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2010 in review
Better late than never, but as I bitched previously there's no relaxing time off for me on the holidays. Here's my 2010 year in review:
This is the year I lost 65 pounds after discovering I had gallstones.
This is the year I broke down and got health insurance (see above).
This is the year I rode a bike and changed my life.
This is the year I made a new penpal friend in Finland.
This is the year I got a computer with Windows 7, a choice I've regretted at least once a week since (including this past month, where every fifth time I turn the computer off Windows crashes and refuses to restart).
This is the year Tery made enormous strides in her struggle with alcoholism, ran her first triathlon and found God.
To cancel out her goodness, this is the year I officially became a smut peddlar and wrote my first semi-novel length Snarry (which has received rave reviews, BTW).
In still more evil deeds, this is the year I discovered the joy of torrent downloading, only to be sent a cease-and-desist letter from my ISP a few short months later. Just recently I've discovered the joy of "YouTube ripping," which![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kavieshana tells me is so 2006 it never occurred to her to suggest it as an alternative.
Related, this is the year I discovered two great new bands, Imperative Reaction and mind.in.a.box. Watch this video to hear my favorite song by them; it starts kind of slow, then builds to one kick-ass verse, then ends far too soon (don't pay any attention to the video itself, it seems to have nothing to do with the song at all):
This is the year (maybe the last) I visited my family and realized they could possibly have some deep-seated emotional problems; like, should probably be in therapy caliber of problems.
This is the year Tery broke her 4-year winning streak of the neighborhood Christmas lights competition -- which would be easier to accept if the winners didn't only turn their lights on for the judging, and never again afterwards.
This is the year I learned that good things come to those who wait, that DVDs drop in price steadily if you're patient enough, and that not seeing movies in the theater whenever the mood strikes me isn't going to kill me.
Resolutions for 2011: Save, save, save (money); and lose, lose, lose (more weight. Hopefully. I seem to have plateaued for the past few weeks).
First picture of me taken in 2011:
And oh hell, have a couple of adorable ferrets in lurve, good way to start the year:
This is the year I lost 65 pounds after discovering I had gallstones.
This is the year I broke down and got health insurance (see above).
This is the year I rode a bike and changed my life.
This is the year I made a new penpal friend in Finland.
This is the year I got a computer with Windows 7, a choice I've regretted at least once a week since (including this past month, where every fifth time I turn the computer off Windows crashes and refuses to restart).
This is the year Tery made enormous strides in her struggle with alcoholism, ran her first triathlon and found God.
To cancel out her goodness, this is the year I officially became a smut peddlar and wrote my first semi-novel length Snarry (which has received rave reviews, BTW).
In still more evil deeds, this is the year I discovered the joy of torrent downloading, only to be sent a cease-and-desist letter from my ISP a few short months later. Just recently I've discovered the joy of "YouTube ripping," which
kavieshana tells me is so 2006 it never occurred to her to suggest it as an alternative.Related, this is the year I discovered two great new bands, Imperative Reaction and mind.in.a.box. Watch this video to hear my favorite song by them; it starts kind of slow, then builds to one kick-ass verse, then ends far too soon (don't pay any attention to the video itself, it seems to have nothing to do with the song at all):
This is the year (maybe the last) I visited my family and realized they could possibly have some deep-seated emotional problems; like, should probably be in therapy caliber of problems.
This is the year Tery broke her 4-year winning streak of the neighborhood Christmas lights competition -- which would be easier to accept if the winners didn't only turn their lights on for the judging, and never again afterwards.
This is the year I learned that good things come to those who wait, that DVDs drop in price steadily if you're patient enough, and that not seeing movies in the theater whenever the mood strikes me isn't going to kill me.
Resolutions for 2011: Save, save, save (money); and lose, lose, lose (more weight. Hopefully. I seem to have plateaued for the past few weeks).
First picture of me taken in 2011:
And oh hell, have a couple of adorable ferrets in lurve, good way to start the year:
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I like Win7 just fine, except for this one little thing of regular crashes. My friend who suffered through Windows Vista had the same problem. She said all online advice was to avoid turning the computer off and just putting it to sleep. We do that, but after three or four days the background running processes bog it down so much that it's excruciating to try to do anything on it. So it has to be restarted, leading to an anxiety-filled few moments of waiting breathlessly to see if it will make it past the logo screen or not (srsly: Once the only way to save it was to get a restore point from the install disc. Restarting your computer should NOT be this stressful). Madness. I've ordered a thumb drive for backing up very important stuff to make it a little less heartbreaking if/when I'm forced to do a factory recovery to save the damn thing.
Does your friend have Windows Home or Professional? I'm running Prof. Wonder if it makes a difference?
As I understand it, international torrenters are safer than Americans. We don't get caught unless the file owner registers a complaint with the ISP, who otherwise don't really care but are legally obligated to notify the offender. After that they may or may not put you on a watch list, but since I don't want to risk it I'll never know for sure.
My friend also is a regular (she turned me onto it in the first place), probably uses it way more than me and so far hasn't been caught. It's hella unfair.
LOL Well thank god it wasn't just ME who didn't know about it. This is how I do it: I download YT videos to my hard drive using RealPlayer. From there they have to be converted because YT uses that foolish .flv format that no one else has heard of. I found a great free program here that helpfully offers mp3 as an option. A couple of clicks and it basically extracts the audio from the video into an mp3! Voila!
Now I hope you aren't an especially clever internet gestapo who just tricked me into a full confession. :P
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Ah! Probably why I had no idea about it is because I avoid RealPlayer like something to avoid. The flv converter is pretty interesting though! I'd love to have me some YouTube videos as mp3's.
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