5 posts tagged “tech troubles”

Apparently I spoke too soon on the open office front. I don't know what the heck is going on but it either doesn't like my laptop or my laptop doesn't like open office.

It worked fine yesterday but today it crashed in the middle of me working on an article and won't start up again. I'm trying to fix it but I just keep getting more and more frustrated with it. Maybe Santa will bring me a newer laptop for Christmas this year.

At least I can still research and just make notes by hand in a notebook.

For some reason every time I try to launch StorYBook it crashes my laptop. It's kind of odd because it worked fine a couple days ago when I last used it. So I'm not sure if it's a laptop problem or a software problem.  I'm gonna have to ask my tech guy to look at it.

In other news it's pretty windy around my place right now. We had make sure everything on the back deck and front porch that could blow away was either put in the shed or secured. I've learned my lesson when it comes to high winds. So I guess soon the rain is going to come. Which is fine I guess.

I was planning on working and then having a mini movie marathon with the family tonight.

Now I just have to figure out what to make for dinner.

Nothing too note worthy happened today but I'm trying to post daily so here I am trying to blog.

Thankfully it seems my mp3 player is now fixed thanks to my tech guy. He had to take the hard drive apart which was no easy task. I have no clue exactly what the problem was but now it doesn't matter, my music is back and that's all that matters.

I ended up spending the whole day running around doing errands. I ended up buying a small cork board for myself at this great dollar store near my house. I also got a few things for some craft projects, paid bills, picked up a few odds and ends, and got stuck in a massive rain storm.

By the way dollar stores are great for office supplies. I go through notebooks, paper, pens/markers/highlighters, white out, file folders, and various other small office things like water so buying them at the dollar store saves me a lot of money. Just make sure that the stuff is good quality.

Not to whine but being with my mp3 player is really messing with my flow. I'm used to writing with music on and because of the massive amount of music I've ripped from my C.D collection I don't keep mp3s on my laptop computer. They're all on the desktop which has a much bigger hard drive and is less likely to get messed up by my lack of luck with technology.

I've learned my lesson after too many mishaps and everything is backed up on that thing. Plus my laptop is older and used so I'm prepared for it to die like my other one did. I was not prepared for the loss of my mp3 player though. I'm really hoping that it can be fixed and soon.

In better news I started a new short story and started imputing the details into this story organizing software I have. I'm becoming very fond of this program because it's so helpful in helping you plan out stories. It's called StorYBook and free to download and use.

I'm to only person I know that could drop their mp3 player and cause it to start skipping. Which is what I did this afternoon. Now it stalls every so often when switching songs and then will randomly play bits of the song that played before whatever song is actually playing. It's mildly annoying and I'm really hoping that it can be fixed. I use my mp3 player a lot and I can't afford to replace it now. This whole being an adult and taking care of your bills before buying things you want is such a drag sometimes.

Other then the tech troubles I spent the day trying to organize my week while watching the news about the explosion in Toronto and a couple of movies. As much as I was concerned about the explosion, since a lot of people could have been hurt and one fireman is dead I couldn't take the constant repetition that happens on the news stations.

I highly recommend The Spiderwick Chronicles and Forgetting Sarah Marshell. They were both great movies and although there are some "adultish" moments Forgetting Sarah was really funny.