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?

The last post of 2008

Ahh, the end of 2008 is creeping ever closer! It's been a good year for me. I've got a job which is better than last year as I think I didn't. I had a lot of rejections for my Voscarian Child story, but it was a good thing, because it made me see that I still had a long way to go before it was finally ready for publication, and let's face it, AuthorHouse Publishing have offered to publish my book if its any good, so I have until Autumn 2009 to save the money and get the book ready.
I have also been doing an OU course on Fiction writing and its helped, my work is now more detailed, I understand more about different approaches to stories and ok if I don't pass this time around, I do know my way around the storytelling. I can always take it again.

I have a lot of plans for 2009, mostly the plans I had for 2008 pushed onto the new year, but only because I couldnt achieve them - I wasn't ready. I still aim to see David Tennant in the new year but whether its going to be in Cardiff or another venue is yet to be discovered.

I'm also wondering how they're going to write him out of Doctor Who, I'm sure he's already got an inkling as to what that is, I just hope his predecessor isn't someone we've already seen in the show. It will be hard to top David as the Doctor, I think they'll lose a massive fan base when he leaves, but hopefully with Steven Moffatt at the helm, their writing should still be worth hiding behind the sofa for.

This year 2008 I got asthma, not something I relish, makes me very yukky and tired and lethargic, but that could be the iron deficiency and low blood count. Never a good combination, so next year 2009 I need to take better care of myself. Hardly likely to see David Tennant if I'm stuck in a hospital bed or my own am I?
I also hope my other half wins his case against his employers then at least I won't hear anymore about it. It's been going on now for almost 2 years.

So with the kids about to tear strips off each other and drive me insane and unable to study and settle and cope with the computer work because I'm constantly interrupted, I'll go now and find something that needs doing before the end of the year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR. And let's hope its a good one!

Sleigh Bells and galoshes

Ho Ho Ho!

Yes the festive season is once again upon us and I'm loving it. Actually I am, for once in a long time, I'm actually looking forward to Christmas and not because after Christmas we all get back to normal and carry on with our lives. I've been looking forward to my holiday with gusto, have you met gusto, say hello! It's ok, I've not been on the egg nog yet, what is egg nog, sort of sounds nice until you consider the egg. Hmm!

Well the presents are wrapped, the food is in, its raining outside and Frankie Goes to Hollywood are finishing off Power of Love for the umpteenth time. David Tennant is out of hospital and seen by Pauline in the streets of London - oh what I would give to see David Walking down the streets of Annan - yeah, like that would happen! Although stranger things have happened, dunno what, but they have happened.

I almost miss the frost and the icy blast, beats the rain anyday. I'm glad its the holidays, I've been needing this break and not feel bad for taking an impromptu day off on thursday because of the asthma and low blood thingy. At least now I can quite happily snuggle up on the sofa, watch the kids batter hell out of each other on the playstation or watch re-runs of Doctor Who and hug the cushion as I smile at David.

I'm going to make a few resolutions, I always do. I used to make 20, because I could guarantee I would achieve maybe one or two of them, but this time I'm limiting myself.

1. To have my first sci-fi novel published in Autumn 2009
2. To meet David Tennant before the end of 2009
3. To look after ME more health and wealth wise
4. To have a profitable bank account for once.

I need to look after myself more next year. I mean let's face it, I care about everyone else all of the time and I ignore myself equally as much. So for once and more often than I do at the moment, I aim to pamper myself, treat myself and be selfish more.

Ok, I do also aim to care for others, but I aim to care for myself in equal measures. The first two resolutions kind of cover that anyway, becoming a successful writer and meeting the other man of my dreams has to be worth aiming for, don't you think?

So off to blitz the house in order to achieve a quiet, less stressful Christmas - HA WHO AM I KIDDING!

I may or may not be on my blog for the entire festive period, so will say this now: MERRY XMAS ONE AND ALL AND HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR AND GET PLASTERED, YOU'LL HAVE THE WHOLE YEAR TO GET OVER ANY EMBARRASSING MOMENTS BEFORE YOU DO THEM ALL AGAIN ANYWAY.