Ohio is getting off far more lightly than anticipated so far

[cornerofmadness]

I, on the other hand, am not but more on that later. So far it's a steady but not very hard rain and the winds are much less severe at 20 mph. It's not really any different from any autumn rain, cold and miserable. It's supposed to freeze and then snow (but they've been predicting this snow for a while and no signs of it yet). Then rain. If the predictions are right (and I wouldn't hold my breath) it'll be raining a straight week. The problem is we have a lot of little creeks. They're already flooding. It'll be in my kitchen again if it keeps up.

I was pretty happy with getting off lightly. I had a nice long read in the tub, Soul had been playing all day. As I got out of the tub, I wrung out my face towel. I do it every night. Tonight something tears in the scar tissue of my bad thumb. Hurts like holy hell. It's swollen, the joint is dislocated and I can't make it stay in place without the brace and the nerves keep firing. Well this blows.

I go out and it gets worse. I forgot to pick up the enzymatic cleaner where SOul pissed last time so he found a completely new place to piss right by the couch. I about lost it (yes, I still haven't found a place for him that isn't an automatic death sentence. This place blows).

Then I come in to the computer and my flash drive isn't reading. I panic. ALL my lectures are on here. Well after losing two flashes already this year and the corruption issues I've been having I DO have back ups but not of all the work I did today. I luckily find my older flash and put it in but it too isn't reading. Here suddently my computer isn't calling it disk K but some other random letter it's never been before. The disk is fine.

So now I'm looking up computers. I know Alphonse is dying. Can anyone explain to me who/what the alienware computers are and why costco has them at twice the price of anything else?

Then I tried to put my tens unit on my bad shoulder and it's not working either. It was fine yesterday. It's acting like it has a loose wire. these things are expensive and I'm going to have to call about this. I'll try new electrodes but I think it's the unit.

But I have to say, compared to what my east coast friends are going through, this is nothing but an inconvienence. I hope everyone is safe. (though I kind of wish the thumb thing hadn't happened because that really hurt).

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'm glad so far, so good for you and Sandy.

You and Soul and your thumb and your computer, on the other hand. AIEE.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah me too. it seems like WV is sucking up all our snow (poor them)

my thumb is filled with blood, like a giant grape full of it

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Eww to your grapey thumb. I'm trying to figure out how I got a cut under my fingernail on my left forefinger. Yeowtch.

Poor WV and snow. *shiver* We've just had wind today.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

probably a piece of paper. it likes to do that.

thumb is :(

we have snow and rain and whee.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That finger hasn't been near paper today; I generally get papercuts at work breaking down or opening boxes, and didn't do that today. IT IS A HALLOWEEN MYSTERY.

Finger is :(, too.

I saw you had a snowman at school(?).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's a mystery

poor finger

I DID.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

It is, and a painful one. It hurts worse today.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

naturally. i couldn't find my brace for my thumb

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Of course not.

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Aaagh! You have the amazing tear-apart body. :-(

Here's hoping the creek stays outside the house!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i do. it's quite a bizarre flesh form

so far it is

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

Giant blood grape--now there's a cozy bedtime image. Yet another reason not to play on the computer late at night.

I think Pittsburgh is more likely to get shellacked by the storm than you are. I hope your parents are battened down.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

isn't it though. stupid thumb

they're fine. THe heavy snow was supposed to hit here and they were only to get rain. Also dad lives on a very high hill. If it flood there, start building an ark

[anguisel.livejournal.com]

Alienware computers are simply put, gaming machines. They are what you get when you want to play MMORPGs on the best settings to get all the pretty pretties and no lag. As such, they are expensive as hell. If you don't plan on dabbling into such things then just a regular desktop would work for you. If you watch netflix or hulu on your computer though look for one with a bit more oomph to it mainly more ram, it will make streaming the movies and shows smoother.

[sonjajade.livejournal.com]

^^^ this exactly. I was actually going to suggest that you could probably find a nice laptop if you're not using it for gaming, but then I thought you might lose it in the mess because I know I would lose mine in my mess, or my kid would ruin it like he did my phone

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

laptops are not for me. I blow them up within a year and I have a tiny netbook for the times i need to be mobile (which is rare). I need something with a ton of memory

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks (and yes i saw that after I looked at the right part of the web site)

i loathe steaming video on my computer and while I would love to play games I would never get a damn thing done if I did. So I'll take a pass

[lunaria-kitty.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear it hasn't hit as bad there as of yet.

What a frustrating day though. :( Hope your thumb gets to feeling better. D:

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks so far so good weather wise

and thanks. the thumb has moved on to numb. i'll take that

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

glad for you, things are going quite so well for my sister in new jersey

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks.

I hope your sister is safe. Ny/NJ are horrendous

[ital-gal.livejournal.com]

thanks, haven't gotten a hold of them yet. a bit worried, but am sure its just power out.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes there's millions without power there. so far there has been relatively few deaths (that we know of any how)

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

*clicks*

Glad you're safe and power is still on (hope it stays that way!)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

snowing now but not much

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the weather!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. we got the snow but it's heavy and slushy and right now nothing to worry on

[likeabulldozer.livejournal.com]

I've recently switched to a mac and I love it. It is a good chunk of money, but my husband has had a macbook pro for about five years now and we've had no hardware issues or problems with it at all. My son has an imac desktop and it's been fantastic for him. He can usually destroy a computer fairly quickly, but this one has been durable and resistent to any problems. It is a fair amount of money compared to Dell desktops, but I know you've had some issues with PC's in the past so it might be worth looking into.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I can't afford them and they don't work with some of the scientific applications I need to use. go figure. But thanks