Going To Hell...Who's Coming With Me?

DSL I HAVE DSL OMG GUYS I HAVE DSL AT HOME AND IT WORKS AND NOW I AM GOING TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE THINGS!

So, anyone who has known me for five minutes knows I name things. I name my pets, I name my vehicles, I name my computers, and hell, I even named my Nintendo DS (Ruby) and my PSP (Fran). I am, in short, completely in agreement with Elisa Maza when she says, "Things need names."

("Does the sky need a name, lass? Or the river?" "The river is called the Hudson." "Then I shall be the Hudson as well." /gargoyles moment)

Which is the background you need to understand my trauma over OMG MY NEW LAPTOP CAME YESTERDAY AND THERE IS NOT A NAME IN THE UNIVERSE AWESOME ENOUGH FOR HER.

(Since she has a red case, I was originally going to call her Charlie, after the A Squad Red Ranger. INSUFFICIENTLY AWESOME. Then I thought, Samus, because, you know, fucking SAMUS ARAN. ALSO INSUFFICIENTLY AWESOME.)

Every other name I've considered has also been discarded on the basis of not badass enough, too crazy, too dead, too pink. (Sorry, Jen. You're still totes my favorite Pink Ranger, though.) And I am running out of fannish inspiration. :(

Maybe she'll just have to be called the Hudson. XD

Nothing like writing Tarantulas to remind you how fun it is writing characters with no ethics and a taste for pain.

In other news, while the new modem still only connects at 28.8 (that's just a function of the shitty phone lines), it takes it a fraction of the time to connect. I guess the old one had been going for a while, and I'd just assumed it was because of the aforementioned shitty phone lines.

While I had Rommi cracked open, though, I really should have replaced her fritzing DVD burner. Because having the DVD drive randomly and repeatedly pop open is annoying as all hell.

I've lost the cable to connect Dulcea to the computer. This means I have no way to charge my iPod; how am I going to survive? D:

...how putting all of the menu items into a single Firefox button makes things more organized?

I do not want Microsoft Office trying to guess what I am doing and "help"; I certainly do not want the "awesome bar" doing so.

And my tabs are just fine below the address bar, thanks.

Or, short version: does anyone have a link to download Firefox 3.6? Because I suspect Firefox 4 and I will not get on well.

Last week when I replaced Rommi's power supply, I discovered that her case fan, instead of being the 3 pin connection I was expecting, was hardwired in. -__- (No, don't ask why I didn't look when I was looking to see what watt power supply I needed.) So back I trotted to Tiger Direct, and ordered a green LED case fan (because damn it, if I have to replace the fan I'm getting one I'll enjoy looking at. Also, it was six bucks.)

Fan arrived Thursday. Dragovian had energy to deal with fan today.

Round 1:
Dragovian: Opens Rommi's case. Dragovian discovers the power supply HAS no open 3 pin connector.

Tiny Green Fan: Has a 3 pin to 4 pin converter in box! \o/

Dragovian: Connects fan. Closes case. Turns on Rommi.

Tiny Green Fan: *sucks air into case*

Dragovian: *facepalm*


Round 2:

Dragovian: Opens Rommi's case. Flips fan around so it'll blow, not suck. (There is really no good way to say that, so I'm not trying.) Closes case. Turns on Rommi.

Tiny Green Fan: *rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*

Dragovian: *facepalm*


Round 3:
Dragovian: Opens Rommi's case. Gently moves ridiculous mass of power cables away from fan. Closes case. Turns on Rommi.

Tiny Green Fan: *blows air* *lights interior of computer and underside of desk in sepulchral green glow*

Dragovian: VICTORY!

Rommi's power supply fan went out last night, and I've no idea if Dillon actually has a regular phone modem or not. :(

I spent this morning trying to get Dante to understand that yes, he does have printers. He used them ALL DAY YESTERDAY (when I was printing out things for today's Bark for Life, which is like the Relay for Life, only you take your dogs with you; we is a sponsor). The print spooler kept being off, even though I kept going into services and restarting it and double-triple-quadruple checking that, yes, the print spooler is set to auto restart. I rebooted. I turned him off completely. I turned the PRINTERS off. At one point, he recognized the printers as printers, but still claimed "function not available" when I'd try to, you know, PRINT.

This, my friends, is what you get when you name a computer after an SUV with a huge stick up his tailpipe. :P

Eventually, I said, "Fuck you," installed the latest Windows updates so they'd stop nagging me, and rebooted.

And his printers came back.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW, YOU GUYS! Rommi never gave me this kind of trouble even back when we were running Win 3.1.

So today's 750 words started mostly about my adventures with apparently drain bamaged computers, and ended with me outlining how to bring the TKR cars into the Indestructible-verse. *facepalm* Because simply having two KITTs clearly can't get me into enough trouble. (Billy wants Domino. Domino is all, "Yeah, no," about it.) THIS IS BECOMING LIKE THE CRACKOVER* ONLY ANGSTIER.

Also, today I discovered that if you go 20 days without distractions, you get an "undistractible" mutant hamster inna hamster ball badge. :D


*For those who weren't around for my last NaNo project, it was a crossover between Knight Rider, Knight Rider 2008, Supernatural, and Bayformers. The Impala is sekritly an Autobot. KARR kidnapped Dean. Mike and Michael bonded over cheap diner coffee while they waited for their supercars to be towed back to base. Hence the name, crackover. There is still a part of me that wants to finish it.