Blah, and Moving

[ontology]

Er. Consider me on semi-hiatus, as I am in the process of Moving Into The Rectory. This is an awkward business involving many boxes and general confusion. We must be out of our current house by Thursday, and the internet at the Rectory will be switched to our name by Wednesday, and I am actually using Dad's computer right now (the main one is disconnected!!), and the keyboard is weird and noisy and THERE IS NO ITUNES. *is emo* 

Will possibly update sporadically. The house is very bare, except for the mess, which means that we are spending the next several days making everything look spotless. I am actually too busy and/or mind-foggy to be angsty right now. I am afraid it will all spring up on me suddenly without warning sometime when it is too late to do anything about it. I do need to take a farewell romp though my woods--blast you, out-of-commission camera. Blast you, I say. 

Must go to dinner. Miss all of you and apologies for lack of comments, as I can't manage to nab very much internet time these days.

Comments

[avendya.livejournal.com]

This is why you need a laptop with wireless. Well, other than they're amazing.

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

*emo tears of woe* Yes, that is exactly it. The excessively rich relative I don't know about yet has to die first and leave me a great sum of money. (Well, Dad has a laptop which I am working up the courage to ask him to let me use, since he almost never does, and while it doesn't have wireless, it has the capabilities to get wireless.)

Because omg, I want to sit on the roof outside of my new window and surf the internet. ^-^

[avendya.livejournal.com]

Well, and you need a wireless network, which your neighbors may have - and you're not going to borrow (much) of their bandwidth, right?

You'll need a wireless PCI card or USB adapter - PCI cards are less finicky, but the USB adapter is easier to figure out (not that a PCI is hard). At that point, you need to buy a router, set a wireless network, hook that up to your DSL/cable/fiber, and you're off!

Er, right. Easier said than done.

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

I set up my wireless myself (PCI) - it's not really all that difficult, provided that you have the patience to hang around for a while and pootle with assorted gadgetry. (Of course, I always do.)


Nicking your neighbours' wireless = fine unless they happen to have their network secured with a key. (We do. My neighbours are not too happy about this, because they were hoping to nick. Nyeh.)

[avendya.livejournal.com]

As did I, but Banui would probably prefer not to descend to the depths of geekery we have. (Have I told you about my physics semester project?)

Neither of our neighbors have theirs secured - neither do we, but ours loses signal by either end of the house, so they can't access it. (We'd get a signal booster, except - well, we can use it. They can't. Is there a problem? Nope.)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think that's basically what Dad's friend who got him the laptop said, except I lost him in all the technical stuff and only remembered something about there being a little slot for the card thingummy somewhere along the side, which he pointed out.

Heh. And I would probably be the only one who could figure out how to set anything up. Dad is completely impaired, and I inherited a lot of that (never ask either of us to fix anything, ever; we will break it much, much worse)--I only get by with electronics because somehow my Inherent Teenagerness makes them like me sometimes. Mum is pretty decent with electronics and things, but she Never Has Time. My brother, who will become a computer nerd, eventually (he even wears socks with his sandals!!), is still too young and inexperienced to teach us how everything works, but by the time he is my age he will probably have to do everything, and I will call him from college to have him troubleshoot my stuff. :p

[trolliepop.livejournal.com]

Ah, moving. Such a wonderful past-time! ;D

We're studying Anglo-Saxon Lit in English. It makes me think of you! Actually, we're starting Middle-Enlish Lit tomorrow, Canterbury!

♥

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. It's my favourite. I should totally do this all the time. (Yeah. When I have enough money to hire TRAINED MOVERS to do everything. Eee. At least moving into a college dorm will only require a small amount of things. Moving into my new bedroom is proving to be relatively easy, although I don't know how I'm ever going to get furniture into a college dorm or boarding house without my father's help. ^-^)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I think I am reading selections from Canterbury Tales after Beowulf. It's either that, or Paradise Lost. *geekish joy*

[vana-tuivana.livejournal.com]

*iconloves* Do you like the place you're moving to? Is it going to be Fun? :-)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Hee. I am working on a (small) bucketload of Pluto-related icons, because I just have problems like that.

And yes, it should be Mostly Fun. We won't have woods for backyard anymore, but I can sit on the roof outside my window, the porch is huge, and it is within bike-riding distance from the university library, and downtown, which, as downtowns go, is not especially impressive, but it's the biggest thing around for a while. And the public library is there. And a very nice candy shop. And an artsy store by the name of the Peacable Kingdom that has such treasures as umbrellas with The Scream on them, seals and sealing wax, prints of paintings, fountain pens, and Beatles posters. ♥

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Iconlove.

Take care, anyway (moving = ugh, take it from the girl who's done 4 or 5 trans-continent moves) and see you when you do get proper Net time again. (Maybe I'll have worked on your fic by then. >.> <.<)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

I did wear black on Friday. No-one outside of the family asked why. I suppose A Teenager In Black is not exactly out of the ordinary. But Mum said something about putting a bit of black paper on the corner of our solar system puzzle...

I am trying to figure out which is worse: moving a great distance or a mere few miles. When one moves a great distance it is very hectic and one leaves all familiarity behind, but at least everything is done with all at once. Moving further into town has us currently in limbo between two houses, belonging to neither. (And my books are all there! *WOEEE* Yes, I have no brain sometimes.)

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

I once moved one whole block. In Barrow, of course, to a house we bought from the rented duplex we had for the first...well, how long was that? Almost a year? Can't remember. We could see our old house from our new house if we looked out the right window. It was...not much fun. We didn't pack much because it was so short a distance, so instead we made fifteen million trips back and forth between the two houses, and all the furniture went right into the kitchen and living room of the new place until there was basically no room to move. At all. We had to clear a path through the furniture so we could get to the bedrooms. (My dad the Paranoid Safety Maven did not like this arrangement at all.)

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

Plagues! At least my new house is about five miles from my old one, which means Moving Truck and All That Jazz (mostly for our immense amount of heavy furniture).

My dad the Paranoid Safety Maven did not like this arrangement at all.

Er. Do we have the same father? ^-^

[lady-moriel.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, for quite some time we kept discovering traits and interests we shared and saying how we were long-lost twins or something (which is still true, it's just there aren't so many new things now, after four years). So possibly. Except my dad doesn't usually wear glasses, and I think he has less hair than your dad does, and at least he knows I'm firmly in the Harry Potter fandom (a year now, more or less--wow, has it been that long?) and doesn't overtly disapprove, although I think he still thinks Harry Potter isn't great.

Although he is the second-most technically inclined in the family. Used to be first, but that was only because I was maybe eight when we got our first computer. He usually ends up with hardware stuff still, but I think I bypassed him in general computer knowledge around...2001 or 2002? Which, coincidentally, is close to when I crashed our computer. >_< Yeah, I was messing around with things I shouldn't've been.

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

*shows off Dessie*

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Doesn't he look like Jesus? :D

[faeriemaiden.livejournal.com]

DESMOND! *pounces*

Um. Sorry. ^-^

Until Season III begins, I am going to labour under my happy delusion that Des got super powers from the burst of electromagnetism and is now hanging out with Ian.

And yes, he rather does. o.O

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Siarl says he has super powers. Jrohest says he's got better than super powers.

Are you going to watch that new series by J.J. Adams--Heroes? It looks really good.