Oh for the love of .............

OK, I'm not the computer literate person I thought I was. I may have passed my ECDL but that doesn't make me a genius does it!
For the best part of the day I have been trying - unsuccessfully to burn a cd, or infact burn a dvd-rw to no avail.
First up the videos that I collected from YouTube on Doctor Who and David Tennant to music from some bloody good people who know how to make music vids were on RealPlayer. This in itself I thought not a problem. However, IT IS!

I tried to burn a dvd-rw disc but it rejected it and said I needed a cd-r which I understand to be audio and not visual. But after a lot of frustration, accepted this and sorted out my videos to be burned onto the disc. Then I was met with 'Computer does not have enough virtual memory - windows will rectify this problem. So for about almost an hour I sat and waited and waited and still nothing emerged, in fact the whole screen froze. So I thought I'd try and give my computer more virtual memory. But then that was a problem, because I didn't know what I was doing and didnt want to destroy my only means of keeping in touch with friends and family. So I decided to delete games and other non important items off the computer to free up space. That too froze on the screen. I pressed ctrl, alt, del and everything went off. So retried and got the same freeze. I did a scan for bugs, quarantined 97 adware cookies and started again.
The time is nearing 4:30pm, son is moaning he's hungry and wants cereal, I refuse him access to the cupboard and offer biscuit to keep him going while I struggle to maintain a sense of calm.

Needless to say, after three hours of trying to get disc copied or burned (copying was going to take 6 hours and 31 minutes), I turned off the computer and made tea and this is now the first time back on since I left for tea. It's a little after 10:30pm. I am calmer if not a little pissed off, and still without disc recorded and saved for prosperity.

I like Obscuras work on Youtube and his approach to AvenueQ and Doctor Who sketch 'If you were gay', and apart from a few others, I really want to keep it on file so that I can watch it in the comfort of my own room while I'm ironing. I don't want to use it anywhere else, just for me. How hard can it be to do this? Absolutely bloody impossible without a computer geek sitting beside me, spots and frizzy hair and glasses. I'd settle for the glasses and a Time Lord right now, might be a lot better than the usual geek.

So if anyone does happen to read my posts, please offer some assistance as I'd be very happy.

So much for last post of 2008, but you can't be expected to get everything right, can you?