The LifeDrive dies. T_T

Well, less that 6 hours after I write that review about my lifedrive? It dies. Dammit! I'm hoping to return it tommorow if it doesn't magically recover. This is much less than good. I originally posted about this on the 1SRC forums, hoping that they may be able to provide some ideas…. Although, I expect that I'll be appreciating Staple's great return policy again.

New Palm & A Loom

Woohoo! Two good things happened this past weekend, as well as a ton of really hectic work and almost no time to myself.

Last Friday, I went over and finished weaving off my first project on my 60" Leclerc Nilart Jack-type Floor-loom. Yah, that's a mouthful. The project is about 2 yards long by 12" wide, and it really is just a sampler of what I can do on the loom. It was warped up with Cotton rug-warp (tan) in a balanced twill headling, with floating selvages. The pattern, on the other hand, varied with the weft, which is to say, every 2-6 inches. Lots of fun. I brought the loom home on Sunday.

Other good news: I have finally gotten a new Palm. I bought a Palm Lifedrive from Staples for jsut about $350 USD- a really good deal considering that two weeks ago they were $449 USD. Today I've ordered an Active Case and Cleartouch screen protector from BoxWave.

About the Lifedrive (sort of a mini-review)

Ker-w00t!

Ok, this is going to be a good day!

First off, school didn’t start until noon because the underclassmen have standardized tests this week. That is sort-of good. I does mean that we have a totally wasted 2 hours of school….

BUT! I got a 100% on my Oracle quiz. (Finally, I think that this was the first one all year.)
Also, my brother has let me start to play Morrowind (again, finally).

ANd….. class is over, I’m out.

Walrus

“The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said”

A quote from Alice in Wonderland, but also a reference to the machine used by the original MIT hackers, which printed ‘WALRUS’ upon startup.

Anywase, I’ve switched back to Firefox from Flock. I liked Flock, and it had a lot of potential…. It just wasn’t working right for some sites, and had a huge memory leak somewhere that I couldn’t find. I like it’s method of blogging better- as nice as the Performancing plugin is, it just doesn’t integrate as seamlessly.

I’m using the ‘Flock for Firefox’ theme- if Flock had anything going for it that pretty much everyone agrees on, it’s that it looked awesome. =P

Stay Safe, world.

Sorrow & Forgiveness

People will tell you how much it hurts to lose a friend, whether because they died, or left, or because oyu royally fucked up.

What they don’t tell you is how much it hurts to be forgiven, to be given a second chance to make things right. It took me a long time to realize that I couldn’t live without real friendship. I have friends, that’s true. A lot of people that care about me. But only a very few people that… That are like this.

I apologized today, and it hurt. Oh goddess did it hurt. Not from shame from needing to apologize, or because it was hard to say it. It hurt because I was so afraid that he’d say no, that he wouldn’t forgive me. But he did, and it all came crashing down and I’m about to cry. He did. And for that I am thankful, wonderfully thankful.

Happy?

I’m not sure. But I think that I can start to be happy again.

Firefox owns you

Yet another reason why firefox rocks.

Eternity

As I sit here, high atop this cliff, looking out to the fading sunset in the distance, the stars and moon slowly creeping up ehind be, I feel an unwelcome sense of melancholy. A feeling that nothing will ever happen, that life itself no longer worth living.

I push the feelings aside hard, looking down over the edge, the ground must be nearly two-hundred feet below me. I feel a strange urge to jump… to let it all end in a few breif seconds of flight, the wind rushing past me as I fall.

But I can’t think about that, can not allow myself to dwell on it, or that alternative might seem too good, too inviting.

I stand up and turn away from the last darkening rays of the sun, and I face the moon. and offer myself up to her for she is my mistress, my lady of the dark and the night. Still offering the light of the sun but darker, pure and silver light instead of the harsh glare of the sun. She is tinged with red- a blood red moon appropriate for my mood of late.

I look up, into the stars that appear here, miles from nowhere and decades from anywhere, and I know what it is to gaze upon eternity, the light from these stars reach out from across years, centuries… mellinnia to touch me, to pour their sacred light upon my body. And I know this feeling that clutches me- it is despair.

Cold

I have a picture on the wall above my desc showing a guy out in the middle of a frozen lake, playing hocky on a peice of cleared ice. Next to the rink is a small camper, and below it, the Henry David Thoreau quote: “But for my part, I preffered the solitary dwelling.”

That’s what I felt like today. We were pretty much snowed in, and I kept to myself all day, reading and writing… It’s left me feeling peaceful. A disconnection from the busy, haphazard world around us. I appreciate solitude, as much of a social creature as I am.

Androids

Well, I finished a sketch of an android, and scanned it at school. Now all I need to do is finish it up…. I don’t know if I’ll use paths or what, but eh. How hard can it be, right?

 

 

Right.

Mice and Men

    Woohoo!

Well, almost a ‘Woohoo!’… I bought a new mouse yesterday, the not-so-new Logitech MX1000 laser mouse. I was really considering either one of the G-series or one of the Razer’s… However, I would have had to order them, as there isn’t a shop in town that carries them. >_<

That’s really not something I like to do with something as personal as a mouse or keyboard, so I settleed for buying this older mouse at the same price. I pretty much already knew it was the one I was going to buy, but still. And to top it off, it didn’t even work, and I’m waiting for Logitech’s support suplier to send me a new reciever base- I hope that fixes it.

I’ll give Logitech some credit- they were extremely fast and curteous with my request for support, and offered to replace the reciever/charging base in the first email. I tried what they suggested (even though I’d already done all of it) and it still didn’t work, so I emailed them back with that information and my shipping address. I’m almost positive that it is an overseas company, but with emails that doesn’t matter much, and I expect that they’ll ship it tommorow.