Why yes, it has been a few days since I last posted.
And yes, I am even more behind now. I will catch up eventually.
The main problem I'm having with posting every day is I have to do it at work in spare time. Usually I can write a little here, a little there, and I've got a post in about an hour or two, depending on how busy things are, how motivated I am to write the post, that sort of thing.
But when I can't write it at work, that's where I hit a brick wall lately. Because while Brett has a very lovely desktop that works awesomely, he's usually on it from the time we get home to most of the night. It's his, so I feel bad asking him to get off, you know? He also has a laptop, but the hinges are wonky, and it feels unsafe in my more-than-clumsy hands. I don't like typing on an iPad screen (also his), because it's not the same.
And my phone has the Blogger app, but typing on my phone is also less than ideal.
If you haven't noticed, I haven't mentioned my own netbook computer. That's because lately...well, it's been like this:
You might think I'm being over-dramatic about it, but I'm not really. Basically, the sucker wouldn't do anything. At all. I would turn it on, and try to open Firefox, or iTunes...and get no response. The little loading circles might come up, but after that? Nada. And it would decide that it needed to restart, and it would restart, and I'm like, wtf, mate?
It's been pretty slow all around for a while now, but I just can't afford to get a new one. I mean, I probably could get something small, and fairly low on memory, but if I'm going to get a new computer, I want to get one that I can do other stuff on. Because lately, I've also been playing Steam.
For those not in the know, Steam is an online video gaming platform. Though obviously this little thing can't handle that overload of processes, so I've been gaming on Brett's desktop. And I hate asking him to get off so I can play. Part of my nature--I don't like making people do things they don't have to do just for my sake.
So if I were going to get a computer, it would be powerful enough to game on. And that costs a fair chunk of change.
Some of you may now be wondering, Well, Samantha, what are you typing on at this moment? By a rare stroke of luck, I managed to get my computer running again enough to actually do stuff. I really am not sure how, but I did. Deleted a few unused programs, cleared some cached memory, ended a few processes, and it started to quicken. So, for now, this will do what I need it to. While it still goes to "Not Responding" every few minutes, it fixes itself quickly, so I wait it out.
And yes, I am even more behind now. I will catch up eventually.
The main problem I'm having with posting every day is I have to do it at work in spare time. Usually I can write a little here, a little there, and I've got a post in about an hour or two, depending on how busy things are, how motivated I am to write the post, that sort of thing.
But when I can't write it at work, that's where I hit a brick wall lately. Because while Brett has a very lovely desktop that works awesomely, he's usually on it from the time we get home to most of the night. It's his, so I feel bad asking him to get off, you know? He also has a laptop, but the hinges are wonky, and it feels unsafe in my more-than-clumsy hands. I don't like typing on an iPad screen (also his), because it's not the same.
And my phone has the Blogger app, but typing on my phone is also less than ideal.
If you haven't noticed, I haven't mentioned my own netbook computer. That's because lately...well, it's been like this:
You might think I'm being over-dramatic about it, but I'm not really. Basically, the sucker wouldn't do anything. At all. I would turn it on, and try to open Firefox, or iTunes...and get no response. The little loading circles might come up, but after that? Nada. And it would decide that it needed to restart, and it would restart, and I'm like, wtf, mate?
It's been pretty slow all around for a while now, but I just can't afford to get a new one. I mean, I probably could get something small, and fairly low on memory, but if I'm going to get a new computer, I want to get one that I can do other stuff on. Because lately, I've also been playing Steam.
For those not in the know, Steam is an online video gaming platform. Though obviously this little thing can't handle that overload of processes, so I've been gaming on Brett's desktop. And I hate asking him to get off so I can play. Part of my nature--I don't like making people do things they don't have to do just for my sake.
So if I were going to get a computer, it would be powerful enough to game on. And that costs a fair chunk of change.
Some of you may now be wondering, Well, Samantha, what are you typing on at this moment? By a rare stroke of luck, I managed to get my computer running again enough to actually do stuff. I really am not sure how, but I did. Deleted a few unused programs, cleared some cached memory, ended a few processes, and it started to quicken. So, for now, this will do what I need it to. While it still goes to "Not Responding" every few minutes, it fixes itself quickly, so I wait it out.