Re: Monthly chat August 2016
@Aprone,
Reading through your posts had me nodding, because while your talents and amounts of knowledge and resources are different from my own, I do know the feeling to some extent, having been expected to provide musical entertainment for weddings, funerals, graduation and birthday parties and other trivial family reunion such things on a moment's notice, the most annoying probably being this one time I was asked to teach a kid how to play guitar who went and looked at a ton of youtube videos of other people playing and ignoring everything I said to the point where it almost seemed like he was trying to coach me instead. In the end, I told him kindly, I hope, to get lost.
Between that and fixing people's computers because I know how, or at least, that's what people always seem to think, it can get frustrating. Oh, and I'm supposed to have a bunch of software lying around, but I think I've hashed this subject far too many times.
; the part I didn't cover was the essay writing pleas and the requests to help so-and-so cheat their way through college by texting them answers during exams and such. I've almost considered making money out of nonsense of this caliber.
@Dark,
Your bit at the end about how useful things can actually be and how one grows to miss them when they don't have them around reminds me of how much fun and convenience I got out of braille lites and such years and years ago. My wife has a braille sense with a GPS gadget and a bunch of other features I have yet to messed with, but I'm still of a mind that whatever it takes to get the job done is something we should all respect. While I prefer a more or less mainstream market nowadays, I don't see anything wrong with victors or even older devices; we actually have a book reader from the library of congress, or whatever this thing is actually called, which a certain 8 month old is very enthused
by for some reason. Sorry about the kids kicking your seat; I promise they weren't mine.
Speaking of children, we're welcoming a third to the family!
My last windows PC has finally called it quits, which means I'm doing a lot of nothing nowadays, a somewhat annoying issue given that I'm supposed to be writing up database entries for things... I honestly don't know what happened to it either, save that one day it was working fine, then it started lagging a bit, and then the drive started sounding rather interesting, as if it were microwaving popcorn... There went my crazy party cards and just about everything else. Oh why oh why!
It's one of those things where I'm going, do you fix it, or do you buy a new one given you've had this one for nearly three years? Either way, such things will have to wait until I have the money to do it, thus the mac is getting a lot of abuse from me. I borrowed a Lenovo thinkpad that
has no numpad and am trying my best to Nocturnise it for all my wants and needs, but sadly, no numpad, a stupid joystick looking thingy in the middle of my keyboard, and an overly sensitive trackpad make this one an annoyance. They just, don't make PC's like they used to. I'm dreading windows 10, but I know finding something with 7 is gonna be hard as rocks... Guess we'll see how this one plays out
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