Troper Updates II, Part II

Congrats, Keybreak.

A very merry unbirthday to you!

Now, all a yous gimme presents.

I'm proud of you for not buying that car. Now find a much more affordable but equally driveable used car and buy that instead, and brag to your family about how responsible you are!

Right...through hard work and good luck will I be able to find a much cheaper but still reliable car with enough leg room and low mileage that I won't have to buy another one for...what, another ten years? Is that how it's supposed to go with cars?

When I was in high school I wondered if I'd even live to 25. Now that I'm 24 it looks like I probably will...

I just didn't have a very detailed plan for if I ever lived this long.

A car'll last longer than 10 years if you take good care of it, but yeah.

The thing to keep in mind with used cars is that they'll cost more in maintenance, so I wouldn't go and blow all your savings just because you buy a cheaper car that didn't empty your savings. You sound smart enough to not need that advice though.

People always tell me I'm smart, but I always tell them that I'm not half as smart as I wish I was. Or that I should be.

The car I have now is 15 years old. It could probably last another one...maybe two...

I'm just no good at preparing for next stages in my life. I wanted this new job and didn't realize that it would take way more of my time than I was counting on.

So, big life goals are still New Car, New Job, and New Home.

...but for my birthday, I just want to live for today.

My philosophy (well, one of many) is that nobody knows as much as they think they do, but everybody has more potential than they give themselves credit for.

Nobody lives their life to the fullest—not really, because if we did, we'd all have heart attacks and die. So clearly, if you are alive and healthy, then you could handle more than you're handling.

That's not meant to imply that your problems are not significant or that your struggles are not difficult—it's meant to imply that you are capable of surmounting them and doing so much more.

Happy birthday, Keybreak, and may you have countless more!

Your comment about intelligence reminds me of something I sometimes think to myself when I think I'm getting too haughty about my intelligence. To quote Carry On My Wayward Son, "And if I claim to be a wise man, well,/It surely means that I don't know".

Still, chin up lad!

Meanwhile, I have had I Don't Want To Know stuck in my head all day...

I don't want to know the reasons why love keeps

Right on walking down on the line.

I don't want to stand between you and love, Honey,

I just want you to feel fine.

Spent Yesterday at a Con, saw a lot of cosplay I enjoyed, met Jason David Frank, and bumped into Dean Cain. Watched the William Shatner Q.A. and got to see James Marston talk about the bad cop episode of Buffy.

T'was fun. Recorded video and took pictures. Maybe I'll post them.

Why is it that during the weekend, I forget what I was supposed to be doing during the week?

Keybreak - go cheap so you can keep some to the side in case shit happens.

This especially applies because you're in the US, and you never know what medical issue may crop up.

I'm always cheap.

Except apparently in browser tab usage.

Out of nowhere, Dad comes into my room to tell me that when I have "twenty-seven" tabs open in my browser, it chews up bandwidth for the whole house and that I'm a "bandwidth hog".

I only have nine tabs up right now.

But I've had up a lot of tabs for years and he never said anything. Now he just wants me to stop being a "hog" and just stop what I've always done?

Is 20 okay? Or 15?

How about I cap it off at only twenty-six, Dad? >;/

Just having them open doesn't do anything to network bandwidth.

If you tried to load them all at once, or if they're streaming content, then that would be a problem. But a fully loaded tab typically isn't bothering the network at all.

I'm really glad I have at least one parent who's forgotten more about computers than I'll ever know.

edited 4th Oct '15 4:39:34 PM by TParadox

Well, my laptop is kinda busted.

"I'm just no good at preparing for next stages in my life."

Nobody is. We just make it up as we go along, pretend it was all part of the plan whenever things go well and blame unforeseeable circumstances when they don't. :P

How to adult, in a nutshell.

If you do manage to plan ahead, you've either struggled for so long and found a way around it, or you are The Chessmaster and know how to plan yourself and others.

There's nothing more to say.

Happy birthday 2 days late, Keybreak!

Okay, for whatever reason, I couldn't sleep last night. The apparent result was having vivid dreams in the morning, as often tends to happen.

So, in the dream, I was at my friend's college. Now, my friend goes to an all-female college, and I'm in my thirties, while she's in her twenties. That said, I was at her college - despite having never seen what it looked like in real life so I wouldn't know. And I was in an assembly of some sort, with classmates both male and female despite it being a women's college.

And some of the male classmates were being disruptive by playing with remote control cars. Later, we had to eat lunch, and while I'd brought my own lunch, there were, as a possibility, chicken nuggets, which for some reason were dipped in milk. Due to my multiple food intolerances, that was a no-no (I can't have milk, or gluten - and the breading of chicken nuggets is made of wheat), so I pointed that out to a few (male) students.

Also, at some point, the usual "I'm failing college because I haven't been attending any of my classes in two subjects" plot showed up. I've had that particular dream/subdream many times.

What triggered this imagery? I can only guess that the remote control cars came from the fact that I'd been playing Rocket League earlier that day. I've had multiple dreams involving my food intolerances (calling them that since they're not medically classified as "allergies" despite being more or less that in terms of severity of being triggered, even if symptoms are different). However, most such dreams were of the "I ate something, then later realized what I ate" variety. Being in my friend's oddly man-filled all-women college, that I don't get.

Aagh, should I put in these Xmen comics by title or author?

They have different authors, but they're all in the same series, so I think that I should put them together...

But some other series have different authors, like Infinity Ring, Spirit Animals, and The 39 Clues, so kids have to look all over the place for those.

But the graphic novel section is smaller so you wouldn't have to look around so much either...

Title is usually best - a multi-author medium usually needs to be sorted by title simply to keep it more consistent.

Probably...Puella Magi Madoka Magica goes by GN/PUE.

edited 5th Oct '15 10:09:30 AM by Keybreak

I got around to putting new video card in. Sure, it can run Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor in 90 fps at very high details ("Nvidia Optimized Settings"), but it sounds like a goddamn tractor even when running the desktop.

But hey, I can use Shadowplay now. Shadowplay, if someone doesn't know, allows you to dump the last twenty minutes of your gameplay footage to a video file - a "did you fucking see that?!" mode.

EDIT: turns out that the exhaust fan caught one of the motherboard power cables. With the cable out of the way, computer doesn't sound like a tractor any more.

edited 5th Oct '15 12:50:50 PM by NotSoBadassLongcoat

After spending a couple of weeks looking for corporal punishment and death penalty in ancient Irish law, I finally found a rule of "The life of ever law-breaker is fully forfeited" way towards the end of The Book of Aicill!

You would have thought that would be more prominent of a rule...

edited 6th Oct '15 7:02:06 AM by Lemurian