seagate (http://www.seagate.com/support/service/warranty.html) offers five-year warranties on consumer grade disc drives, too.

Kinda whack. I remember when two or three year warranties were around.

Pondering Sar

[lionman.livejournal.com]

...she paid my Ballmer tax, getting me a copy of XP so I can run the latest and greatest. Now I just need a hard drive to put it on: my last one died. I just need a small one, 100GB or less, and it has to have a five-year warranty: windows seems to eat my hard drives alive.

Wow, I just love that. We think of '100GB or less' as small hard drives. I like to wax nastolgically from time to time, and recount my two 40MB MFM drives, I thought would last me forever...and then I doublespaced them...and then had to move stuff to diskette....

Most of the HD space I look at adding for clients now, I try not to look at anything less than 1TB. Ah, well... :-)

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[lionman.livejournal.com]

I applaude you! I know it's doable, you just can't really use all the tin bells and whistles of "modern" operating systems or office-suite applications.

I've always thought it would be nice to have a little IBM 701c, with a 3rd party P5/133MHz system board, and wireless card so I could have something small and light to surf and do email with at home.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]