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ravenEddie the computer guy came round this afternoon to try and fix the problems in this computer. Ah, the irony – after a year of not working, Microsoft Word decides to work, on the day we get someone in to look at it. Argh. Not fair.
Anyway, he looked over the whole computer, and he even took the cover of the CPU so I got to see the inside of it – it’s mostly empty space. Eddie suggests getting another stick of memory – maybe 128MB – because it should both speed it up and deal with some of the bluescreen errors, which I’m all for. Having shown me how to do it, he then pieced the computer back together, and helped me back up the registry, as I’m always worried I’m going to screw up something major in the registry editor, so that’s a load off my mind.
Once he’d left, Pedar decided to order something off Amazon. It appears that the stuff he wants can’t be shipped to anywhere outside the United States, so it got sent to Indianapolis. I rang my Bua, just to make sure she knew – she seemed pleased to hear from me. She always seems pleased to hear from me, which is one of the reasons I like her so much. She laughed uproariously at the thought of getting our parcel, and promised to hang on to it.
Because Pedar spent $50, he gets given $30 to spend at Amazon.com – I’m getting it. It should appear within the next six weeks, which I suppose gives me lots of time to decide what I want. All I know at the moment is I want Ursula Le Guin’s Tales of Earthsea, that novella by Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the book M*A*S*H was based on, as it was apparently written by a staunch Republican who based Hawkeye on himself... (what?!)
Talking of M*A*S*H...
The first episode was the simply titled “Hawkeye” – it is the story of how Hawkeye is involved in an accident, taken in by a Korean family, and he realises he has a concussion and must keep himself awake at all costs.
The entire episode seems to be verbal diarrheoa on the part of Hawkeye – he doesn’t seem to be able to stop himself from talking, on various subjects such as delicatessens, the eight bones of the skull – he names them all – and the wonder that is the human thumb. He even juggles onions for a while. My main gripe with the episode is the lack of whumping. There’s a great deal of potential… Hawkeye is obviously badly injured and a little delirious, with blood in his face and hair, but the whumping potential never seems to pan out.
The next episode is as good, with various intertwining plots involving jigsaws and garbage, but with one facet I thought wouldn’t appear in a programme that dates from the Seventies. Hawkeye is with this nurse, and you would assume under normal circumstances that he was fucking her, but he… ahem… can’t. He’s having problems. It is suggested he get himself a hobby. He rejects cutting out newspaper clippings of mineshaft accidents in favour of dumping garbage out of a helicopter onto some guy in a jeep.
The fun never stops.
Anyway, he looked over the whole computer, and he even took the cover of the CPU so I got to see the inside of it – it’s mostly empty space. Eddie suggests getting another stick of memory – maybe 128MB – because it should both speed it up and deal with some of the bluescreen errors, which I’m all for. Having shown me how to do it, he then pieced the computer back together, and helped me back up the registry, as I’m always worried I’m going to screw up something major in the registry editor, so that’s a load off my mind.
Once he’d left, Pedar decided to order something off Amazon. It appears that the stuff he wants can’t be shipped to anywhere outside the United States, so it got sent to Indianapolis. I rang my Bua, just to make sure she knew – she seemed pleased to hear from me. She always seems pleased to hear from me, which is one of the reasons I like her so much. She laughed uproariously at the thought of getting our parcel, and promised to hang on to it.
Because Pedar spent $50, he gets given $30 to spend at Amazon.com – I’m getting it. It should appear within the next six weeks, which I suppose gives me lots of time to decide what I want. All I know at the moment is I want Ursula Le Guin’s Tales of Earthsea, that novella by Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the book M*A*S*H was based on, as it was apparently written by a staunch Republican who based Hawkeye on himself... (what?!)
Talking of M*A*S*H...
The first episode was the simply titled “Hawkeye” – it is the story of how Hawkeye is involved in an accident, taken in by a Korean family, and he realises he has a concussion and must keep himself awake at all costs.
The entire episode seems to be verbal diarrheoa on the part of Hawkeye – he doesn’t seem to be able to stop himself from talking, on various subjects such as delicatessens, the eight bones of the skull – he names them all – and the wonder that is the human thumb. He even juggles onions for a while. My main gripe with the episode is the lack of whumping. There’s a great deal of potential… Hawkeye is obviously badly injured and a little delirious, with blood in his face and hair, but the whumping potential never seems to pan out.
The next episode is as good, with various intertwining plots involving jigsaws and garbage, but with one facet I thought wouldn’t appear in a programme that dates from the Seventies. Hawkeye is with this nurse, and you would assume under normal circumstances that he was fucking her, but he… ahem… can’t. He’s having problems. It is suggested he get himself a hobby. He rejects cutting out newspaper clippings of mineshaft accidents in favour of dumping garbage out of a helicopter onto some guy in a jeep.
The fun never stops.
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on 2002-11-10 01:55 pm (UTC)Re:
on 2002-11-10 02:18 pm (UTC)Ye gods, I'm mad.