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And the second one bites the dust. Following the deserved cancellation of Night Stalker, CBS has canned Threshold.

Which, isn't exactly undeserved. But the background characters of the team were entertaining..especially Spiner. Unfortunately, the show had no ability to maintain it's own canon.

Supernatural Vid rec

and last post for the night. Promise!!

Requiem by Scealai

Normally, I don't really love vids set to instrumental only music, but this is definitely the exception. Scealai makes excellent choices of image sequences and the pacing fits the music perfectly. There are several mini-stories that I spotted throughout the vid and it holds together well despite spanning most of the season. In the middle, there was a little bit of a gap in story sequence I think(just in how the vid told the stories, not the episodes or anything), but that was about the only flaw I spotted. Definitely one of the best supernatural vids that I've seen (though I will admit to being lazy in my viewing).

Go, download, and watch. Really. Cause I need someone to discuss it with:)

Grr...argh

The technology trolls continue to harass me. I think installing the pda software caused my email default program to go back to outlook ... which I never use.


Does anyone remember how I go about setting yahoo as my default email so that when I click on an email link in explorer, yahoo comes up? Cause I can't remember.

Thanks!!!

Now then, to stop putting off getting ready for work.

ETA -- taken care of. Thanks LD!

cassiee, headed back to you

cassiee, I finished it and sent it back. Thus goes to show that I can beta three pages in under thirty minutes--probably less if I didn't spend 8 looking for an operative quote and discovering that google refuses to pull up a transcript of the movie. Siiigh, woe is me to not be able to carry my Serenity Visual Companion everywhere. But it's done and it's good:)

Also, me not doing any work today. Or at least, no experiment based work. I've concluded that to do so may be dangerous. While nothing bad has happened today as of yet, I've decided that using expensive equipment may just be tempting fate since the sounds I heard last night seemed to indicate that my bathroom sink is leaking. Anyone know if I need to fear for spewage into my closet next to the bathroom similar to the debacle w/ the blasted tub glaze if I call to get it fixed? *hugs the adults* Also, had to go by uber creepy maintenance guy on the way out and can I just say I still soooo do not like the way he actually turns so he can follow me w/ his eyes. Typically, this is not something I have a problem w/ -- few guys actually notice me enough to drop comments etc and those that do usually are drunk or exceedingly elderly. I know that part of what skeeves me out is his looks, but that's justifiable since I'm convinced part of his teeth problem is meth mouth. *shrugs* I don't know, I just know I've heard it enough to trust my instincts and my instincts have never screamed so loudly about any single individual before. He's never said or done anything that I can report, and I hope it stays that way.

Bad thanksgivings seem to be the theme for those in my lab though. One person had a death in the family immediately before and another had a fight w/ her uber religious dad about living w/ her boyfriend.

Okay, off to do some productive reading where my karma will hopefully not injure anything expensive.

Insightful blog on healthcare and insurance

Patients aren't shoppers

I found myself agreeing with this, despite the fact that as a person in research, I understand that advances take money. But perhaps its better if most of this money doesn't come from patients, but rather comes from taxes. Premier hospitals and centers like the Mayo Clinic could still compete and maintain their status by recruiting the best of the best physicians and surgeons. But the elderly and poor would stop having to choose between food or healthcare.

I don't really know what the solution is as I do know that more government run programs like Canada and UK do have their flaws. But currently, the market-force way isn't serving the customer and patient as it should.

*wails uncontrollably*

My baby, my poor, sweet, beautiful baby!!! What's been done to you!!!!!!!!!! *cries, sobs and tears hair*

Yes, you might gather that my computer *my precious* is having a meltdown. A major frakking meltdown. AS in saying the local profile is corrupted and so starting up w/out any of my preferences, WITHOUT ANY OF MY GODDAMN FILES -- NONE, ZIP, NADA, NOTHING, and no bookmarks.

What did I do?? I know I said I'd take the bad karma,but that's me, not my computer. Put me in the hospital, destroy my experiments, make things go wrong in my apartment, but my technology is off limits!!!!!!!! Especially when I've almost paid off my credit card debt.

So yeah, I don't know what to do. I don't know if a disk defragment will help or make things worse. I don't want to risk trying to reformat it until I can see if I can transfer stuff off of it. I guess I'll go and check the stability of the harddrive...assuming the computer will let me download and install programs or anything in this profile.

God. I even restarted out of hopes that it would help...it didn't. What did I do???????????????????????????????

*wails some more*

so much for a nice relaxing night. eight more days still till my mom's surgery too. *bangs head*

*weeps*

Well, after an hour, the disk is defragged. But nothing is fixed...well other than the speed of the computer.

god, I am so sick of this shit. Something is frakked up with IE too cause it's displaying wierd.

well, if I'm quiet for a while, you know why.

*dries eyes*

Well, I think I've fixed it. Not all my preferences or tweaks are added yet, but I think I've fixed it. *crosses fingers and knocks on wood*

In case anyone else has a similar problem (or I do again), here's where I found out what to do: Recovering a damaged windows xp user profile

For the record, system restores never do anything for me, so I chose the third option of making a new profile and copying over the files I wanted to keep. Probably need to do another defrag now afterwards since I chose not to include torrents, but well...I have what I need plus all my bookmarks.

Now then, I believe I shall go and attempt to delete all the extraneous files that are ANNOYING THE BEJESUS out of me like the frakking viewpoint toolbar manager that I have no clue what it does. And from what I find online, I don't think it's necessary for my system. Methinks I'll go ahead and try to make a system restore point just in case though.

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Boy am I ever glad that I spent the time this morning uploading the supernatural mood icons to photobucket. As it is, I think I lost all the images I'd downloaded for the mood icon set I've been sporadically working on. Le sigh. couldn't find the folder though. Oh, does anyone know how to get the livejournal console to work for the moodtheme_create command? I tried at work, but it just refused to. Maybe it's something to do w/ the server transfer.

My baby looks scarred without all the little tweaks that I'd done to her over the years. Will have to see about how to redo the customizations. Siiigh, and no more You Can't Take the Sky from Me on startup.

Crap, just realized I also lost the soundtracks I'd aquired from various people since I didn't bother to copy over any music. The serenity soundtrack I know I have on my ipod...but crap.

*wails*

crap. I lost all of cassiee's and neroli's firefly soundtracks. *wails* How could I have forgotten them? I remembered to copy over my images, but I totally forgot about the soundtracks.

*holds cassiee's hands down away from computer* No, you will not go and reupload all of them for me. They can wait till after xmas. Work on your homework and studying for tests, missy. *smooch*

I did keep my vids, despite ditching my torrents. Computer is running a LOT more stabler than it had in past months...actually since even the last breakdown. I'm guessing some trojan that I had back then did some permanent damage. Supposedly, I've never had any virus or anything, but I trust norton security system about as far as I can throw it. Still not convinced it's not to blame.

Siigh, missed medium tonight and it looked good from the little bit of end that I saw. Weather will change tomorrow if my earache is anything to judge by. Which is good, cause 69 in late november in the northeast is just wrong. Oklahoma, fine, expect that. Here, NO.

We've had one more addition to the wishlists at uncharted_elves. I figure I'll leave off nagging till nov 30th and then post another request as well as email each. Hopefully that will get results. Oh man, I've also been neglecting devilwoman_ of late. Should probably go and do something there. Course, I can say that I had a good reason to --- couldn't risk distracting cassie's photoshop muse away from her schoolwork...though I still drool over her wash/yosaff creation.

Hmm, not much else that I can think of. I'm a bit tired out from all the adrenaline, so I think I'll hit the sack.

ETA Huh....never mind...it would appear that nothing really got deleted from my deleted profile. Rather, just not where I can access them. So I might not need copies depending if file search will let me copy them to my current profile.

ETA2: Hot damn. I even managed to recover my playlists. Wooooooot!!!!