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Oct. 26th, 2013 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyWell.
For anyone who's been following my ongoing Netbook drama, yesterday my dad apparently had some trouble connecting our phone to our modem, or his phone, or something. So he called up BT and did some things and reset the router and eventually got his phone back online, and he suggested to me to today that since the router's been reset my Netbook might work now. I tried it tonight, and it connects! Privately I'm vindicated that it was actually something to do with the router and not because "Netbooks are too old for up-to-date WiFi networks", but mostly I'm just glad it's all worked out, and happy I probably won't have to call BT to try to troubleshoot the problem. And I hope it continues, naturally. Right now the Netbook is sat on a DVD case vainly trying to update every programme on it at once, as I suspected it would. At the moment it's my internet security it's trying to update - progress is at 0%. But at least it's connected! Woo hoo!
On the downside, I have a bit of fingernail caught between my teeth, and I can't get it out and it's really annoying me. Boo.
Also today I assembled a DVD storage unit (which I was delighted to find all my games fitted into - I don't even have 50 yet), and a CD storage unit because they came together in the same box. Mostly I've decided that flat-pack furniture is bollocks, and even if it only cost £20 for both they should just make it better. The holes did not line up with the other holes, I had to make the screws fit with brute violence. But I did finish them, and they both look pretty swanky. The kit came complete with 'screw covers' for the top screws, which I now realise are to cover up the scars and destruction you have to cause just to get the damn things to screw together. At least it makes me feel better that the bookcase I put together a few years ago - and which is still encasing books - ended up a little wonky. I assumed it was because I didn't have much experience, or a spirit level, or a magic penis, but no, it's just because DIY flatpack furniture is a bit shit. Anyway. I have put all my games into the DVD tower thing so I don't have to keep them in a stack that falls over easily, and at some point I will put some of my CDs in the CD tower, so I don't have to keep them in boxes anymore and can get them out with the greatest of ease. Hurrah.
Also, Coronation Street. I get that Tommy had to go quickly and without any last scenes after they fired him, but do they really have to make out it's All Tina's Fault? Like, I always assumed he'd be angry about all the stuff that she was doing and talking about with David that she didn't tell him about, but everyone's saying "oh, she moved her ex-boyfriend in!". Like - David isn't JUST her ex-boyfriend, he's also - as Tommy described him I think - her best friend. And he was living rough. I personally think LEAVING THE COUNTRY is a bit of an overreaction. But Tyrone feels perfectly alright to berate her about it and say it was all her fault. Also, TYRONE SHE ONLY WOUND UP ROB AND TRACY, THEY ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT THEIR BUSINESS, THINK OF YOUR SOUL.
But I think I've figured out why they're being so weird about David and not letting him say he didn't try to kill Nick. And why they're having people talk about Tina so weirdly, I guess. Michelle Keegan is leaving soon so she has a few big storylines coming up - one is that she's going to have an affair with Peter, which I guess is why they're having people turn on her and having her go 'off the rails' now, to try to explain why she would even consider having an affair with someone who's already attached. Which is obviously something Tina would never do. And the rumour going around at the moment is that her exit storyline is going to be that she gets murdered, and it's a big 'whodunnit' mystery. Which I genuinely find a bit horrifying, given that she's young, female and quite attractive, and I haven't seen them killing off any of the male characters who left recently. They killed Sunita just last year though. laskdjakld. It's just a rumour at the moment, and there was a rumour once that the surrogate baby she had would turn out to be hers and Tommy's and that never came off. And they could just as easily do a 'she gets attacked and ends up in a coma, will she ever wake up and say who did it?' thing. As happened with Tracy, WHEN THEY HAD A PERFECTLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO KILL HER. But it would explain why they're suddenly giving her a lot of feuds and new relationships, to increase the amount of suspects. And it would explain why David's not really bothering to defend himself - if he's living with her at the time, and a bunch of people on the street already think he's capable of murder, it'll obviously make him look even more suspicious. Or create some truly striking conversations with his family.
I really hope they don't do a murder storyline for Tina. Her life has been SO SAD so far, and it'd obviously mean she could never come back. The only two good things I can see that they could pull from the trainwreck would be, 1) assuming they didn't have David do it - which I can't imagine they would since they treat him pretty sympathetically even when he's being evil - he would be INCANDESCENT trying to furiously hunt down his best friend's murderer, while being accused of the crime himself; and 2) maybe Tracy would do it, and she'd go back to jail and we'd never have to see her again. But on the other hand: poor Rita. Oh.
For anyone who's been following my ongoing Netbook drama, yesterday my dad apparently had some trouble connecting our phone to our modem, or his phone, or something. So he called up BT and did some things and reset the router and eventually got his phone back online, and he suggested to me to today that since the router's been reset my Netbook might work now. I tried it tonight, and it connects! Privately I'm vindicated that it was actually something to do with the router and not because "Netbooks are too old for up-to-date WiFi networks", but mostly I'm just glad it's all worked out, and happy I probably won't have to call BT to try to troubleshoot the problem. And I hope it continues, naturally. Right now the Netbook is sat on a DVD case vainly trying to update every programme on it at once, as I suspected it would. At the moment it's my internet security it's trying to update - progress is at 0%. But at least it's connected! Woo hoo!
On the downside, I have a bit of fingernail caught between my teeth, and I can't get it out and it's really annoying me. Boo.
Also today I assembled a DVD storage unit (which I was delighted to find all my games fitted into - I don't even have 50 yet), and a CD storage unit because they came together in the same box. Mostly I've decided that flat-pack furniture is bollocks, and even if it only cost £20 for both they should just make it better. The holes did not line up with the other holes, I had to make the screws fit with brute violence. But I did finish them, and they both look pretty swanky. The kit came complete with 'screw covers' for the top screws, which I now realise are to cover up the scars and destruction you have to cause just to get the damn things to screw together. At least it makes me feel better that the bookcase I put together a few years ago - and which is still encasing books - ended up a little wonky. I assumed it was because I didn't have much experience, or a spirit level, or a magic penis, but no, it's just because DIY flatpack furniture is a bit shit. Anyway. I have put all my games into the DVD tower thing so I don't have to keep them in a stack that falls over easily, and at some point I will put some of my CDs in the CD tower, so I don't have to keep them in boxes anymore and can get them out with the greatest of ease. Hurrah.
Also, Coronation Street. I get that Tommy had to go quickly and without any last scenes after they fired him, but do they really have to make out it's All Tina's Fault? Like, I always assumed he'd be angry about all the stuff that she was doing and talking about with David that she didn't tell him about, but everyone's saying "oh, she moved her ex-boyfriend in!". Like - David isn't JUST her ex-boyfriend, he's also - as Tommy described him I think - her best friend. And he was living rough. I personally think LEAVING THE COUNTRY is a bit of an overreaction. But Tyrone feels perfectly alright to berate her about it and say it was all her fault. Also, TYRONE SHE ONLY WOUND UP ROB AND TRACY, THEY ARE THE SCUM OF THE EARTH, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT THEIR BUSINESS, THINK OF YOUR SOUL.
But I think I've figured out why they're being so weird about David and not letting him say he didn't try to kill Nick. And why they're having people talk about Tina so weirdly, I guess. Michelle Keegan is leaving soon so she has a few big storylines coming up - one is that she's going to have an affair with Peter, which I guess is why they're having people turn on her and having her go 'off the rails' now, to try to explain why she would even consider having an affair with someone who's already attached. Which is obviously something Tina would never do. And the rumour going around at the moment is that her exit storyline is going to be that she gets murdered, and it's a big 'whodunnit' mystery. Which I genuinely find a bit horrifying, given that she's young, female and quite attractive, and I haven't seen them killing off any of the male characters who left recently. They killed Sunita just last year though. laskdjakld. It's just a rumour at the moment, and there was a rumour once that the surrogate baby she had would turn out to be hers and Tommy's and that never came off. And they could just as easily do a 'she gets attacked and ends up in a coma, will she ever wake up and say who did it?' thing. As happened with Tracy, WHEN THEY HAD A PERFECTLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO KILL HER. But it would explain why they're suddenly giving her a lot of feuds and new relationships, to increase the amount of suspects. And it would explain why David's not really bothering to defend himself - if he's living with her at the time, and a bunch of people on the street already think he's capable of murder, it'll obviously make him look even more suspicious. Or create some truly striking conversations with his family.
I really hope they don't do a murder storyline for Tina. Her life has been SO SAD so far, and it'd obviously mean she could never come back. The only two good things I can see that they could pull from the trainwreck would be, 1) assuming they didn't have David do it - which I can't imagine they would since they treat him pretty sympathetically even when he's being evil - he would be INCANDESCENT trying to furiously hunt down his best friend's murderer, while being accused of the crime himself; and 2) maybe Tracy would do it, and she'd go back to jail and we'd never have to see her again. But on the other hand: poor Rita. Oh.
