Technical Difficulties of the Third Kind

Tonight my computer actually made me cry.

Does anyone have a secondhand laptop with decent speed? I’m definitely buying.

I hope I may be forgiven a rant under the circumstances. If that’s not what you want to read, click here for the raincoaster randomizer and have fun.

Moving on…

I’ve been sick since the end of August, nearly got sent to the hospital for it, am trying eight different ways to get the mold situation in my apartment dealt with, got a super new currently-undiagnosed thing that could be nothing or could be a big deal, we will have to wait and see, started two new jobs this month neither of which I have been able to do well enough at in my opinion, my grandmother is in the hospital and barely hanging on, I have worked about 60 hours in the last four days, quite a lot of it on my feet, and the computer is so slow that in order to move the cursor you click where you want it to go and walk away, wash a couple of mugs and start the tea brewing, come back and watch it appear.

Tomorrow I am trucking out to Surrey (two hours on transit each way) to cover for a friend who has to leave a conference early. Then, after about an hour and a half, I am trucking all the way back to downtown to meet with some blogging clients and teach them all about WordPress (if I can talk past all the coughing). Then I am coming home and posting on TeenyManolo and Ayyy and, if tomorrow is anything like today, that will take me till about three in the morning. Then I will think about posting to raincoaster, realize I haven’t done the affiliate links for the Manolosphere, sigh and think about crying again, and then go do the damn links.

And the day after that I’m in for about twelve hours of work outdoors and three miles of walking, minimum, and hopefully it won’t rain because I’m supposed to be liveblogging. IF they have a computer for me, which they probably won’t. I don’t get the impression it’s considered a priority. Mind you, if they don’t have one the one I have certainly won’t be able to handle liveblogging, so I can just turn around and come home. And get a reputation as someone who doesn’t do her work.

Swell.

Got to go, got six affiliate links to do…

UPDATE: and the post for Ayyyy. The Teenymanolo one took me five hours or so, thanks to this computer and the fact that the version of WordPress we’ve got doesn’t seem to work properly. If I collapse at the conference I hope they take me to the hospital in New West, not the one in Surrey.

UPDATE 2.5 hours later: Ayyyy post done. On to affiliate linking. There is now no possibility of my getting eight hours of sleep.

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Oh, if only!

The Casting Call of Cthulhu

Hang on to your Elder Signs: it’s The Casting Call of Cthulhu, the eldritchiest ten-minute comedy short you’ve ever seen. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll fear for your very sanity! But if you read this blog regularly, I’m sure you’re used to that.

Thirsty?

I bought some of the most interesting tea from Ten Ren the other day: lychee ball jasmine tea. I didn’t even know lychees had balls, let alone such big ones! And it’s beautifully Cthulhoid once it’s been steeped. The damn tentacles even writhe as if in pain! It’s like watching Jacques Cousteau’s Adventures in R’lyeh right there in your teapot.

Cthulhu tea

Digital Shrine at Parade of Lost Souls: Participate!

Parade of Lost Souls

(psst, can I get some coverage up in here? Links, tweets, emails, posts gratefully accepted. Spread the word and win fabulous, yet completely imaginary, prizes)

stolen from the FearlessCity website:

Fearless City LogoSaturday, Oct 25th, 2008, Grandview Park, Vancouver, BC
Time: 6.30 PM, procession at 7:00 PM


The Parade of the Lost Souls is a lively commemoration of the cycle of life and death, and of facing fears in order to live life to its fullest. Costumed stilt walkers, jugglers, dancers, skeletal brides, blessed witches, ghastly ghouls, and prancing pixies lead a walking procession through the neighbourhood to honour the dead, wake the living and celebrate.

The Digital Shrine at Parade of the Lost Souls is an installation where hand-made / solid shrine objects are placed, notes of remembrance can be written and posted on paper or video, and a
projection screen mixes text, pictures and video. The Digital Shrine is a way to pay tribute to friends and loved ones who have DIED or things that have PASSED.

Send your text, images, video up to 10mb to Shrine08 curator Flick Harrison: shrine08 at publicdreams dot org

OR post to YOUTUBE / FLIKR & tag with shrine08 and we’ll find it!

Deadline for youtube / flikr / email content: Oct 24th

Text / picture SMS messages: During Parade only.

text / pic to: 778-320-6673

or TWITTER #shrine08

Or come to Shrine Making Workshops:

http://www.publicdreams.org/section_details.html?trunk_id=1&branch_id=13&page_no=3

and SEE THE DIGITAL SHRINE at Grandview Park at Parade of Lost Souls

Terms of Use: All submissions will be licensed to Public Dreams Society under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5, Canada terms.

Digital Shrine Website, including submission instruction sheet /handbill:
http://tinyurl.com/3nqzro

Public Dreams Society thanks Fearless City Mobile and DTES Community Arts Network for their help in creating the Digital Shrine.

Thanks,
Flick Harrison
Digital Shrine 08 Curator
http://tinyurl.com/3nqzro
shrine08 AT publicdreams DOT org