Me: I should learn to be responsible with my money. Also me: I should start a dolls' house collection.
I've won another Amazon Gift Card from the same forum as before. I won one back in January, and I've won again this June. I may start to stockpile them for something.
Sold off a bunch of new things today! I'm close to the first £100 and while it won't get me anywhere on it's own, it's a good start... and I've got less shit to throw away when I move! I also found out that my almost 10 year old camera goes for around £70+ still! And while on the topic of money - I'll get my first pay check in less than two weeks! ...and on the topic of happiness - next week I only work three and a half day (paid for four), it's Midsummer and I'm going to spend it with my parents pre-celebrating my birthday. The week after Lost gets here... and the weekend after that is my actual birthday! So much to look forward to!
It's sunny and hot in Ireland! 2 weeks into June, but still. At least it's here...for now. I may get a picture of it for historical documentary records. ETA: Pic in Tavern's.
Well, it seems my worrying was in vain. 4 likes so far for my public announcement, and no interrogations or deaths threats as yet.
I've always wanted Marilyn Manson to do the reverse: Take nice innocent songs and add his own twist to them. Oh Mickey (You're So Fine) The Locomotion Crazy for You My Boyfriend's Back (and There's Gonna Be Trouble)
I know he did "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", which threw me right off when my roommate started playing it.
Not Marilyn Manson, but Me First and the Gimmee Gimmee's some punkish covers from the early 2000's to recently. Some of which I actually like better than the originals. Spoiler: For size
So yesterday I resolved to do everything I wanted to do tonight and get to bed at a reasonable time. It's half past six and I'm not in bed, but I have done everything I wanted to, so I'm halfway there. I got distracted reading fanfiction but now that story's finished, my distraction's gone. I'm learning. I finally feel like I'm making progress.
I've been saying for days that I will watch a dvd and/or play sims. I still haven't gotten around to either of them.
Just downloaded the current developer beta for iPad OS. Despite some performance hiccups and crashes, it’s immediately apparent how much easier it’ll make the tablet to use. Everything from homescreen widgets and having multiple windows of the same app to selecting WiFi networks without needing to open Settings every time. And, perhaps most importantly, mouse support. Files and Safari are also massively improved from iOS 12. Feels like a somewhat buggy laptop now instead of a coked-up iPhone, and it should run a lot better with the public beta next month.
I completely forgot that these were features Apple didn't have. Android's had some of them so long I thought they were kind of standard.
Spending the day chatting with My Amazing Man, with occasional wedding talk. This makes me immensely happy. I love you Travis.
Yeah, it’s always been pretty embarrassing. Especially with the newest high-end iPads. Running iOS 12, you have a situation where you can get a laptop-sized screen, a powerful processor for a tablet, and all kinds of colorful accessories from styluses to controllers and USB hubs, but you can’t plug in a basic garden-variety mouse without jailbreaking. Similarly, you can technically connect to flash drives, but you can’t use them for normal file transfer, outside of some specific iOS-targeted products with accompanying apps. On the bright side, when you use an iPad as a work device, you quickly become proficient with keyboard shortcuts. It’s the only way to navigate the system with reasonable speed. Or was, rather. Apple got a ton of complaints when they started trying to market them as laptop replacements, so looks like they finally bit the bullet and started adding in those features. Which is good, because they’re remarkably versatile devices.
I learned to type in Word 5.0 - 5.5 on pre-mouse era computers (or at least before they mad many of them in schools). Keyboard shortcuts were pretty much our only option for some things.
I remember keyboard shortcuts, and how important it was to remove any custom ones tied to a specific project once a project was completed, lest you insert something completely irrelevant in the new one.
I cut my teeth in wordprocessors on WordStar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar for those who haven't had the misfortune of using it). I then moved onto the graphical mousable wordprocessors, like WordPerfect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPerfect) and M$-Word that didn't strictly need shortcuts. I thought I'd left the shortcut editors behind but then I needed to use ssh, so we're back to using shortcuts in joe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor), which is a WordStar clone. There's no mouse clicks so everything is a keyboard shortcut. It's amazing how life goes full circle. PS I was going to learn Emacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs but never really got the hang of it, which is why I chose joe instead.