I'M GOING INSANE!!!
Nov. 3rd, 2009 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
a_silver_storyOkay, I'm trying to post the Epilogue for your Hallowe'en treat, but my internet has gone DOWN! (and I mean down!)
Yes, at 5:45, fifteen minutes after the people who can fix my internet left work, the Internet died. This greatly upset myself, and my housemate.
After an hour of no Internets, we were so bored, we ended up making Jenga tower out of DVDs. I won.
So, in despair, I have come to the University Library in the hope of possibly posting the Epilogue. I put it in a nice neat Word.docx, all typed up, self-beta'd and ready to be copied and pasted onto LiveJournal. I sit down at the computer, I swtich it on, I log in .... the systems are too old to read the Office 07 .docx format. Joy. The 2003 one they have also hates me so much, it refuses to convert it for me into something it can read.
I think "Well, it's not the end of the world ... I'll just go home and save the file in different formt. No biggie, and everyone can do with a walk every now and then". So I walk all the way home, convert the file to rich text, and walk all the way back. What's the issue now? Oh, the computer bank I've been using before has been closed for cleaning, so I need to go to the other one in the Reading Room. Fine, okay.
I discover that these read 2007 .docx files and go silently mental.
... still an issue? Clearly.
The bastard thing won't read my USB! I've tried about three different stations, and nothing will accept my little pink USB pen exists.
I promise I will get this Epilogue up tonight, even though everything is against me. I think God might be Gwack (I typed that and thought: 'duh? What has that shouty man with the signs and sandwich board on Chester highstreet been telling you all this time?') because he's the only one who would possibly try and stop me from doing anything.
Whether my sanity will survive until morning remains questionable.
You better all love me.
And I mean love me lots.
Even if you don't like the ending ... which I think you might not ...
It's bit ... RTD ....
EDIT:
Points if you can guess the DVDs you can't see.
I think the clear message here is: DO. NOT. TAKE. THE. INTERNETS. AWAY. FROM. GEEKS.
Yes, at 5:45, fifteen minutes after the people who can fix my internet left work, the Internet died. This greatly upset myself, and my housemate.
After an hour of no Internets, we were so bored, we ended up making Jenga tower out of DVDs. I won.
So, in despair, I have come to the University Library in the hope of possibly posting the Epilogue. I put it in a nice neat Word.docx, all typed up, self-beta'd and ready to be copied and pasted onto LiveJournal. I sit down at the computer, I swtich it on, I log in .... the systems are too old to read the Office 07 .docx format. Joy. The 2003 one they have also hates me so much, it refuses to convert it for me into something it can read.
I think "Well, it's not the end of the world ... I'll just go home and save the file in different formt. No biggie, and everyone can do with a walk every now and then". So I walk all the way home, convert the file to rich text, and walk all the way back. What's the issue now? Oh, the computer bank I've been using before has been closed for cleaning, so I need to go to the other one in the Reading Room. Fine, okay.
I discover that these read 2007 .docx files and go silently mental.
... still an issue? Clearly.
The bastard thing won't read my USB! I've tried about three different stations, and nothing will accept my little pink USB pen exists.
I promise I will get this Epilogue up tonight, even though everything is against me. I think God might be Gwack (I typed that and thought: 'duh? What has that shouty man with the signs and sandwich board on Chester highstreet been telling you all this time?') because he's the only one who would possibly try and stop me from doing anything.
Whether my sanity will survive until morning remains questionable.
You better all love me.
And I mean love me lots.
Even if you don't like the ending ... which I think you might not ...
It's bit ... RTD ....
EDIT:
Here's the DVD Jenga Tower of DOOOOOOOOM
Points if you can guess the DVDs you can't see.
I think the clear message here is: DO. NOT. TAKE. THE. INTERNETS. AWAY. FROM. GEEKS.
