The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
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captainsblogWell, heck. Mayz well just go in order:Good.
* We figured out this past weekend's mystery word! Well, sorta. It was either "invincible" or "invulnerable," depending on when I asked the missus about it.
* Although I did not advertise prizes, I gave one anyway, to one of the folks who suggested the latter and asked for a Broken download. I ordered one for her, and she promptly made a donation of the purchase price to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, which just had its state budget cut by tens of millions last week. Win win win.
* In addition to that gesture, I continued my self-appointed leadership of the Broken street team in other ways. In Friending the publisher on Facebook, I met the actual factual author, who'd had her blog here, just moved it to Wordpress, and said she would love for a Paid LJer to syndicate her new feed. Done. World, meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
susanjbigelow; even better, click the broadcasty looking thing where your LJ head is, then click "add feed," and you'll get her brilliance on a near-daily basis:)
Bad.
* Eleanor had the collywobbles last night, and seemingly half the people I ran into today, between office, outside appointments and gym, were all experiencing similar symptoms in their/coworkers'/immediate family's lives.
* Apparently unable to aim closely enough to bury us under any given snowstorm, God seems determined to just depress us to death with His 2011 version of Chinese Frozen Water Torture. Every day, it seems, it snows, and snows, and snows just a lit-tle more.
* Somewhere between middle-of-night and mid-morning, I cricked my neck real good and it still hurts like a sonuva. Working out tonight didn't make it any worse, but neither did it improve things.
Saving the ugly for last.
* This computer is still Not At All Well. I came home from early-afternoon errands, and discovered it had rebooted its own self. Ever since, all seems okay, except when I try to launch Outlook to get into my office email. That has resulted, each and every time, in major hangs and required reboots; at least two full chkdsk popups; an inability to copy or save the Outlook backup file to this or any other disk; and a Malwarebytes run just now saying I had two nasties in my registry which may, or may not, be connected to the problem. Plus, this beast is still running substantially hotter than it was before Le Crash et Reinstall, which also may (or may not) have anything to do with it. At worst in terms of data, I've lost a couple of weeks of emails and calendar appointments, many of which can be reconstructed. Still, it just pisses me off that I'm still tilting at the same windmills and not getting any royalty checks from the people generating power off of them:P
Here's where my mother used to say, "Tomorrow is another day."
* We figured out this past weekend's mystery word! Well, sorta. It was either "invincible" or "invulnerable," depending on when I asked the missus about it.
* Although I did not advertise prizes, I gave one anyway, to one of the folks who suggested the latter and asked for a Broken download. I ordered one for her, and she promptly made a donation of the purchase price to Roswell Park Cancer Institute, which just had its state budget cut by tens of millions last week. Win win win.
* In addition to that gesture, I continued my self-appointed leadership of the Broken street team in other ways. In Friending the publisher on Facebook, I met the actual factual author, who'd had her blog here, just moved it to Wordpress, and said she would love for a Paid LJer to syndicate her new feed. Done. World, meet
susanjbigelow; even better, click the broadcasty looking thing where your LJ head is, then click "add feed," and you'll get her brilliance on a near-daily basis:)Bad.
* Eleanor had the collywobbles last night, and seemingly half the people I ran into today, between office, outside appointments and gym, were all experiencing similar symptoms in their/coworkers'/immediate family's lives.
* Apparently unable to aim closely enough to bury us under any given snowstorm, God seems determined to just depress us to death with His 2011 version of Chinese Frozen Water Torture. Every day, it seems, it snows, and snows, and snows just a lit-tle more.
* Somewhere between middle-of-night and mid-morning, I cricked my neck real good and it still hurts like a sonuva. Working out tonight didn't make it any worse, but neither did it improve things.
Saving the ugly for last.
* This computer is still Not At All Well. I came home from early-afternoon errands, and discovered it had rebooted its own self. Ever since, all seems okay, except when I try to launch Outlook to get into my office email. That has resulted, each and every time, in major hangs and required reboots; at least two full chkdsk popups; an inability to copy or save the Outlook backup file to this or any other disk; and a Malwarebytes run just now saying I had two nasties in my registry which may, or may not, be connected to the problem. Plus, this beast is still running substantially hotter than it was before Le Crash et Reinstall, which also may (or may not) have anything to do with it. At worst in terms of data, I've lost a couple of weeks of emails and calendar appointments, many of which can be reconstructed. Still, it just pisses me off that I'm still tilting at the same windmills and not getting any royalty checks from the people generating power off of them:P
Here's where my mother used to say, "Tomorrow is another day."
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Date: 2011-02-08 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-08 03:01 pm (UTC)(Roswell Park treats my daddy, and does a phenomenal job of it)
"Collywobbles" is a wonderful word, although I'm sorry that Eleanor had them!
Can you consider loading Thunderbird instead of Outlook? You may have fewer crashy problems.
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Date: 2011-02-08 03:07 pm (UTC)I've tried everything to recover this stinking .pst file from 24 hours ago, which has everything I did between the previous crash and yesterday (which, fortunately, isn't that much). It resists copying, Inbox Repair Tooling, even old-school efforts through the
DOS shellcommand prompt. At this rate, I'm considering changing my name to Captainsblog of Borg and seeing if I can just assimilate it all.no subject
Date: 2011-02-08 03:10 pm (UTC)I think you can even import all the stuff from your Outlook nice and clean, although if it's crashing your computer, that might not be a good idea to do automatically.
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Date: 2011-02-09 02:22 am (UTC)No calendar. Thunderbird's just mail. Also, it doesn't sync with the iPhone (not that my ancient Outlook ever has).
Plus, there's the potential stigma of using an email client named for a bum wine.
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Date: 2011-02-09 01:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-09 01:46 pm (UTC)"What's the word? Thunderbird!"
"What's the price? Sixty twice!"
Perhaps there's a
Orrrrrrr, maybe not;) (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091023122709AAdJ5zk)
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Date: 2011-02-09 01:58 pm (UTC)