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[the_rck]

I did a lot of cat waxing yesterday and accomplished none of the things I'd hoped to. I'm not even sure what I actually did do.

I'm getting frustrated with Google hangouts. It won't let me initiate a chat with anybody any more, at least not in Safari. I haven't tried in Firefox because the account I use on Firefox has a habit of spontaneously and permanently blocking people I want to talk to and telling me that I can't undo it unless I sign up for Google+ on that account which I am not going to do because that's my pseudonymous account for fanfic activity. Attaching my real name to it would defeat the purpose. At any rate, the Google hangouts problem may come from the fact that the version of Safari I use is no longer supported by Google.

Unfortunately, I can't update Safari until Scott figures out a way to update my system software, and nothing he's managed to think of will work for that short of buying the system again (we can't find the CDs Scott used to update his laptop). I'm still using Lion. Apparently, we could update me to Yosemite for free, but Yosemite won't run on my laptop because my laptop's too old. It's all very frustrating.

Scott's FATE game met last night. We resolved a couple of combat situations that we'd been in the middle of last time we met (four weeks ago?). Our group really could use a couple of NPCs-- The door to our base has been blown off, and right now, one of the player characters is stuck guarding it all the time which makes it hard for that character to interact with anybody else or to do anything interesting.

I slept poorly last night. I think the problem is that I ate too many snacks at the game session. The particular problem seems to have been the maple bacon potato chips. I didn't have many, but apparently I shouldn't have had any. It's a pity because there are rarely potato chips at the game that I can safely eat (black pepper chips are very popular and do nasty, nasty things to me). Scott has taken to buying gluten free cookies for the game sessions because one of the players is gluten free. They're really extremely good.

I'm puzzled. I'm feeling overheated, but the thermostat says it's only 75F in here. That probably means it's actually 77F in the living room, and that's really not hot. I've got the overhead fan running, but it doesn't seem to be helping.

I'm trying to decide if I want to do my morning routine of reading various websites first or if I'm going to do the metanews post first. Posting will take maybe half an hour. Reading my usual websites will probably take two. It might make sense to post first, just to get it done. I don't know.

Comments

[heavenscalyx]

I find that if I'm feeling overheated, I'm either getting a migraine or (nowadays) having a hot flash. The stupid hot flashes come in all shapes and sizes and I end up puzzling at it until I finally go OH. Right.

It really does sound like y'all need at least one NPC who can guard the door/van/horses/spaceship. Especially if you don't have a player who regularly conks out at the table.

[the_rck]

Possibly it was some sort of hot flash, then. I'm feeling much better, temperature wise, now.

We do have one player who leaves the game half an hour before the end of each session. He's got a one year old at home, so his schedule is more constrained than the rest of us who either have no kids or have kids many years older. This player missed all game sessions for the first several months after they adopted their daughter, so it's nice to have him back at all.

Scott is the GM, so I'll mention to him the idea that we need a generic do-the-tedious-things npc. He's planning to add in an npc who has some computer expertise because our group is seriously lacking in that department, but I think that particular npc would be too useful (and too developed) to leave back at base to answer the phones.

[untonuggan]

I love love love the typo/autocorrect of "cat waxing" because it gave me many interesting mental pictures. Many involving lots of blood and scratches, tbh. Um, I am weird.

I am frustrated that I cannot see someone's status on google hangouts on my app-based things. I want to know if I'm bugging someone, or if I should expect a reply, dammit.

[the_rck]

Not seeing someone's status would be frustrating.

Right now, I get a green dot if someone's actively online, but I don't get a yellow dot for inactive but online. One of my friends loves to chat but is frequently on yellow dot status, even when actively chatting, because she's on her phone, and I can no longer tell whether she's there or not. Not that I can initiate a chat with her even if she is actively present.

I really, really want that OS update.

[ramenkuri.livejournal.com]

I guess Chrome won't run on lion?

Can you sign into your other account on Firefox? I guess that gets confusing, but often I'm signed into multiple google accounts at once on a particular browser.

[the_rck]

I haven't tried Chrome. I've been reluctant to add yet another browser to my overburdened system. I don't have very much storage space left on my hard drive, either, so a new program is iffy that way, too. I can't delete Safari to make room for Chrome because my OS won't allow that. I can't delete any of the programs that came with the OS (which is why I'm stuck with a chess program I have never and will never use).

I use Firefox for my fannish email which I don't want in any way connected to my wallet name, and I use Safari for my wallet name account. I don't want to use the same browser for the two accounts because I very much do not want Google to connect them to each other. I don't mind my fannish email being connected to the metanews Gmail account, so I do that on Firefox, too. I wasn't aware that it was even possible to be logged into more than one Gmail account per browser at a time.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Jan was the only person in our family who had Apple computers, and he stopped because they tended to get into exactly that type of situation -- where you *have* to upgrade in order to keep running something, but you can only upgrade that by paying to upgrade the operating system, and then that version of the operating system won't run on your computer anyway. Maddening!

[the_rck]

Yeah, it is. Of course, my laptop is more than five years old, so the software passing it by isn't that surprising. It's just that, as long as it's working adequately, we really can't afford to replace it, not with all the house expenses of the last couple of years and our need to save up for a new car.