grrr. arrrgh.

[ontology]

Moony-the-iPod, in a fit of pique, has apparently attempted suicide. I am currently trying to resuscitate him despite the usual ways not working at all (it's been frozen on the reset screen. since eleven or so last night.). Lots of desperate Googling tells me that my best hope, aside from sending him away to be "refurbished" (i.e. replaced), is to completely drain the battery and then try again, which is taking a ruddy long time. It's still hanging on enough to project the "connect to power source" screen, although I think it's gotten darker since this morning. Maybe. Also? Today is DOCTOR WHO DAY. BRILLIANT, MOONY, RUDDY BRILLIANT. (And if he does get refurbished he goes away for A WEEK AND A HALF and afterwards I shall have to re-download a great deal of video material and my playcounts will probably be destroyed YES I AM THAT ANAL.)

So I'm depressed in a weird, lucid sort of way today, and I keep thinking it can't be entirely related to iPod stress, because I've had a lot of good bits today, including lovely warm weather, and anyway it's a great deal of heavy gloom to all come out of a bit of machinery malfunction, but I just feel drained, not in a physical way, and sort of hopeless. But it's much less thick and muzzy than it usually is. (Everything else is thick and muzzy. I still can't touch anything.)

edit: Well, bloody plague. Attempt to reset was epically of the fail. (It apparently resets, according to the messages flashing on iTunes, but when it reboots itself, it's back to the Apple screen, and when it's hooked up to the computer the hard drive sort of hiccups.) Looks as though Moony is taking a trip to the hospital in days to come.

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[suangelita.livejournal.com]

*strange mystic chants of 'Angel' can be heard*

It so is not my fault. *nods innocently*

Have fun, Vamp. ^_^ And hurry up with Kiera's letter, already.

And we now have Wash sprinkles. Therefore cupcakes must be made.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

So resetting didn't work...did you try restoring him? Although I guess being actually frozen wouldn't make that very useful. This is sad, because "Partners in Crime" is pretty brilliant.

♥ ♥

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

As my edit announces, restoring failed. Somehow it seems the hard drive froze up and then crashed...oh well, thank goodness for warranty.

Well, I will have to watch it on the computer now, which is admittedly what I did with all of S3, but...still. I like being holed up in my room; it's more conducive to noises of fangirlism. :p (I guess I'm sort of glad that I hadn't yet begun watching Angel S2, too -- sure, I'm going through withdrawal now, but I don't have a new arc nagging at me. )

"Partners in Crime" is pretty brilliant.

Oooh, I'm glad to hear you think that. Naturally still terrifically nervous after the multi-layered DO NOT WANT that was Last of the Time Lords.

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Poor Moony. *pats him*

Yeah, I was nervous about "Partners in Crime" too, what with LotTL being so awful--"Time Crash did a lot to restore my confidence, and I thought VotD was pretty good, but still, I was concerned. So PiC was a relief that way--it's not, say, another "Shakespeare Code" or anything (or even "Smith & Jones," for that matter), but there are adorable fat-babies (no, seriously. They're just cute), and Donna loading up a rather bewildered Ten with suitcases, and multiple references to how awesome Martha was and how terrible the Doctor feels about how he screwed up with her. Plus Ten and Donna both establish right off that neither wants to be romantically interested in the other, which is also a relief, since the last thing I want to see is a return of the unrequited-love storyline (and it also explains the "All I want is a mate!" line in the originally trailer--he means it in the British sense of the word, as in "friend," which I totally didn't think of until I actually saw it in context).

[suangelita.livejournal.com]

Worse things will happen if you continue watching Angel...

No, I don't know how I know that...

muahaha.....

*innocent*

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOSH, YOU PUT AN ANTI-ANGEL CURSE ON ME.

[suangelita.livejournal.com]

Mua. Ha. Ha.

We shall see... ^_^

[trolliepop.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my iPod has frozen up like that a couple of times, and draining and recharging the battery always works. If worse comes to worse, Apple has the world's most fantastic costumer service, which is why I got a second iPod after having so much trouble with my first one instead of a Zune or something like that.

I hope all goes well with your darling Moony!

[mermaidrain.livejournal.com]

My iPod does that from time to time. My brother found this way to make it shut down. I think you hold the middle button and the up direction on the dial at the same time and it will shut down. Then restart it and it should be fine. I know it's the middle button and something else at the same time, but never remember which. I think it is up though. =/

[avendya.livejournal.com]

Seconding the drain and recharge bit. That (nearly) always works for me.

[take-a-sadsong.livejournal.com]

Ah, I had been wondering who Moony was. At first I thought it was an imaginary friend of your's. ^_^ My iTunes is seriously messed up, which is bad because I just bought an iTunes giftcard, and stuff. :/

Oh, so now I'm watching Constantine, and I'm wondering if you've seen it? It's kind of scary, but it's about a man who is an exorcist, and he's trying to figure out why this girl's sister killed herself. The plot sounds dreadful with me explaining it, but it's more of all the effects and the little things the filmakers put in to make it all seem so real and perfect, while still being very much fantasy.

I'm not sure if you're the kind of person who has terrible nightmares from seeing CGI demons. :P It's interesting, and it's much more interesting the second time I've seen it (plus I'm watching it on FX, and during the break they're explaining how they made all the creatures in CGI and OMG IT IS AMAZING. xD).

Anyway, I hope your iPod stops being a disobedient child soon. ^_^ Love you! :)

[last-archangel.livejournal.com]