Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer. Show all posts

15.8.10

Generation Why.

…so, this is how I spend my time on rainy Sunday afternoons when I am actively ignoring the dishes & Le Punk is enthralled with ‘Mister Maker’ (…seriously, she loves that show!).

I find online generators for every occasion. Like a boy scout – I am always prepared, for example;

If I ever find myself in a band, hitting that triangle with wild abandon & rocking the hell out, the band’s name will be *coughs* Orgasm Monarch, courtesy of bandnamemaker.

If I ever have to enter witness protection, & if we’re serious, it could happen at any time, I can get a whole new identity from here. (For security purposes, I cannot tell you that my new name would be Imogen McDowell, I would reside in Hillside, VIC, and my new, glorious occupation would be Pesticide Sprayer. Oops.)

Or, (…this is obviously the most useful, and my favourite of all) if I ever find myself in a conversation with the ghosts of past surrealists like Picasso or Max Ernst, I can compliment them with the help of The Surrealist Compliment Generator. Of course you’ll be wanting an example;

“May bathtubs overflow upon your offspring.”

or

“You do dine so emergently that sanguine trepidation overcomes the house-staff.”

or, because it’s kind of addictive & rather amusing…

“Your nasal linings will last as long as the skin of rocks, thrust enigmatically upon a distant shoreline of mating beetles.”

Ernst: “Why thank you!”

13.11.09

Unlucky For Some.

But not for me folks, oh no, so far today, Friday the dreaded 13th, has been decidedly pleasant. It was yesterday, known from now on as "Hideous Thursday" that was the stinker.



Picture this; early morning, a nice morning, Thursday the 12th of November. I brew myself a nice cup of coffee & toddle over to the computer, camera in hand, all ready to upload my stunningly brilliant "My Creative Space" & join in yet again with meme goodness. I press the power button. Everything proceeds as normal until.... it doesn't.



Computer says "No".



In fact, computer says "Hell No" & blankly refuses to continue living in this cruel world. It seems the death of the mouse the other day was more than a mild inconvenience, it was an ominous sign of impending doom. My heart beats quicker, sweat beads on my brow; WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?!


I call The Boy at work (I wish I were kidding folks); "THE COMPUTER IS DEAD!" he is suitably distressed. I spend hours "biding my time" until The Boy returns home & we can set off to get a new, shiny computer.



Horrible, horrible, horrible time shopping for new computer, I shan't bore you with the details except to say heat crazed toddler + shiny new expensive technological items do not mix.



Take detour on the way home to camping ground of "next week". Heat crazed toddler screams her protest for entire length of pointless detour. I scream my protest, loudly, in my head, & wonder why we can't just see the damn camping area when we, you know, go camping...?!



Get shiny new computer home & spend ridiculous amounts of time doing things to it so that it may function like old computer, only faster.




Yuck.


BUT.




Today, Friday, the lovely 13th of November, all is well with the world. I have a shiny new computer &, like child birth, the painful memories of how it got here are quickly receding.





The sun is shining in a nice, friendly way, not a malicious way, as it has been.



We picnicked in the park, wee Punk & I.







The Op shop gods smiled upon me & offered up some lovely linen & another round table cloth for skirt making purposes.






And aprons.





Lots of aprons.





Hope your Black Friday has been just as lovely!

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