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katiefooleryIt never pays to ignore signs, does it? And I'm not just talking about the ones that say "No parking here, unless you want your car to be horribly crushed from above by a grand piano" or "Do not press this button. I’m serious. THIS MEANS YOU". There are more subtle signs out there and I've been noticing one or two.
For instance, when you receive your weekly email from Borders and squee with delight to discover that this week’s voucher is offering you twenty-five percent off manga, what should you do? Ignore it? Or take as a sign from above that you should go out and buy copious amounts of manga? Right now. Or at least before the voucher expires.
Unsurprisingly, I went with the second option. That’s one of those signs I have no intention of ignoring. (Although I substituted “four volumes” for “copious amounts”. I’m not made of money, alas.)
The other sign that’s bugging me at the moment is coming from my computer. It’s getting on, is my old desktop. Well, it’s three and a half years old. Once upon a time, it was a sprightly young thing that exploded with energy and jumped up and down, eager to do what it was told. Now, I think it’s turning into a teenager. It’s surly and disobedient. If it actually does decide to do what I ask of it, then it does it in its own good time. Or never. Whichever comes last. It has trouble waking up. I open Firefox and five minutes later, it appears. It tells me I’m doing things I’m not and refuses to listen to what I have to say.
It can’t concentrate on more than one thing at a time and it wanders off from those things when it loses interest in them.
It sleeps in.
For hours.
It also stays up late for hours, but that’s my fault. What’s the point of going to bed before midnight when you’re on holidays? Well, unless you've fallen asleep on the keyboard first, I suppose.
In short, I think today might be the day to do the most thorough backup of files known to Bunne-kind.
After I finish drooling over my manga, of course.
For instance, when you receive your weekly email from Borders and squee with delight to discover that this week’s voucher is offering you twenty-five percent off manga, what should you do? Ignore it? Or take as a sign from above that you should go out and buy copious amounts of manga? Right now. Or at least before the voucher expires.
Unsurprisingly, I went with the second option. That’s one of those signs I have no intention of ignoring. (Although I substituted “four volumes” for “copious amounts”. I’m not made of money, alas.)
The other sign that’s bugging me at the moment is coming from my computer. It’s getting on, is my old desktop. Well, it’s three and a half years old. Once upon a time, it was a sprightly young thing that exploded with energy and jumped up and down, eager to do what it was told. Now, I think it’s turning into a teenager. It’s surly and disobedient. If it actually does decide to do what I ask of it, then it does it in its own good time. Or never. Whichever comes last. It has trouble waking up. I open Firefox and five minutes later, it appears. It tells me I’m doing things I’m not and refuses to listen to what I have to say.
It can’t concentrate on more than one thing at a time and it wanders off from those things when it loses interest in them.
It sleeps in.
For hours.
It also stays up late for hours, but that’s my fault. What’s the point of going to bed before midnight when you’re on holidays? Well, unless you've fallen asleep on the keyboard first, I suppose.
In short, I think today might be the day to do the most thorough backup of files known to Bunne-kind.
After I finish drooling over my manga, of course.
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on 2006-09-18 02:32 am (UTC)Not that any of this is relevant to the kind of signs the majority of your post was about....
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on 2006-09-18 03:02 am (UTC)What a bizarre sign that was, though. Did your co-worker get any sort of explanation, or were all left in bewilderment?
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on 2006-09-18 03:13 am (UTC)*sigh* I did enjoy that work, for a while.
Ooh, I know. Can you suggest a career for me? I am not suited to nusring/carer jobs, nor am I suited to lifting/bending/labour/standing for eight hours a day jobs. Standing for four hours a day is ok though. Any ideas? Also I have no qualifications.
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on 2006-09-18 02:49 am (UTC)I want a sign too....
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on 2006-09-18 03:07 am (UTC)*sniggers*
OK, I lied. But the downside is that there's no guarantee they'll have what you want on the shelf and you usually have to take what's there and fill in the gaps later with Amazon. But twenty-five percent off was too much to pass up! Because the prices aren't actually that reasonable. I only ever buy things there when there are offers on, such as the three-for-the-price-of-two thing they had going for a while.
I'm sure you'll be surprised to hear that I bought some Bleach. :D
*wonders if the computer will cope if I log onto msn*
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on 2006-09-18 03:31 am (UTC)actually, no, i really need eggs...
*hugs Bleach*
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on 2006-09-18 08:09 am (UTC)I should be OK if it dies, though. Most of my stuff is backed-up or online somewhere.
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on 2006-09-18 08:13 am (UTC)I saw a sign a while ago: 3 for 2 on all scifi and fantasy. Sadly, I'm not made of money either so I only bought three books that day (and a 4th one that was going for 99p), but it was definitely a sign to go forth and buy books.
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on 2006-09-18 11:47 pm (UTC)Yes, we have Dell here but I may be able to get a replacement computer from my brother. It would actually have a DVD drive in it! My desktop only has a CD-RW. Oh, and a floppy drive, but I laugh at that these days.
If only we were made of money. You wouldn't be able to move in my house for the books!
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on 2006-09-19 02:32 pm (UTC)Oh yes. And the manga. Don't forget the manga.
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on 2006-09-18 03:43 pm (UTC)I have been upgrading it piece by piece, but I recently looked into buying a new motherboard and CPU and found that it'll be cheaper just to buy an entirely new desktop and network them together, creating my own top-of-the-line but very space-consuming megamonster that I believe I will christen "Multivac" in honor of Asimov (despite the obvious lack of 'vac'). :-)
Buneater, how does one go about finding the time to do everything that modrn life requires and still write? I am going nutso trying to make it happen.
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on 2006-09-18 11:49 pm (UTC)I've never named any of my computers. Everyone else seems to do this but mine always remain nameless. Unless I'm swearing at them, of course.
I have no idea how we're supposed to squoosh writing in amongst everything else that has to be done. We just have to steal the moments when (or if) they come, I guess. :)
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on 2006-09-19 02:33 pm (UTC)*clears throat*
Hi. :D
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on 2006-09-19 05:17 pm (UTC)I actually got that one from someone who was replying to one of Bunn's posts earlier!
(I can't remember who, but they obviously rock.)
I believe it's sort of allowed to go around wherever, but don't quote me on that. Just take it home and cook it supper if you feel the irresistable draw of Data grooving! :-)
I can't look at this icon for long because it makes me laugh too hard, and that hurts.