Another Computer Down!
Dec. 6th, 2019 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseI'm now typing this on my really ancient Gateway laptop. I don't entirely know what happened to the Lenovo, but, frankly, it was never stable to begin with. It was crashing every time I loaded anything, ever, even things where you'd be like, "Really? You can't handle gmail???" So, I mean, when it refused to boot up entirely, it wasn't actually what we would call a 'huge surprise.'
In these situations, I did what I do... go to the upstairs closet in the TV room and dig out one of the many laptops that we stopped using because it had become cumbersome or outdated, but still worked fine. The only thing wrong with this particular machine is that it's still running Windows 7. Otherwise, it's a fine little beast. Humming along, doing its thing.
Not that I've had much time to do any writing or internet-ing.
We've been having a very busy week, which included a trip to the vet by our eldest cat. There was nothing particularly wrong with her, except that over Thanksgiving she had a bout of tooth grinding and then some gross diarrhea. At her age (19), we try to take these things both seriously and with a grain of omg-she's-ancient salt. At any rate, our vet thought that the two things could be related. Apparently, some cats will grind their teeth when they have stomach pain and if she stopped grinding after the diarrhea (which she did), that seems to have been the cause. Why she had the runs is probably the next question, but they're doing a senior blood profile work-up, though anecdotal evidence points to too much turkey (and some vegan loaf) on Thanksgiving day. Piggy lives up to her name by begging for scraps at the table like a doggo.
Otherwise, Willow seems to be doing well. Fully recovered as far as I can tell. Donut free, even though, I GUESS technically, we're still supposed to have her in it. How? Who can do that for so long???
I had another anime night gathering on Monday. Just for myself (for the record, as it were,) I'm going to list the things we watched.I was telling a friend that one of the things I do like about this gathering is that it's kind of a sampler. We watch one or two episodes of things, which give me a chance to see if anything sparks for me, personally.
We watched:
ReLife, which is an anime (and full color webcomic) about a NEET (the Japanese version of a slacker, the acronym stands for Not in Employment, Education, or Training,) who has a very bad night--his mom calls to cut off his stipend, because he failed another interview, and his more successful friends invite him out for drinks and he ends up lying about his situation--and ends up agreeing to become part of an experimental program where he will return to high school for a year, with the aid of a drug that de-ages his looks, so he seems 15 again. I ended up enjoying the premise of that enough to try to read the webcomic, but... I got bogged down in my reading by a subplot. I think I will, however, finish watching the first season on Crunchyroll, because, why not?
We continued to watch Shounen Onmyouji and, I think, maybe are now on to season 2? This is the one about the grandson of Abe no Seimei: a Heian Period Merlin-type figure (though, more like Rasputin, as he was an actual historical figure, albeit shrouded in mystery and become larger-than-life.) It's very shounen, in that there's always some crisis that only our young hero's pluckiness can solve, but I'm enjoying it enough. I do like the shikigami (not to be confused with shinigami) because they are mythical creatures that I know not a lot about.
We watched a few random episodes of a very strange one called Miracle Train, which is about lonely souls who end up on a special subway populated with bishie personifications of Tokyo subway stops.
The last thing we watched was Noragami, about a down-on-his-luck minor war god who is doing odd jobs for 5 yen coins in the hopes of gathering up enough money/believers for a shrine of his own. He gets entangled with a human girl who can see him, and wacky hijinxs ensue. This one, I found mesmerizing. For one, the anime is beautiful. There are spirit creatures (like yokai or or mushi or Hollows) that our hero fights, which, in the anime, are colored in the most amazing way--like lots of hot pinks and neon greens and other eye-popping combinations. The manga isn't bad, either. Since Noragami seems to only exist on DVD, I've been reading the manga and really loving it. It hits a lot of my Bleach buttons, since there are weapons that the gods can use that are formed from the souls of people who died tragically, but are not "corrupted" into the Hollow-type rage/gloom monsters. So, the weapons have personalities, and apparently, that is a thing I like.
So, that's me, right now. Eleanor and I did go see Terry yesterday and it was hard. I wrote a longish comment about it on her Caring Bridge, if you're following that.
In these situations, I did what I do... go to the upstairs closet in the TV room and dig out one of the many laptops that we stopped using because it had become cumbersome or outdated, but still worked fine. The only thing wrong with this particular machine is that it's still running Windows 7. Otherwise, it's a fine little beast. Humming along, doing its thing.
Not that I've had much time to do any writing or internet-ing.
We've been having a very busy week, which included a trip to the vet by our eldest cat. There was nothing particularly wrong with her, except that over Thanksgiving she had a bout of tooth grinding and then some gross diarrhea. At her age (19), we try to take these things both seriously and with a grain of omg-she's-ancient salt. At any rate, our vet thought that the two things could be related. Apparently, some cats will grind their teeth when they have stomach pain and if she stopped grinding after the diarrhea (which she did), that seems to have been the cause. Why she had the runs is probably the next question, but they're doing a senior blood profile work-up, though anecdotal evidence points to too much turkey (and some vegan loaf) on Thanksgiving day. Piggy lives up to her name by begging for scraps at the table like a doggo.
Otherwise, Willow seems to be doing well. Fully recovered as far as I can tell. Donut free, even though, I GUESS technically, we're still supposed to have her in it. How? Who can do that for so long???
I had another anime night gathering on Monday. Just for myself (for the record, as it were,) I'm going to list the things we watched.I was telling a friend that one of the things I do like about this gathering is that it's kind of a sampler. We watch one or two episodes of things, which give me a chance to see if anything sparks for me, personally.
We watched:
ReLife, which is an anime (and full color webcomic) about a NEET (the Japanese version of a slacker, the acronym stands for Not in Employment, Education, or Training,) who has a very bad night--his mom calls to cut off his stipend, because he failed another interview, and his more successful friends invite him out for drinks and he ends up lying about his situation--and ends up agreeing to become part of an experimental program where he will return to high school for a year, with the aid of a drug that de-ages his looks, so he seems 15 again. I ended up enjoying the premise of that enough to try to read the webcomic, but... I got bogged down in my reading by a subplot. I think I will, however, finish watching the first season on Crunchyroll, because, why not?
We continued to watch Shounen Onmyouji and, I think, maybe are now on to season 2? This is the one about the grandson of Abe no Seimei: a Heian Period Merlin-type figure (though, more like Rasputin, as he was an actual historical figure, albeit shrouded in mystery and become larger-than-life.) It's very shounen, in that there's always some crisis that only our young hero's pluckiness can solve, but I'm enjoying it enough. I do like the shikigami (not to be confused with shinigami) because they are mythical creatures that I know not a lot about.
We watched a few random episodes of a very strange one called Miracle Train, which is about lonely souls who end up on a special subway populated with bishie personifications of Tokyo subway stops.
The last thing we watched was Noragami, about a down-on-his-luck minor war god who is doing odd jobs for 5 yen coins in the hopes of gathering up enough money/believers for a shrine of his own. He gets entangled with a human girl who can see him, and wacky hijinxs ensue. This one, I found mesmerizing. For one, the anime is beautiful. There are spirit creatures (like yokai or or mushi or Hollows) that our hero fights, which, in the anime, are colored in the most amazing way--like lots of hot pinks and neon greens and other eye-popping combinations. The manga isn't bad, either. Since Noragami seems to only exist on DVD, I've been reading the manga and really loving it. It hits a lot of my Bleach buttons, since there are weapons that the gods can use that are formed from the souls of people who died tragically, but are not "corrupted" into the Hollow-type rage/gloom monsters. So, the weapons have personalities, and apparently, that is a thing I like.
So, that's me, right now. Eleanor and I did go see Terry yesterday and it was hard. I wrote a longish comment about it on her Caring Bridge, if you're following that.
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Date: 2019-12-07 08:42 am (UTC)Glad you went over to see Terry. I worry about her.