Weekend update
Sep. 25th, 2011 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiSpent most of the weekend napping on the couch - it was time for my annual physical and blood draw + fluy shot + pertussis booster = one very cranky immunie system. I'm kind of glad that insurance won't cover the pneumovax until November, because I think that would have been too much to take. I usually end up feeling all ooky after a flu shot, so with the bonus stuff I was achy and chilled and really really tired.
I did finally get my new TV cabinet set up (with 'assistance' from foster-bunny Portia) and everything re-wired, plus I was able to set up my extra windows machine as a media server for it. I added a small external hard drive (happy birthday to me) and set things up to stream my downloads through my Roku to my TV - and was able to successfully stream last week's Dr. Who to my TV! I still have to fiddle with the filenames to get the directory to read properly, but I'm pretty proud of myself!
See, a week or so ago I went to the gdgt show in Chicago - because it was near my office and promised freebies. I scored a couple of t shirts, some free drinks, a bunch of coupons, and one hilarious story. The AT&T booth was having a raffle for their latest and greatest whatever, and there was a trivia question you had to answer as part of filling out the form. Now, this was at a tech show, packed with self-defined geeks, so everyone was standong around holding their smartphones etc. Except that I noticed that no one seemed to be actually using them to look up the answer. They were mostly standing around asking each other "I don't know man - what did you put?". When I approached the table, the woman said "You don't have to answer now, you can walk around for a while and think about it and then come back." I replied "Or I could just go stand over there for a minute and google it", and she laughed. I don't even HAVE a smartphone - just an iPod Touch - but they even had a free guest wifi network for the show! This amuses me to no end - everyone had the latest and greatest toys, but no one seemed to be actually USING THEM!!!
One of the tables was run by Roku (their facebook page was how I found out about the show) so I chatted with them for a bit. That was where I found out about the beta channel that I used to set up my server. Since I actually talked about the product, they gave me a T-shirt, which has certainly paid off for them. When I was at the doctor's office the front desk buy saw the Roku shirt and was raving about how much he likes his. I wrote down the beta channel info for him, and while I was doing that my doctor overheard us and said that it sounded interesting, so SHE made a copy of the info I'd written down for him. Spreading the gospel of Roku, that's me.
The Stronghold Olde English Faire is coming up this weekend, where we all go back to a time when there were apparently a lot more Es around. We're playing our own sets plus the sets for the court and the country dancers. Going to be busy busy busy! Since I'll be gone for 3 days, I'll be bringing fosterbun Portia back to Red Door on Friday. The volunteers seemd rather surprised when I referred to her as a 'good girl', but after more than 6 years with Pepper the BunnyBitch I suspect that my definition of 'good' may be slightly divergent from other peoples.... I think that it's her combination of being high-strung, short-attention-span, and very very smart. She gets bored very easily, and I suspect that's why she acts out. She gave me one good bite the first weekend, but most of the rest of the time I mostly let her be - sat on the floor where she could investigate me to her heart's content but didn't push her much. After 3 weeks she did her first real binkies, and today she actually came up to me for pettins. I'll be sad to see her go, but she deserves another chance at a real home. They still aren't sure what I'll get afterwards, but I think they are considering giving me another "problem" bun. Winslet's last foster described her as sweet but also incredibly smart, but she was just returned to the shelter for "aggression" - so they are thinking she needs a quiet but saavy home for a bit, with someone who won't be intimidated by her. I told them I could take 2 singles if they just needed peace and space, but if I was going to get a problem child I should make sure I can give her individual attention. So we'll see what happens - I'm content to care for whoever they think most needs me, as I won't be able to committ to a real adoption until at least after the 1st of the year and probably not until spring.
I did finally get my new TV cabinet set up (with 'assistance' from foster-bunny Portia) and everything re-wired, plus I was able to set up my extra windows machine as a media server for it. I added a small external hard drive (happy birthday to me) and set things up to stream my downloads through my Roku to my TV - and was able to successfully stream last week's Dr. Who to my TV! I still have to fiddle with the filenames to get the directory to read properly, but I'm pretty proud of myself!
See, a week or so ago I went to the gdgt show in Chicago - because it was near my office and promised freebies. I scored a couple of t shirts, some free drinks, a bunch of coupons, and one hilarious story. The AT&T booth was having a raffle for their latest and greatest whatever, and there was a trivia question you had to answer as part of filling out the form. Now, this was at a tech show, packed with self-defined geeks, so everyone was standong around holding their smartphones etc. Except that I noticed that no one seemed to be actually using them to look up the answer. They were mostly standing around asking each other "I don't know man - what did you put?". When I approached the table, the woman said "You don't have to answer now, you can walk around for a while and think about it and then come back." I replied "Or I could just go stand over there for a minute and google it", and she laughed. I don't even HAVE a smartphone - just an iPod Touch - but they even had a free guest wifi network for the show! This amuses me to no end - everyone had the latest and greatest toys, but no one seemed to be actually USING THEM!!!
One of the tables was run by Roku (their facebook page was how I found out about the show) so I chatted with them for a bit. That was where I found out about the beta channel that I used to set up my server. Since I actually talked about the product, they gave me a T-shirt, which has certainly paid off for them. When I was at the doctor's office the front desk buy saw the Roku shirt and was raving about how much he likes his. I wrote down the beta channel info for him, and while I was doing that my doctor overheard us and said that it sounded interesting, so SHE made a copy of the info I'd written down for him. Spreading the gospel of Roku, that's me.
The Stronghold Olde English Faire is coming up this weekend, where we all go back to a time when there were apparently a lot more Es around. We're playing our own sets plus the sets for the court and the country dancers. Going to be busy busy busy! Since I'll be gone for 3 days, I'll be bringing fosterbun Portia back to Red Door on Friday. The volunteers seemd rather surprised when I referred to her as a 'good girl', but after more than 6 years with Pepper the BunnyBitch I suspect that my definition of 'good' may be slightly divergent from other peoples.... I think that it's her combination of being high-strung, short-attention-span, and very very smart. She gets bored very easily, and I suspect that's why she acts out. She gave me one good bite the first weekend, but most of the rest of the time I mostly let her be - sat on the floor where she could investigate me to her heart's content but didn't push her much. After 3 weeks she did her first real binkies, and today she actually came up to me for pettins. I'll be sad to see her go, but she deserves another chance at a real home. They still aren't sure what I'll get afterwards, but I think they are considering giving me another "problem" bun. Winslet's last foster described her as sweet but also incredibly smart, but she was just returned to the shelter for "aggression" - so they are thinking she needs a quiet but saavy home for a bit, with someone who won't be intimidated by her. I told them I could take 2 singles if they just needed peace and space, but if I was going to get a problem child I should make sure I can give her individual attention. So we'll see what happens - I'm content to care for whoever they think most needs me, as I won't be able to committ to a real adoption until at least after the 1st of the year and probably not until spring.
