Open Letter to my London Friends & misc

[thessalian]

Dear London-based friends (or anyone who might be in London before April):

There's a free exhibit on the evolution of the English language on at the British Library 'til about April. Anyone game to come with me to see it? Looks pretty interesting. But then, I would say that. *g*

So I finally slept reasonably well. This is a good thing, as I have Things To Do today. I have to go out and get some groceries, and a screwdriver. Then I have to ... erm, well, dissect Hardison. Want my hard drive, damnit! Anyway, after that comes the usual deal of reinstalling everything. So far I've got the essentials - Firefox, Trillian, iTunes, Avast, stuff like that. And I'm working on getting the Dragon Age 2 demo on here so I can see how pretty it looks with the new graphics card (and not have it grind to a slow crawl during some bits of combat - so annoying when it did that on Hardison) so there's that 'essential' dealt with. But I've got to put my Sims game and expansions on, and Dragon Age... As much as I'm hoping to be able to rescue the hard drive out of Hardison for my music and writing and stuff, I'm just as much hoping that I'm not going to have to go digging through the Sims 3 fan sites and Bioware forums for all my custom content. I will if I have to, but I'd rather not if I had my druthers.

Getting a new computer is really kind of weird sometimes, y'know? I bitch-bitch-bitch about how I don't really want to reinstall everything, but there's a kind of quiet joy and pride that comes out of getting it set up just as I like it. I'm not really sure what's up with that, but part of it at least was the setting up of my Windows 7 desktop theme. I really like this theme thing. I've got the whole thing set up to reflect my current Dragon Age obsession, and I'll be happy when I find another few good wallpapers to add to the shuffle. Sometimes good desktop wallpaper is hard to find! And the downloading is kind of sucky, but hey; when it's all set up, it just feels more or less awesome. Can't say fairer than that.

So now Dragon Age 2 has downloaded and so I shall install it. And then we'll see what we see. I have to finish my coffee and then I have to go dismember Hardison. (Poor Hardison; we've had to move to Plan M.) A busy-ish Saturday, then.

Comments

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Just a thought, but if you can't rescue Hardison's hard drive, wouldn't allllllll your Sims mods be on my PC still??

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Nope; you've got Sims 2 on your PC. I've got Sims 3. Different set of mods. They didn't even have the really good custom content for Sims 3 until a few months ago. But thanks for the thought!

I am sure that, once I have devoured this strength-giving burger and chips, I will be able to retrieve Hardison's hard drive, even if I have to disassemble the entire case to its component bits! Mwahaha!

As to luring you here for exhibit, just let me know whenabouts is good. :)

[mitchy.livejournal.com]

Oh and the exhibit looks good, I could be lured into London for that :)

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

I might well be available for the language evolution thingy, depending on when exactly you want to go.

[minmorton.livejournal.com]

I'm up for the exhibition too - dear British Library - your exhibitions are just the right size ... and I probably haven't seen you guys since ... er ... Thalinoviel's birthday last year I think and that's a long time