Date: 2008-03-01 15:07 Subject: Hey you. Yeah, you software maker. Bite my flat black bum! Security: Public Mood: bitchy Tags: getting older, technology, things that suck

I have episodes of something I want to put on disk. When I try, I'm told it's not in the right format. It's AVI.

And it apparently needs me to load extra stuff into a VOB folder.

Cue me going WTH???

So I try to see if I can back up the files as a SuperVideo CD. But that layout doesn't recognize I've got a dvd-rw in the tray and blocks me after one episode transfer.

Looking up AVI, I think, maybe, they want me to convert it to MPEG?

But the info there says it's time consuming. It also goes on and on about technical details of which I don't give a crap and don't want to have to wrap my mind around. I'm a simple little consumer and I want something on DVD. Why make it hard? If I want to spend three hours getting schooled on MPEG, formats, compression rates and the like - I'll take a class or something. With a teacher. Who'll teach. And of whom I can ask questions.

I'd like to maybe watch these eps on my tv one day. That'd be splendid. But I'm beginning to think I shall have to try and figure out how to copy the info over as Data. (Provided that layout recognizes I have a DVD and not a CD blank media in the tray *checks* yes it does. So at least I'll be able to save it)

Seriously, I think I now understand a little bit about why certain devices make people feel old. It doesn't take much to wonder if someone younger than I, would have a)picked this stuff up as part of their everyday life as easily as figuring out the ice maker in the fridge, b) think nothing of apparently needing to know what I think of right now as useless technical details irrelevant to what I want to happen.

And the funny thing here is. Newtech Inforsystems is all 'We're so easy and simple'.

And I'm all 'No you aren't you lying gold bitch'. And how do I know this? I watched the former roommate tape things off the telly onto a dvd with her dvd recording device. And I picked up some of what to do partially by watching her and partially by reading the damn intsructions.

So is the unnecessary 'we'll treat your need NOT as if your computer is an APPLIANCE' due to 'OMG, copying could be something illegal!????

Or is it more of 'We're assuming you don't MIND wasting time trying to do a simple procedure, cause you're just sitting on your ass by a computer - NATCH'

Suddenly Apples iPR for their products makes so much more damn sense.

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Date: 2008-03-01 22:01 Subject: I am curious Security: Public Mood: curious Tags: errands: shopping, health: physical, keeping house

Is it a positive thing or not, when you sit down to do your online grocery shopping, and find yourself with the odd sensation that you've had more variety in the past three weeks of shopping once a week with what little you could carry (from a bigger chain supermarket) than you've had in the last few years without access to supplement from a bigger chain supermarket?

I've been buying easy stuff to carry in my backpack for the last three weeks, once a week, on my way home from therapy via Superfresh. Friday I called my local delivery grocery and ended up talking to a manager (one of the members of the owning family) about how quality has dropped in the last several months; dented cans, cans with mold in them/on them, ripped up containers (cardboard) holding food, no one calling me to give me my total or ask me for final substitutions, a whole host of things being marked 'no longer carried' or 'unavailable' month after month on orders at different days of the week.

The manager claimed some technical problems and recent lectures to their 'shoppers' to shop as if they were buying for themselves with a heavy emphasis on quality. The manager even offered that he personally shop my next order.

So I was going through tonight, thinking about putting in an order for Monday (no way he shouldn't be around for that) and aside from a wonderful .99 per pound boneless, skinless chicken breast - I can't actually muster up enthusiasm for shopping there anymore.

The chain stores are more expensive, there's no doubt about that. From .50 cents to a dollar and more expensive per item. But lately I've noticed that certain things make my stomach uneasy, that I'm finding certain foods too greasy/oily/full of fat, or too salty. I've also found I've enjoyed getting certain things fresher these last three weeks. Not necessarily vegetables (frozen still wins my heart), but meats and eggs and milk. I even found myself eyeing bagged spinach salad and thinking I could finish one of those off in a week and they'd taste better than frozen kale (or the horrible canned kale - ugh, blech ech).

This post isn't so much a 'duh' that I could combine things and get what's easiest and best from each place. So much as wanting to work through and ask input about this kind of dietary change / shopping change.

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Date: 2008-03-01 23:27 Subject: Cause someone just told me they didn't know Security: Public Mood: excited Tags: birthdays

So Head's Up

It is my official birthday month. And as of today, the countdown to said birthday goes 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 3, 2, BIRTHDAY!

Now I happen to treat my birthday month the way some people treat Christmas. I treat myself. I refuse myself almost nothing. I pamper myself. I make myself feel good. There is book buying and good things to eat.

Every birthday month is a celebration of me still being alive.

Anyway, if you want to send me a post card or something, it means I don't fret if it doesn't arrive before or on the date of my birth. Cause the whole month is PARTY TIME. Whoo hoo!

Ok, I'm done now.

(however internet cookies are also greatly aprpeciated.)

ETA - A little song:

Spiderman TV Theme Tune: Birthday month (x2) Nothing like my birthday month. Birthday month (x4) Look out! It is my birthday month! \o/

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