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thessalian) wrote2007-03-26 02:48 pm
thessalian) wrote2007-03-26 02:48 pm
Music Hath Charms
There's a certain amount of interesting firewalling going on at the hospital at which I work. There's a filtering system whereby some search keys come up as restricted, but there are a couple of different levels of restricted. There's "You're not allowed to look at it at all!" restricted, and then there's "You can view this but only for so long and on so many occasions" restricted. Livejournal fits in that latter element, and so I don't use LJ much at work at the moment. However, I got really bored, the backlog's looking a lot less daunting and there's news, so I figured I'd treat myself.
Seems I have a new computer waiting for me at home - after some debate, which basically involved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodgyhoodoo and I both putting on our stubborn faces over expenditures and general mishegoss of that nature, dodgyhoodoo found a good deal on a box, wireless keyboard (but I like mine!) and wireless mouse (DITTO! Please can I keep the old accessories?) and picked it up early this afternoon. Now it's all set up bar the games install. I hope my C-drive's still viable - it's got all my stuff on it.
While I am still a little bit concerned about our financial situation as a whole, I have to admit that I'm relieved as well. So much on the Frankenbox was borking like you wouldn't believe. Firefox froze every few minutes - just for a second, mind you, but I was always a little afraid that the next freeze would be the herald of the irreparable BSOD. There were the issues with Sims 2 - the freezes, the intermittent graphics errors, the load time, my gods...
But I suppose it says a lot about me that it wasn't the problems with FFXI or Sims 2 or even Firefox that narked me off the most. No, what bugged me was losing iTunes. It skipped, for pity's sake! Skipped like one of my mothers older and more abused record albums! I don't know much about this kind of protocol, but mp3s are not supposed to skip. And I'd switch it on occasionally, thinking I could deal with the skipping if it wasn't too frequent, if only I could have my music back without being plugged into headphones 24/7. And two minutes into my first track, it would skip, and I'd get frustrated and annoyed and switch it off. I never realised how much I needed to have background music until I didn't have it anymore. Really, I should have started using my old CD player, but I didn't have the space or a spare socket so I could plug it in.
Maybe that's the key to making this job more bearable - music. I could bring my old CD player in here. I hardly get anyone in this office anyway, so I won't offend anyone, and when there are people in here ... well, not everything in my CD collection involves heavy guitar riffs, violent imagery and profanity. Plus I think it also gets radio, so maybe I could have XFM and see what's going on with music nowadays. (I probably won't like it and will go back to Firefly/Serenity OSTs, Moxy Fruvous and Ani DiFranco within a week, but the option's there.) I just have to keep it close enough to where I sit to mute it when a phone call comes in.
Necessity is the mother of invention, I believe the saying goes. Sounds about right from where I'm sitting. Now I just have to get through the day and debate whether I can justify leaving an hour or so early today. My back hurts, my head hurts and I'm tired, and it's only a £10 loss, which I'm making up for by going in entirely by bus nowadays anyway (comparing £20 for four £1 bus trips over a five-day period to the £33-odd I have to pay for a weekly travelcard). Plus, I repeat, the backlog is a lot less daunting. Apparently, killing myself over this fucking stupid job for the last few weeks has had its benefits.
Seems I have a new computer waiting for me at home - after some debate, which basically involved
dodgyhoodoo and I both putting on our stubborn faces over expenditures and general mishegoss of that nature, dodgyhoodoo found a good deal on a box, wireless keyboard (but I like mine!) and wireless mouse (DITTO! Please can I keep the old accessories?) and picked it up early this afternoon. Now it's all set up bar the games install. I hope my C-drive's still viable - it's got all my stuff on it.While I am still a little bit concerned about our financial situation as a whole, I have to admit that I'm relieved as well. So much on the Frankenbox was borking like you wouldn't believe. Firefox froze every few minutes - just for a second, mind you, but I was always a little afraid that the next freeze would be the herald of the irreparable BSOD. There were the issues with Sims 2 - the freezes, the intermittent graphics errors, the load time, my gods...
But I suppose it says a lot about me that it wasn't the problems with FFXI or Sims 2 or even Firefox that narked me off the most. No, what bugged me was losing iTunes. It skipped, for pity's sake! Skipped like one of my mothers older and more abused record albums! I don't know much about this kind of protocol, but mp3s are not supposed to skip. And I'd switch it on occasionally, thinking I could deal with the skipping if it wasn't too frequent, if only I could have my music back without being plugged into headphones 24/7. And two minutes into my first track, it would skip, and I'd get frustrated and annoyed and switch it off. I never realised how much I needed to have background music until I didn't have it anymore. Really, I should have started using my old CD player, but I didn't have the space or a spare socket so I could plug it in.
Maybe that's the key to making this job more bearable - music. I could bring my old CD player in here. I hardly get anyone in this office anyway, so I won't offend anyone, and when there are people in here ... well, not everything in my CD collection involves heavy guitar riffs, violent imagery and profanity. Plus I think it also gets radio, so maybe I could have XFM and see what's going on with music nowadays. (I probably won't like it and will go back to Firefly/Serenity OSTs, Moxy Fruvous and Ani DiFranco within a week, but the option's there.) I just have to keep it close enough to where I sit to mute it when a phone call comes in.
Necessity is the mother of invention, I believe the saying goes. Sounds about right from where I'm sitting. Now I just have to get through the day and debate whether I can justify leaving an hour or so early today. My back hurts, my head hurts and I'm tired, and it's only a £10 loss, which I'm making up for by going in entirely by bus nowadays anyway (comparing £20 for four £1 bus trips over a five-day period to the £33-odd I have to pay for a weekly travelcard). Plus, I repeat, the backlog is a lot less daunting. Apparently, killing myself over this fucking stupid job for the last few weeks has had its benefits.
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Dude. That sounds like music heaven.
Which reminds me, I *must* get you into Girlyman. You'd love the harmonies.
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