Technology obliterates my holiday cheer

[gwyn]

I've spent a large part of the day putting some of my office back together, and tonight I was setting up the vidding station -- I still capture clips the old fashioned way, because i don't understand ripping at all, and using a DVD player through a camcorder makes sense to me, with my old VCR vidder's brain. Time's runnng out to get this Professionals vid ready for Escapade. But the DVD player won't work now. No matter how many times I've reset the region-free code, it keeps telling me it won't play any of my R2 discs. it's like somewhere in the intervening time of taking things apart for the office installation and putting it all back in, it's lost its ability to play multiregion, and I don't even know about the macrovision hack because it won't play the discs. I have no idea what to do, and I'm up against a deadline. That was my big plan tonight -- capture clips, watch Christmas movies, capture some more clips, etc.

So instead I turned back to organizing the new office. I hate hate hate filing things, and avoid it like the plague, but I love office supplies, so I promised myself that I would give myself all purple filing stuff as my impetus to make better, more organized files (mostly because, as I learned when my sister died, having all this stuff clearly labeled and up to date for others after you're gone is the greatest gift you can give them during a really difficult time). Today I bought purple manilla folders and purple hanging folders, and since I couldn't vid, I decided to put all the newly cleaned out files in and label them with my new label maker. I love, love, love making labels! I've only had the chance to make five so far with the labeler I got for my birthday, and I printed my first one out, only it said "tape jam" and then... it's totally not working. I've even replaced the tape cartridge and it won't do anything but give me the tape jam message. Five labels, and it's already broken, and I don't have the receipt anymore.

Christmas cheer is officially gone now. I'm just down and feeling like I can't get anything done. Maybe this is the universe's cruel way of making me write, even though that brief burst of fan writing was more of an anomaly than anything else. Sigh. I need some good booze. And i still haven't got my dad his present because I can't find the only thing he actually wants! Arg. I feel awkward and like a very bad only daughter.

Comments

[fishsanwitt]

Sometimes technology sucks.

::pets you::

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

This is no way to spend a Christmas Eve! I wish I could wave a wand and fix all that stuff. Maybe it just needs to sit in the corner and think about what it's done. Oddly, occasionally it seems like that's how things start working again.

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

That does seem to work, doesn't it? I don't know how many times I've told an inanimate object to "just sit there and think about what you've done!" Sometimes it even works on tangled thread. *g*

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, tangled thread is the worst. So inclined for naughtiness.

[leela-cat.livejournal.com]

I absolutely hate it when technology forgets who is supposed to be the master or mistress.

::hugs::

[dine.livejournal.com]

speak sharply to the technology, and remind it who's boss!

sorry you ended up unable to work on projects you'd planned; here's hoping things shape up and fly right, and/or you can resolve the problems, so the next attempt will succeed.

*hugs*

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry you're feeling so down about your high-tech stuff acting like a petulant 5-year old. A while back I was using the iBook, online, & it locked up (which it does occasionally). I rebooted & when I tried to sign back on, it kept telling me it couldn't find its modem. It's internal modem. I sat there, trying to sign on, asking it how in the hell it could *lose* it's internal modem in a matter of seconds! It would be like waking up one morning & announcing, "I can't find my pancreas. It must have disappeared while I was sleeping." (The Mac guy told me it was burned out, probably from an electrical storm, only--I was using it! So, I don't know. I now use an external modem.) They're crazy, these machines.

I hope your Christmas is going better.