BronxWench

A fast and durable hard drive is never a bad thing.  As for *nix, you will want to be VERY COMFORTABLE with the “normally hidden wires” of an operating system before using it.  I have experience with SCO Unix, Intel Solaris, Linux, and post-Intel Apple OSX.  If you have to try *nix, get an iMac.  All the unix stuff is in there, but stays “hidden” unless you go looking for it.

@Wilde_Guess I read the "fast and durable hard drive" way too fast, started to think latex and naughty thoughts (this is AFF after all) 

@Wilde_Guess I’m an old DOS user, so I’m very much at home with working in the command prompt arena. The daft one and I were tidying, and ran across our ancient notes on tweaking HIMEM on our--really—IBM PS1. We’re hopelessly geeky, and the daft one has at least one laptop that runs Linux (don’t ask me what flavor) and one that still runs DOS.

@Desiderius Price Very good! You get to move to the front of the spanking line.

Sorry about the blood tests, but I really, REALLY do not need my computer to act up today, nor do I need the aggravation of trying to deal with updates on a website when I can barely load the freaking website as it is, and getting a call from the daft one that he needs me to drive down and pick him up at MIDNIGHT tonight, because I don’t mind going to bed at 1am when I need to be up at 5:30am, and when he’s dragging me to a seminar/trade show/dinner thing tomorrow. 

It is either the hard drive deciding to fail or it’s the router. I’m hoping it’s the router, because I can fix that in 5 minutes or less. The hard drive will take a little longer.

I’d backup the hard drive, just in case…. it could simply be time to reinstall.

I’ll replace the hard drive. Reinstalling is simply delaying the inevitable. In the meantime, I have the idiot laptop which has very little I can actually use, but….

Summer’s a great time to visit Australia!  There’s a 50/50 chance you won’t die of heat exhaustion!  Those are good odds, if you ask me.

First I have to live through winter… 

Wine is always a win!

@CL Mustafic  Hope the day has been going well.  (I’m now home, so better keyboard    )

Hope you had a good one, CL!

Happy new year to you too. May your all wishes come true and 2018 turns out to be really prosperous for you. 

I’m starting off the new year with a few pounds of pork loin in the smoker… should be good.

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I’m starting off the new year with a few pounds of pork loin in the smoker… should be good.

Now that’s how it’s done!

Ohhh! On the off chance something from Broadway might make it’s way across the ocean and turn up in Sheffield, I checked, and it will be with me for my birthday in 2018!!! I’m going to have to see it, lol. Then we’ll compare tears of laughter

Yes, Happy Birthday!

Happy birthday, lady!  

Hope you had a happy birthday, DG.

Willow, is that overnight delivery?  Bit warm … maybe I should turn down the thermostat, nah, it’s only oil.

The cats wanted in early today, so it must be cold out there!

It’s a heatwave today! 43 F/ 6 C! I might not wear gloves! 

That’s really sad.  Condolences to all.

Just got back, so a bit late, but so sorry…

On HDDs, I have more issues earlier with Seagate too, though WDs have failed on me.  Most of my SDDs are Samsung, good luck so far.

I went for 20 years without a single HDD failure.  20 years.  I get SSDs and 3 failures in less than a year, all different brands, all top brands.  At least they were only used as starter drives so none of the important info was lost, which was just as well, because when SSDs fail, you rarely recover any data from them.  Still a pain in the arse though.  SSDs will get better and more reliable in time, but at the moment they’re far from ‘bullet proof’ or ‘fail safe’ like sales people keep trying to tell us.

I lose at least 2 HDD a decade and one took a good chunk of writing when I was doing parody more. I’d been thinking SSDs were better, but I never had anyone who could save files for me. I lost a 40k chunk as I didn’t know much on how to. I still miss that angsty story, but recreating it just did not flow. Guess I’ll stay with my HDD/cloud backup. Ineed to figure how to save my email boxes and custom dictionary.

Whenever the internet is working fine, I can take it or leave it, When my connection’s gone I really want to be on there!

Right?

Then again, I depend on a viable Internet connection for work, too.

I tried disconnecting before for a weekend sabbatical once, lasted less than a few minutes….

I’m adding that to the wish list! This one man last night… him. Yes. Hard.

Only if you are putting in an IV and they have rolling veins. I think some medical personnel get a kick out of pain inflicted.

… besides that it would ruin a perfectly good pen you’ll need to autograph your books someday. You need something far more creative, think Edmund Dante!

sure, I think some med personnel do.  I mean, Kinda like my last blood test.  Can’t find a vein?  Well, lets jab you in the back of the hand!  (Never mind, I need to type for my profession).

Unfortunately, it’s not the Holiday Inn Express.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed that she can come home soon.

Poor Freyja… what an awful, stressful week for you all… so sorry, Bronx

*hugs tightly*

And we have her home. The neurologist told us we could do just as much for her at home, since she wasn’t on the IV meds at hospital, so we went and broke her out. She’s not quite herself, and she’s still having small focal seizures, but she’s glad to be home, and we’re so glad to have her back with us.

God, I just loved that scene. The way Sansa and Arya played it. And Bran being all creepy in the corner. But especially Sansa and Arya. Will need to watch on demand just for that scene.

Though I do think they made one tiny goof. The shot of the Night King after the wall comes down should have come after the army marched through, not before. Would have made a good end to the season. 

I can’t believe we have to wait 2 years for the next season …  Bran finally got interesting but dammit man, take control of that dragon and ice the Night King already.

Agree with all… but a political angle occurred to me. With Tyrion as Daenerys’ Hand, and Jaime having marched off to take his men north to fight the army of the dead. The “Lannisters” are actually with Daenerys. Cersei is now isolated in King’s Landing, and has lost the authority conferred by ‘family’ in facts on the ground as they stand.

Also, there’s this “I can’t have children” thing that is going to turn out to be a load of rubbish. Because any author who’s gone to all the trouble of having the recurring motif of incest > insanity, and of setting up Snow and Daenerys in such a fashion, fully intends to have that play out all over again (if nothing changes).

Happy Birthday! 

Happy birthday, Foe!

Happy belated birthday, Foe!

Congrats, good news indeed!

I’m delighted there are no bodies to worry about!

No bodies?  Then what do I do with this shovel? 

Happy birthday, Pippy! And I love that dress… not because of the Dr. but because it’s such a lovely blue!  

Ooohh, I love the Tardis dress!  What a perfect gift! 

Yeah, Happy Birthday! ...slightly lately!

I’ve only read the books so far, my plan is to get a second hand complete dvd box set when it’s finished.

Oh, you must! While the series does diverge from the books, the weddings alone are worth the dvd set.

Yeah, my friends who’ve seen/read both say that they're both great for differing reasons and the series is good in its own right. I’ll just box set and binge. And keep grumbling ‘til Winds of Winter comes out.

The older I get, the more I see that my family members are human and flawed. They kinda suck actually  I know exactly what you mean… We live 10 minutes from my grandma and she’s been really sick. She’s in the same situation as me with my grandpa. He sits in his chair all day watching TV while Grandma runs around taking care of of their big house and their hyper dog. So she’s in and out of the hospital now and I’ve been going over to take care of her place. I’m doing shopping for 2 households, cleaning for 2, taking care of my 4 cats and grandma’s dog 3 times a day. I’m not working… So i thought I’d start trying to concentrate on writing… Thank god for google docs on my phone, that’s the only way I’m able to write constantly inbetween the hospital and grandma’s house and my apartment. I’m not sure what your business entails, but when family doesn’t support your ambitions, it’s doubly discouraging. and Oh god… When they guilt you to do things, it’s super annoying! Kudos on you for having mom move in with you. Jesus, I’m so glad to escape Grandpa at the end of the day. He barks orders at me and when I try to respond, I realize he’s not even wearing his hearing aid. I have to scream at him just to get him to understand what I’m trying to say...  I’m sorry I rambled on your status. I’m going away now!!!

Clover, I love you and words!  

A dogsbody is a British term for someone who does menial tasks, the sort of drudgery that you’d ask a junior intern to do.

And most days, my mother starts with a litany of all the things I must do for her, completely disregarding the fact that I have a husband, two kids, a dog, and a business, all in addition to my trying to actually make a name as a writer. It’s been nearly 21 years of this now, and I think I might have reached my limit with her this time. If she can’t handle things on her own, I’ll arrange for an aide to look after her next time I need to travel. I have neither the time nor the temperament to be what she wants me to be.

Oh! See, I was thinking it had something to do with the corgi! I have a pug attached to my ankles 24/7, and right now, quite literally attached to my leg. Dogsbody seems like an appropriate word for that. 

But damn, tending to all that while trying to carve your way through the professional author world sounds so overwhelming. And for so many years! It’s amazing, and I’m in awe, but I hope you get a reprieve or two or twenty. 

Ack, shit comes in threes, huh?

So apart from that, everything is fine?

JD,  I’m beginning to think it comes in a baker’s dozen around here. I don’t make lemonade; I make lemon tarts. 

Mom’s advanced to antibiotics, the corgi is about to go on her rescue meds because she had another seizure in the wee hours, and I’m not on speaking terms with the daft one at the moment (which will make getting some actual sleep in the car on the way to Boston easier). So, everything’s pretty much fine, and business as usual. 

Happy Mothers Day to all you tough mothers here on AFF.

Happy Mother’s Day!

ack!

We squeaked past the blizzard warning for the city proper, but where I am, it stayed snow a bit longer. We have about 8 inches of heavy wet stuff, and it’s still sleeting lightly. We expect more snow overnight and into tomorrow morning, so we may hit a foot.

Not going to start a fad?  Wearing the cocktail dress and snow boots?  Might be the next greatest thing to start around…  Then all the Hollywood elite will start wearing them to the red carpets and you’ll have started a whole new…  No?  Not likely?  Okay.

Yeah.  I’ve had some minor issues on mine, but overall, I don’t mind it.  Granted, I’ve come to the conclusion I know more about my laptop than the…  techs that actually work at the repair shops around here…  So, either I know it or I ask someone who does…  lol.

Every OS has its virtues, some things can be easier in one or the other.  Privacy/security being different between the two.  Once I know how I’ll pay for it, I’m thinking about creating another desktop, so I’d have separate dedicated windows and a linux machines.

In answer to your question: because the weather system is fucked.  And computers are often wonderful, sometimes bitterly frustrating chunks of metal and plastic.

We have very comfortable guest rooms  

Course the MIL is here so pretend you don’t like me

::snickers:: I’d rather just not like the MIL, but I suppose that would be a Bad Thing.

Well you could join the Succubus Club