When trying to watch anime from external drive:

1. Go to konsole
2. sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdh1 /mnt/ -o force
3. Profit!

(Sung to the Tigger theme)

The most wonderful thing about bondage, is bondage's a variable thing! Some people dress up in leather, others like to be tied up with string! It's kinky, dirty, flirty, hurty funfunfunfunfun, and the most wonderful thing about bondage is that iiiiittttts for everyone!

(*Warning, BDSM may or may not be for everyone.)

That is all.

What with Elder Sibling #1 Moving back in, today has been spent moving my own room around to accommodate for stuff! What stuff, you ask? Well, the computer desk that was in the study for one! I started today at 1400, and finished at around 0130.

But first!

New computer settling in nicely. I also bought a 1GB stick of RAM from www.orca.co.uk for only £23, free shipping! Ordered on Thursday, and it arrived on Saturday morning! It was for my laptop, by the way, seeing as it was running on only 192MB of RAM (256, - 64 for the... *shudder* S3UniChrome graphics card.). It is now running beefy and powerful on kubuntu Linux. More on that later. I had to take the motherboard panel off to fit it, but I'm getting to be a seasoned veteran at such matters, and was able to do it in my pyjamas. Syra said not to mention that, and got thoughts of Kelly from www.khaoskomix.com (Which I thoroughly recommend if you're after a nice GLBT webcomic with cute storylines and drama. So not many of you will take that recommendation, then ;) ) due to the fact the character works on PCs naked to avoid static. Woof, as Reb would say.

But yes! kubuntu! It is awesome! I've switched my laptop to running it now, with Kopete (Multi-protocol IM client) and Konversation (IRC) running on there most of the time, and my main PC is normally in kubuntu mode unless I want to play WoW or CoH, then I switch over to Windows XP.

I don't know what it is about kubuntu, but... even if it can be a little fustrating to get to grips with, and if I have to do some stuff to get things working using command lines and sudo apt-gets, I find it so rewarding and fun. All the little touches and such, I'm picking up the OS rather quickly. I just need to learn more. Might get some Linux magazines.

Alright, the room move!

Basically: The computer desk came into my room, and my old desk with 3 drawers left. My bed moved, and my wardrobe, chest of drawers is now where my bed is. The computer desk is where the Wardrobe is. The bookshelf that was near the chest of drawers is now where the computer desk was. The TV cabinet with consoles/DVD player is now where the PC was.

Don't worry. There'll be pictures. But it was a lot of work.

Including hiding some stuff so that it wouldn't be found if parental units were assisting. Finally, a use for the Catwoman DVD box, helping to hide battery bratwurst. Though even with those hidden, there's still the wrist cuff with shackles, PVC top, collars and a whole load of candles that might raise eyebrows if anyone snooped.

I'm pleased with my new computer desk. Why? Because it's let me do something nice. All the little gifts from my friends, the plush toys, ornaments, pictures, are somewhere in view of it, so if I start to feel lonely for people, I can look around and find something to remind me that I have friends in various places.

Interupt: I just remembered, I'm looking to fill in Kontact (Contact address book and various other stuff program for kubuntu) with details, so may need to acquire addresses and the like from people. And get working on Christmas cards. Hopefully this year I won't send Jen and Paul the card that Ellie and J were getting.

Resume: The wireless router/modem that Dom gave me is right by me too, which counts for reminding me. It's cool and blinky. And my Minako doll (made by Ellie) is sitting with two crazy Japanese robobear pet things on her lap by the DVD player. Plush kittens on the monitor (From Paul and Jen and Ellie and J respectively), a nice little candle holder (cause I love burning candles) from Jitze, which has my house keys sitting in, the two cat ornaments from Lorne and Ellie and J, a windchime from Ellie and J. I do have the Sonic the Hedgehog VHS from Matt, but that's in a safe place instead of cluttering my worktop. A set of Batman: TAS DVD's from Alec, too.

Bobble is around somewhere too. I think he's hanging from my fan looking all Bobble-y.

I realise more and more lately how much my friends mean to me, and incidently, how much I miss being around them. It's a small world, but just not small enough. So initiating hug projection fields.

Mum said I should try to girly up my room a little. But... I don't want to! I like my room how it is. I have my plush kittens and stuff, and the nice boxes of jewellery, plus perfume bottles. That's damn girly enough, and I love my tech! Also want to get some posters on the wall to break up the beigeness a bit. I have a nice Ghost in the Shell one and an Akira one, and I have some other bits to put on the wall by my desk too. Like the photo of me with Ghost Widow and Ms. Liberty from Memorabilia 06.

Speaking of which, Memorabilia Winter Show 07 is soon, which I will be going to. With shortbread, delicious shortbread! Jitze'll be going, as will Ellie hopefully. Matt might be there. Paul/Crimson Archer and Kevin/Dante will be there too, I've met Dante before, he's a nice bloke, and Paul's good to talk to as well. I think Mark/Britanic will also be there, and Peter/Pious. Busy time!

Speaking of meet ups, when cleaning not only did I find a plasma ball, for glowy goodness, but I also found a digicam with pictures from Bristol 2006 on! And ones from the girly meet me, Jen, Ellie and Stef had in April 06.

Makes me think back to April 06 again, when I met Paul and Jen for the first time! That was a fun weekend, wish I managed to cram in more time with them though, but I was still a little shy.

Okay, I'm still a bit shy now, but I'm improving!

Work is okay at the moment, though yet again I didn't win cleaner of the month. What do I have to do to win those darn chocolates? :<

Speaking of Work! The course that I wanted to do at college which they did the year before but not this year, they are doing next year, so I could take it there, keep my job and get Adult Learning Grant to boost my funds. So at the moment, that is the current plan, until something better comes along. Better offers feel free to apply!

And that's about all for today! Oh, Machinae Supremacy have released their first music video, for 'Through the Looking Glass', which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQnpB3e3vus

Th-th-th that's all folks!

PS: Except for the nightmares again. :< Stupidness, yet still upsetting. *Kicks nightmares*

Hey True Believers!

Where to begin with...

Made up a few new icons, such as the one you see above. Like any good little geeky perv, the [Submit] button has always gotten some chortles from me. And thus I have framed it in userpic form!

Speaking of submission, I have been shopping online! After some late night browsing of Honour's website (NSFW), I decided to purchase a nice PVC top for only £13.99. Now, this is a significant purchase, because A: It's my first bit of fetishwear clothing (Not counting my knee high leather high heeled boots), and I'm actually having it delivered to my home address. Which may raise some questions. Ah well. It won't be the most shocking thing that they find out about! For those of you who want a link to the item in question, it is:

This nice little number, right here.

Also, the finance form for my new PC finally arrived today, so that will be posted tomorrow, as we missed the last post, and in 2-3 weeks time my new system should arrive! DUAL CORE POWAH, baby!

Of course, it might arrive when I'm visiting Ellie and J at the end of the month, but... this goes against every geeky bone in my body to say, but a new PC isn't as important as seeing my friends, getting hugs and hanging out. Almost a bit of a hitch, with work being scheduled to finish at 5.30 on that day, and my train was at 5.11, but I was able to haggle and beg, and now I'm working from 9-4, so I have time to get home, get out of my work shirt and into something nice to travel in (And look hot in. I remember going to London by train the first time, and this cute blonde girl was looking at me.)

I feel all dirty now! I better read up on old processors to regeekify.

Anyway, the new PC is from Aria, and apart from the postal suckitude strikes, I'm looking forward to getting more from them in the future. Already planning on a nice new monitor!

( Now for some YouTube News! )

( World of Warcraft )

( I need a City of Heroes! Or something. )

Moving on from LJ Cuts and the like, BESM is going well, both with the campaign that Ellie runs (2 years and 2 months!), and I'm planning on running a tiny little campaign, generic swords and sorcery style. God Bless 3rd Ed Power Flux. It's Dynamic Sorcery, but better! My M&M campaign, I cancelled, because I hated the system and it hated me.

Also, a possible idea for a diceless system. Assign a rank to a stat/power/skill, draw playing cards using opposed checks. Something to muse over on long train journey to Ellie and J's in a fortnight.

Work is still bleh mostly. But getting another job without own transport is difficult. Will keep at it though. If only I could get a nice IT apprentiship somewhere.

My room may possibly be moved around tomorrow (Well, today, just after sleep.) So I had to do those frantic little things tonight, like hide things that I wouldn't want found when being assisted in moving, and hide them in a new, safe place. It's all very cloak and dagger.

Next month is Memorabilia, where I'll be meeting Jitze again, and hopefully Gid-Andy and Matt from the old crew, and some new faces as well, like Mark, Paul, Peter. Dante too, maybe. I know I'll get hugs from Mark and Paul. (Not Wordy-Paul though. Hugs from him would be nice, as they would be from Jen too.) And I may get some pictures done, I may not. After all, money is tight due to new PC-age, and paying off my laptop.

Speaking of people, I need to try and see Dom and Reb again at some point soon. I still owe Dom hugs after he got me my shiney LinkSys router, and Reb is... well, Reb! Alec too... Jed-Andy (So I can steal his hat again. It was a very nice hat.)

There's a reel of people I'd also like to meet but can't because they live in other countries. Someday, dammit, someday!
(Yeah, I'm looking at you Cy, Kompi!)

And that's all I have for today!

And some good old Juan/Isaac userpic, because they're cute.

As you can notice, thar be adverts present. Just trying it out really, if the ads get too obnoxious or people don't like them, I can remove them. But is 6 userpics really enough compared to 15? Though not sure about Sepia me though.

Was thinking of getting one with my collar on. I love that collar. It's nice, real leather, with three d-rings. It's a little too constricting for everyday wear at its most comfortable/snug fit, so I usually have it one more notch out for day to day wear.

Speaking of getting things, it may be time for some new glasses. I do love the purple-y blue frames of my current pair though. Some work friends have said "Why not get contacts?"

I look hot in glasses, okay? I -like- seeing myself in glasses. I hate seeing myself without them! It just looks... odd!

More new stuff, will be getting my haircut soon. I -really- need to go more regularly, but I don't like the local ones. I'd like to try my hair short for a change, but everyone says long hair suits me better. Long hair also gets in my mouth/eyes at work, which is mucho annoying.

Moving on to work (And possibly invoking the Picard song: She just kept talking in one continuously unbroken sentance moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic.), Katie left the job today. She's working at PC World now, so I mourn and weep for her soul, but it was a little crappy how she left. When the last person left, they got a card, cake, flowers and a hug from the boss.

Just a card for Katie, and she's been there for 3-4 years.

Ouch.

Kind of makes me wonder what I'll get when I leave. Speaking of which (TOPIC JUMP HA!) I bought my Hello Kitty mug home. Mew mew mew.

I think I get more kittyish every day. If only I could curl up on the arm of a sofa and get petted all day.

Hmm, coming in this week should be:

An entry on my adventures in YouTube. As you can see, my page is linked at the top of the journal, and yes, I am planning to try and add some videos too it. If only I liked the sound of my voice more. And some links to shows that I love.

An entry about City of Heroes. The good RPing, the Bad RPing, and the just plain ugly RPing.

Entry on World of Warcraft, rants and other stuff about it.

Some more personal entries, like about my room that should be moved about soon, and other interesting boring things.

And possibly some tech and cooking articles. That may relate to YouTube.

And a whole load of other random junk. And Memes.

Anyhow, that is it for this entry, so I will bid you all adieu.

Well, currently a lovely grey and wet Tuesday afternoon, and I face the exciting prospect of walking to work. That'll get me all damp.

Okay, that was a bad joke. Sorry!

Aaaanyway. Still no sign of that accursed Credit Agreement from v12Finance. For those not in the know, MAIN-MX9, the now several years old Prebuilt TiNY PC that I used to game on, died. And I thought "Oooh, this is the perfect opportunity to upgrade to some Dual Core, 2 gig, turn on a dime machine." Well, compared to the old one that is. If I really wanted to own the skies with thrust vectoring, Quad Core Extreme, 3 gig ram, and a chunky 768mb graphics card. I just don't have the cash for that little ditty.

One day, though... one day.

Only problem is, the Postal Service went on strike. Damn you, Royal Mail workers union! I don't care about you, I just want my form to arrive and be sent back! I need a gaming PC! I was reading about Windows 1.0 and have gained an addiction to Internet Reversi. And Solitare. 153 seconds, my best time yet.

Don't make me break out Mahjong.

( Work Rant Underneath )

Still, with my PC breaking it's a good thing I didn't get into City College Norwich. Adult Learning Grant sucks, and I wouldn't have been able to upgrade my PC for a verrrrry long time on what they supply.

Still, leaves me wondering what to do... computers are the one thing I've been good at, and heck, I took the opportunity to poke around my dead PC and start taking it apart and rebuilding it to gain confidence and knowledge of the inner workings. What was I scared of in the first place?

A tiny bit sad that in trying to get my PC out of Blue Screen Hell I formatted my main hard drive. Several gigs of 4chan images, lost. As well as some cool music. Just couldn't keep the PC running long enough to save it all on the spare drive.

MAKE BACKUPS, DAMN YOU WOMAN!

In good news, I'll be off to Ellie and J's for a whole 5 days at the end of the month. Well, not a whole five days, but still. 4 nights! Hopefully I can get some more of my Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex fix if I look cute enough.

Which reminds me, the early-early christmas present I ordered still hasn't arrived yet. Another 'Grr, Argh' Mutant Enemy moment for Royal Mail, and I still need to find Ellie something.

On a tangent of Ellie > Kitty, my Hello Kitty mug is still at work. I must rescue it.

( CoH and WoW cut )

Oh, Heroes Season 2: Good so far.
Armitage 3 - Poly Matrix: Cool film, great dub.
Reno 911 - Great as always.

That's me signing out for the moment.

The all new Ellen is a top of the range design, that can easily compact into a light, portable and storable travel size to take on the go. Ellen is trained in domestic cleaning of a range of rooms and items and is easily upgradable to cooking, and ironing and folding with some additional programs.

Ellen is the perfect companion for a shopping trip, where she can give advice, carry things and administer hugs and talk when needed. Ellen is also fully online capable, computer literate and can be upgraded to perform PC maintance and repair!

The Ellen is also very economical and requires a small amount of food to work, as well as appropriate, compatible hugs and affection. The revolutionary Ellen creation process means that Ellen's are soft and huggable, and their attire can easily be changed (additional clothing not included) to match any situation, home or event.

There is a firmware update from Ellen .21 to Ellen .22 to be released 04/08. Also a hardware upgrade slated for late 2008/2009

While additional clothes do come seperate, Ellen does come with a small range of clothing for several occasions, as well as her own computer systems, watchable and readable media and accessories.

The Ellen is also programmed with her own cleaning and maintanence routines, and will seek tech support if they cannot resolve issues.

The Ellen's are free to purchase, though shipping costs for Ellen and accessories apply, as does maintanence for food, internet access and other essentials. Downtime is 6-8 hours, though can operate on less for a few days at a time. Space required is slightly bigger than Ellen size

Shipping costs apply for accessories but can be mitigated through call and collect from depot collection. Some kind of fair use terms and agreements contract may need to be drafted.