Stealth December
Dec. 1st, 2007 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryIt’s December. Does someone want to explain how that happened? Last time I looked, it was October. November appears to have passed in some kind of crazy, magazine-induced blur. One minute, Spring’s just starting, hayfever is kicking in and the end of the school year seems to be several centuries away. Then...
*blink*
...there’s no time left to do anything and the shops have started playing Christmas music, for some inexplicable reason.
Couldn’t be because it’s almost Christmas, could it?
Things have happened in the meantime, though. We finally got the school magazine finished; all it took was some insane hours of work and a slightly elastic deadline. And if anyone needs an A4-sized page of coloured photos seamlessly merged into a montage, then look no further. I have a technique so finely-honed it could lop your fingers off if you got too close.
In more mundane news, I got a new photo for my licence that actually looks somewhat decent. This freakish occurrance is nicely balanced out by the utterly hideous passport photos I had to have taken for the WWC check. Honestly, they’re almost nauseating. I don't really have a forehead that large, do I? Or no hair at all?
*double-checks*
And in happier news, I have a new laptop! And I love it! Even if it is another Compaq. I swore I’d never purchase another one as long as I lived... but it was so pretteh and affordable. And the keyboard is ridiculously superior to the one on my old laptop. I can type without feeling as though I’m going to punch through to the mysterious inner workings. This is considered a bonus in my view.
It’s running on Vista, though. I think I can live with this.
The best bit of all is that this one actually talks to the network. This is a noticeable improvement over my old laptop, although that did talk to the network initially. Then they had a fight and stopped talking to each other. Then made it up for a while. Then cut off communications entirely. Gods know what they were saying to each other while all of this was going on.
Also:
*makes note to try and stop bumping the touch-pad in the middle of typing*
That’s on the verge of becoming annoying.
And now I must run off and arrange to get my music onto this thing. Then it’ll start feeling a lot more like home.
*blink*
...there’s no time left to do anything and the shops have started playing Christmas music, for some inexplicable reason.
Couldn’t be because it’s almost Christmas, could it?
Things have happened in the meantime, though. We finally got the school magazine finished; all it took was some insane hours of work and a slightly elastic deadline. And if anyone needs an A4-sized page of coloured photos seamlessly merged into a montage, then look no further. I have a technique so finely-honed it could lop your fingers off if you got too close.
In more mundane news, I got a new photo for my licence that actually looks somewhat decent. This freakish occurrance is nicely balanced out by the utterly hideous passport photos I had to have taken for the WWC check. Honestly, they’re almost nauseating. I don't really have a forehead that large, do I? Or no hair at all?
*double-checks*
And in happier news, I have a new laptop! And I love it! Even if it is another Compaq. I swore I’d never purchase another one as long as I lived... but it was so pretteh and affordable. And the keyboard is ridiculously superior to the one on my old laptop. I can type without feeling as though I’m going to punch through to the mysterious inner workings. This is considered a bonus in my view.
It’s running on Vista, though. I think I can live with this.
The best bit of all is that this one actually talks to the network. This is a noticeable improvement over my old laptop, although that did talk to the network initially. Then they had a fight and stopped talking to each other. Then made it up for a while. Then cut off communications entirely. Gods know what they were saying to each other while all of this was going on.
Also:
*makes note to try and stop bumping the touch-pad in the middle of typing*
That’s on the verge of becoming annoying.
And now I must run off and arrange to get my music onto this thing. Then it’ll start feeling a lot more like home.
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on 2007-12-01 03:25 pm (UTC)I know exactly where MY November went. *cough*NaNoWriMo*cough*
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on 2007-12-01 11:22 pm (UTC)November seems to be one of those months that just disappears, for any number of reasons. How did your NaNo go? Did you make it?
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on 2007-12-01 08:39 pm (UTC)Yikes.
I am not a Windows Vista fan. It was the install on the new presentation notebook at work -- and I had to end up reformatting and partitioning that computer so I could install XP. (sigh) While it was there, I was ready to tear my hair out trying to do simple, ordinary activities. (And I work with computers for a living, mind you!) Yuck. And good luck!
And laptop/notebook touch pads drive me to the verge of insanity. Seriously. (ugh)
Have I mentioned lately that I love your layout? Very lovely and easy on the eyes...
Congrats on the new computer! That is a wonderful feeling...
(hugs)
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on 2007-12-01 11:27 pm (UTC)Thanks - I'm glad you like the layout. It was mostly the work of
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on 2007-12-07 01:25 am (UTC)I hear you on December having been sneaky this year. Time has gone way too quickly this year!
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on 2007-12-07 05:48 am (UTC)I just wish the month would slow down. There's no way I can get everything done in time!
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