Technology Is Not My Forte, Can You Tell?
So far this week, I have been yelled at by a Polish man, a woman from Africa, and a couple from New Jersey; screwed up to a truly impressive degree a number of theoretically sraight-forward calls, given mself an allergy attack grooming a very large, very fuzzy, very resistant rabbit; spent about seven hours total trying to put new music on my mp3 player (and then trouble-shooting its epic fail); gotten an average of 5 hours of sleep a night; and escaped doing the chicken dance at work only through sheer dumb luck. I CAN HAS FRIDAY NOW PLZ?
On the bright side, I think I may have possibly (this extremely, incredibly tentative) have finally fixed the problem I've had with my mp3 player since last year wherein every time I try to put music on it it freezes the program so I have to force quit with task manager, am unable to open it again without restarting my computer because according to my computer the mp3 player has ceased to exist, and must, when I shut my computer down, no matter how long ago it was I closed out the program and unplugged the mp3 player, shut it down with the power button because in regular shutdown it takes literally 4-5+hours to turn off. At the very least, I managed to successfully fill my player up with new music I actually listen to without anything freezing and dying, so I have my fingers crossed.
Speaking of my mp3 player, I'm not the only person who names their electronics, right? What can I say? I like to anthropomorphize things - I figure with all the time I spend talking to/yelling at my computer, it ought to have a name I can refer to it by. Which is why my laptop is named Max, short for Mini-Max, after Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing - the logic being that much like Duo, my little Dell is fairly steady and hard-working, just a slow to get going in the morning, a bit ditzy, and with a twisted sense of humor. Similarly, I named my Creative Zen mp3 player Reno because he only works with a great deal of prodding, coaxing, yelling, and threatening, and even then he doesn't work very /well/ (mstly in reference to the music loading/deleting problem of doom, obviously). And he is frequently spouting obscene and/or homoerotic lyrics, of course.
On the bright side, I think I may have possibly (this extremely, incredibly tentative) have finally fixed the problem I've had with my mp3 player since last year wherein every time I try to put music on it it freezes the program so I have to force quit with task manager, am unable to open it again without restarting my computer because according to my computer the mp3 player has ceased to exist, and must, when I shut my computer down, no matter how long ago it was I closed out the program and unplugged the mp3 player, shut it down with the power button because in regular shutdown it takes literally 4-5+hours to turn off. At the very least, I managed to successfully fill my player up with new music I actually listen to without anything freezing and dying, so I have my fingers crossed.
Speaking of my mp3 player, I'm not the only person who names their electronics, right? What can I say? I like to anthropomorphize things - I figure with all the time I spend talking to/yelling at my computer, it ought to have a name I can refer to it by. Which is why my laptop is named Max, short for Mini-Max, after Duo Maxwell from Gundam Wing - the logic being that much like Duo, my little Dell is fairly steady and hard-working, just a slow to get going in the morning, a bit ditzy, and with a twisted sense of humor. Similarly, I named my Creative Zen mp3 player Reno because he only works with a great deal of prodding, coaxing, yelling, and threatening, and even then he doesn't work very /well/ (mstly in reference to the music loading/deleting problem of doom, obviously). And he is frequently spouting obscene and/or homoerotic lyrics, of course.