The occasional musings of Andy Scheffler
Yes, I know I’m not posting much, I promise to do real posts. I swear! I’m not just saying that and I swear this post isn’t automatically generated. To prove it:
I’m a real Dark Knight now!
Unlike the other four jobs I have at AF levels, I think Dark Knight might get put on hold at 60 while I do other things. I’m normally single-minded about the jobs I level in FFXI, so this is a new thing for me.
[Obligatory “I’m not dead, I’m just bored” post]
Got my Powerbook back, with no cost to me. Yay AppleCare.
We had to mail off our XBox 360, stupid red rings of death. So no DMC4 for Hung and no Lost Odyssey for me (which I haven’t even bought because it came out after the rings showed up). We did, of course, get Smash Bros. I keep forgetting to look up the friend code when I’m at home, though.
I finally used up my 7 day trial of Lord of the Rings Online. It took a bit to get into it, but I think it could have been a game I could play, if I knew anyone else who played and I had the free time to do so. It has a system that is dangerous for obsessive compulsive collectors: the Deed system. They’re like quests in WoW that you don’t have to sign up for, and when you’re done you get a slight upgrade to your character; cosmetic or functional. So you have to go around and do things like kill 60 spiders in the Bree-lands or visit all nine ruins in the Shire, or use a certain ability 350 times, and each one is tracked separately. It’s a smart way to keep people playing and to give them a real incentive to do things instead of just grinding through monsters for experience points. All in all, though, the game felt like a less-polished version of WoW, but with hobbits.
Happy Leap Day!
Or as I usually call it, “Hope That All of My Date Based Calculations in Programs I Wrote Still Work” Day!
I found my Applecare certificate! It’s still under warranty, baby!
So I took my laptop into the Genius Bar today and the guy there basically told me what I already suspected: it’s likely a problem with the logic board on my PowerBook. Since I really kind of needed this computer as a secondary, and I’m not quite ready to buy a new MacBook Pro yet, I’m going to get it repaired. But first, I have to backup the data from it.
But since the computer isn’t working I have to take the hard drive out, put it in an enclosure, and hook it up to another one of my Macs and copy the data. But I don’t have another hard drive around that’s big enough to hold all of that data, so I have to buy one. And I can’t find either of my 2.5″ enclosures, I think
As funny as it would be to walk into Fry’s and buy a 3.5″ drive and a 2.5″ enclosure and see if anyone noticed.
A new chapter of computer troubles begins:
My PowerBook seems to be having memory issues. Hopefully buying a replacement DIMM will fix the issue, but I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to see.
Edit: It may not necessarily be memory issues, I have two DIMMs, and removing them one at a time didn’t fix the problem…
*HEADDESK*
*HEADDESK*
*HEADDESK*
I just realized that my last post was an “Andy screaming at the world” post but I didn’t use my “Andy screaming at the world” icon.
This has been remedied.
“C’mon Andy, come to dinner!”
“But I’m watching the Oscars!”
“Just set it to record!”
“Okay, fine!”
*does so*
Anyone who knows how DVR works and how often the Oscars run late will understand the scream that occurred just a few minutes ago.
I staffed AOD last weekend, and it was the most boring convention I’ve ever staffed. This is a very good thing when staffing ConOps. I got to use my car to lug cargo around, and it actually fits a decent amount of stuff when the back seats are folded down, which is part of the reason why I wanted seats that folded down.
I got the license for my car, and since I have to try and come up with a mnemonic for stuff like this and the three letters were “CTH” I eventually settled on “Capture The Hamster” which is a little too appropriate.
Things at work are a bit weird recently, as people might have guessed. I can say that I am one of the select few people to have survived all three major layoffs at Yahoo!, though. That’s gotta be worth a medal or something.
… I have purchased a new car.