Off Topic With Ashley

I am super duper tired right now, but I’m waiting up for Mum’s laptop to finish backing up.

Since it arrived it’s been a bit problematic. I wiped the default Dell install because it was crippled with pre-installed junk and the screen resolution was stuck on something odd. After installing a clean copy of Windows, everything ran perfectly — except the computer wouldn’t turn off.

Every time you’d instruct it to shut down, it would hang on the blue “welcome” screen and fail to shut down. Ever. You’d have to hold in the power button to give it a hard shutdown, at which point the tortured little laptop would let out a squeal of pain and the disk platters would misalign and crash into each other with extraordinary crunches. It wasn’t the most ideal situation.

So after a month of not having the time, I’m finally backing the thing up properly tonight so I can give it a fresh install and see if that fixes the problem. At this point I’d much rather leave it and go to bed, but I know I’ll be in all kinds of trouble in the morning if it isn’t back where it belongs.

I went to my sister Terrie’s place for dinner tonight. That was something notable.

We had pizza from the pizza place at Narangba, and while it wasn’t as good as it usually is, it was still delicious. The ironic thing is that most of the complaints involved there being too much topping. I guess that’s a first world problem.

My pizza was mostly fine except in what’s lately become a depressing trend in the pizza industry, it had really massive chunks of bacon on it. When I say really massive chunks, I mean really massive chunks you wouldn’t put in your mouth before chopping up style chunks. In addition to that, these really massive chunks were terrible quality meat — really chewy, gristley, dry, unpleasant stuff that you gag on before sticking your fingers down your throat expressly to pick the stuff out style terrible.

This is another first world problem, but it makes a terrible farce of gourmet pizza. I’m not sure who to misdirect my apathy towards.

In other news, I finally got this site I’ve been working on for the last few weeks live and operational. I’m not particularly happy with how it turned out design-wise as we had to butcher it last-minute and on a budget, but the back-end is pretty neat. I’m not going to link it here either, because I’d like to keep business things separate, so I’ll write about it on my blog later.

I’ve been lazy, but also somewhat hesitant in blogging lately because of an influx of feedback coming in via Facebook which makes me hold my own writing to the impossibly high standard of other people’s opinion. My long-time blog policy has been “screw everybody, I’ll write what I want” so I guess I just need to reinforce that and get on with it. Also, It’s become pretty evident by now that I’m writing for the sake of it and it’s not going anywhere, so I might leave it and get some sleep.