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Jul. 13th, 2015 02:30 pmWent to the Liquorice Festival yesterday. Problems with my ON continued, with him getting furious, not letting me speak and sometimes just walking off without a word when the subject of the boy from Saturday night came up. Apparently I 'made it worse', although we certainly didn't see anything get worse and he didn't talk about any specific thing that happened that was worse. Eventually he wanted my help with a Minecraft thing on my dad's computer, and I managed to arrange an actual conversation with him about it. I basically told him I either wanted him to explain how I'd made it worse or to apologise for his behaviour. He 'couldn't remember' how it had gotten worse after I talked to the kid, but refused to apologise. Until he really wanted my help with downloading a Minecraft file, at which point he did. I like to think I made the nature of co-operation and respectful relationships clear to him. Sadly I couldn't actually download the thing he wanted - my dad's computer didn't do the things we saw in Youtube videos. He seemed happy enough though anyway.
Meanwhile at the actual festival, I discovered Black Forest brownies and bought pictures of ponies and a gannet (beautiful birds). Grand.
I've also bought a replacement hard-drive for my PS4. Apparently it's really easy to install a new one, but it'll be the first piece of hardware I've messed with and I'm still a little nervous about it. I feel sure I'll find some way to tighten a screw too much and crack something. But the disk space on my current PS4 is just not cutting it and if I want big games like Fallout 4 it's going to be easier just to expand now. So. Fingers crossed.
Also I now have a smartphone. I don't want one, really - I got it the same way I got a mobile phone, my parents both upgraded and had a spare model about and donated it to me. So far I don't love touchscreens, it doesn't always get reception, I can't get my gmail to load, I don't recognise the ringtone, and the battery seems to be going down at an alarming rate - it was my mum's old one, so there's every chance it's already knackered. But my dad seems to be already deciding what he's going to do with my old stupidphone and wants the memory card out of it for something. So. We'll see.
Meanwhile at the actual festival, I discovered Black Forest brownies and bought pictures of ponies and a gannet (beautiful birds). Grand.
I've also bought a replacement hard-drive for my PS4. Apparently it's really easy to install a new one, but it'll be the first piece of hardware I've messed with and I'm still a little nervous about it. I feel sure I'll find some way to tighten a screw too much and crack something. But the disk space on my current PS4 is just not cutting it and if I want big games like Fallout 4 it's going to be easier just to expand now. So. Fingers crossed.
Also I now have a smartphone. I don't want one, really - I got it the same way I got a mobile phone, my parents both upgraded and had a spare model about and donated it to me. So far I don't love touchscreens, it doesn't always get reception, I can't get my gmail to load, I don't recognise the ringtone, and the battery seems to be going down at an alarming rate - it was my mum's old one, so there's every chance it's already knackered. But my dad seems to be already deciding what he's going to do with my old stupidphone and wants the memory card out of it for something. So. We'll see.
