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May. 3rd, 2014 10:27 pmI figured out the thing with the Firefox bookmarks. In case anyone else is having the same problems I was, you have to click the star button to bookmark the page, and then if you click the star again you can edit the bookmark, and move it to another folder a lot more easily. Easy peasy.
The bath chronicles continue. After a few swapped comments and a little tenseness with my parents - I don't think it's ridiculous to want a working bath or shower in the house where you live, or just to know what's happening with that situation. But anyway, after all that my dad did some work on it today, and it turns out he can't get our complicated plug switch working. We have a big knob at the end of the bath you're supposed to turn to pull the plug in or out, and with the two different screws he's using it either won't go down or won't come back up again. But it's all plumbed in underneath, and I reminded him he bought a plug on a chain a few weeks ago which will work in a pinch and doesn't require screws or anything. So fingers crossed, tomorrow we should be able to have our first bath/s in a month or two. After the shower broke last week, mum and dad apparently got used to just having stand-up washes at the sink, and thinking that was okay, with no sense of urgency about the situation from what I could tell. Like, it's what they did when they were younger and I'm sure it's perfectly effective and everything, but it's sort of making me wonder how they'd react to other things I'd consider an emergency. If the fridge broke, would we just live out of the cupboards and forage in the garden for a few weeks? If the water got shut off, would we just buy bottled water for a few months? It's like I have to recalibrate my entire perspective of them.
An ETA on a plumber to fix the shower, in case we have another bath problem, is still pending.
The bath chronicles continue. After a few swapped comments and a little tenseness with my parents - I don't think it's ridiculous to want a working bath or shower in the house where you live, or just to know what's happening with that situation. But anyway, after all that my dad did some work on it today, and it turns out he can't get our complicated plug switch working. We have a big knob at the end of the bath you're supposed to turn to pull the plug in or out, and with the two different screws he's using it either won't go down or won't come back up again. But it's all plumbed in underneath, and I reminded him he bought a plug on a chain a few weeks ago which will work in a pinch and doesn't require screws or anything. So fingers crossed, tomorrow we should be able to have our first bath/s in a month or two. After the shower broke last week, mum and dad apparently got used to just having stand-up washes at the sink, and thinking that was okay, with no sense of urgency about the situation from what I could tell. Like, it's what they did when they were younger and I'm sure it's perfectly effective and everything, but it's sort of making me wonder how they'd react to other things I'd consider an emergency. If the fridge broke, would we just live out of the cupboards and forage in the garden for a few weeks? If the water got shut off, would we just buy bottled water for a few months? It's like I have to recalibrate my entire perspective of them.
An ETA on a plumber to fix the shower, in case we have another bath problem, is still pending.
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May. 1st, 2014 09:16 pmFirefox has updated itself, and it no longer lets you put a bookmarked page into a particular folder in one go. It puts it into 'Unsorted Bookmarks', and you have to draaaaag it out of there and into the right folder, which might be many scrolls down the page. I don't understand why they have done this or why they would do this or why they haven't emailed us all profusely apologising yet.
( Borderlands 2, spoilers for the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve mission )
Have I mentioned to you all that my house is slowly breaking at the moment? For some mysterious reason our internet only works on a some of our computers, and not any of the new ones, and a month or so ago our bath started leaking slightly through the kitchen ceiling, and hasn't been fixed since. Well, it was briefly, but my dad used too much sealant and the new plughole sat a little too far above the bottom of the bathtub for him to be happy with it, so he took it out again. Since then, a light in the bathroom went, and when dad was fixing it he stepped too hard off a ladder and broke the bathroom scales, and then the shower in the bathroom broke for no apparent reason. So we're currently without a shower or bath. It's not a problem for me with my laidback hygiene routine, but apparently my mum's been having to wash her feet in the sink. Hopefully the bath'll get fixed this weekend. If not, I don't know what we're going to do, other than go feral.
Meanwhile though I finally set up my Playstation 4 last week, mostly just to check it worked. Happily, it turns out the PS4 connects to the nearest TV with a HDMI cable, while the PS3 connects with SCART leads, so I won't have to be messing around with the back of the TV to change over from one to the other. They just have to share a double plugsocket with each other and the TV plug. But I don't need the PS4 too much at the moment. It doesn't connect to the internet, that I have noticed, but I've decided not to bug my dad about it, since even his brand new PC doesn't at the moment. Also I asked him to take out the VCR machine we have in the room since I don't use it, and it, the PS3 and the PS4 are all stacked on top of each other at the moment, but - I'm not going to ask about it for a bit.
I have CBT tomorrow, and I have to put some more situations and rituals on my 'Hierarchy of Anxiety'. I also have period pains. Life is hard.
( Borderlands 2, spoilers for the Wildlife Exploitation Preserve mission )
Have I mentioned to you all that my house is slowly breaking at the moment? For some mysterious reason our internet only works on a some of our computers, and not any of the new ones, and a month or so ago our bath started leaking slightly through the kitchen ceiling, and hasn't been fixed since. Well, it was briefly, but my dad used too much sealant and the new plughole sat a little too far above the bottom of the bathtub for him to be happy with it, so he took it out again. Since then, a light in the bathroom went, and when dad was fixing it he stepped too hard off a ladder and broke the bathroom scales, and then the shower in the bathroom broke for no apparent reason. So we're currently without a shower or bath. It's not a problem for me with my laidback hygiene routine, but apparently my mum's been having to wash her feet in the sink. Hopefully the bath'll get fixed this weekend. If not, I don't know what we're going to do, other than go feral.
Meanwhile though I finally set up my Playstation 4 last week, mostly just to check it worked. Happily, it turns out the PS4 connects to the nearest TV with a HDMI cable, while the PS3 connects with SCART leads, so I won't have to be messing around with the back of the TV to change over from one to the other. They just have to share a double plugsocket with each other and the TV plug. But I don't need the PS4 too much at the moment. It doesn't connect to the internet, that I have noticed, but I've decided not to bug my dad about it, since even his brand new PC doesn't at the moment. Also I asked him to take out the VCR machine we have in the room since I don't use it, and it, the PS3 and the PS4 are all stacked on top of each other at the moment, but - I'm not going to ask about it for a bit.
I have CBT tomorrow, and I have to put some more situations and rituals on my 'Hierarchy of Anxiety'. I also have period pains. Life is hard.
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Jun. 21st, 2013 12:16 amI updated my Firefox plug-ins, as their support page recommended, and now I can play videos in Firefox! Also, I can browse my files to add images to Livejournal posts, which for some reason wasn't working before. AND, now I've updated my Realplayer, it's actually working, and I can open it and access all the videos I saved to my library there! IT'S A VERY GOOD TIME FRANKLY.
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Jun. 13th, 2013 03:56 pmI've finally made the change from Internet Explorer to Firefox, after meaning to for some months. I'm no longer sure exactly how I did without AdBlocker.
Ironically, one of the other things it's made better is the fact that my (Microsoft) Hotmail account, which has been basically unusable since it was 'upgraded', now works better with Firefox than it ever did with (Microsoft) Internet Explorer. So well done there, Microsoft.
Unfortunately, at the moment Firefox also won't let me play videos, of any kind, which I assume is some sort of Flash issue. Also I don't seem to be able to change the extensions on files when I download them, or choose which folder to save them to very easily. But you know. Literally the only metaphor I can come up with is "the course of true love never did run smooth", and I don't feel THAT strongly about it. But you get the idea.
I have also had my hair cut today. I love having short hair. I'm still at the phase where I keep having to run my fingers through it because I'm suprised at where it stops though.
And last night I was thinking about complimentary colours before I went to sleep, and I had a dream about aliens that were ruled by a red and green snake figure, and a super alien car they brought to Earth, which was also red and green. Well done brain.
And apparently now I need to go install a dictionary or language pack so Firefox will understand I am British. Toodles.
Ironically, one of the other things it's made better is the fact that my (Microsoft) Hotmail account, which has been basically unusable since it was 'upgraded', now works better with Firefox than it ever did with (Microsoft) Internet Explorer. So well done there, Microsoft.
Unfortunately, at the moment Firefox also won't let me play videos, of any kind, which I assume is some sort of Flash issue. Also I don't seem to be able to change the extensions on files when I download them, or choose which folder to save them to very easily. But you know. Literally the only metaphor I can come up with is "the course of true love never did run smooth", and I don't feel THAT strongly about it. But you get the idea.
I have also had my hair cut today. I love having short hair. I'm still at the phase where I keep having to run my fingers through it because I'm suprised at where it stops though.
And last night I was thinking about complimentary colours before I went to sleep, and I had a dream about aliens that were ruled by a red and green snake figure, and a super alien car they brought to Earth, which was also red and green. Well done brain.
And apparently now I need to go install a dictionary or language pack so Firefox will understand I am British. Toodles.
