some are bound to fail

[muladhara]

The Sky box is misbehaving again, and I want to break it into pieces (except that this will not fix the problem). It lost the satellite signal earlier on today, and I was heading out, so I said to mum that I'd sort it when I got back (because usually there's a quick fix that works OK). So I did, and it was fixed.

I put The Wolverine on to watch. The Sky box decided to lose its signal again during the time the DVD player was on.

WHAT IS THIS FUCKERY I DON'T EVEN.

Because none of the quicker fixes are working. So now the box is off overnight, and I'm going to look at it in the morning. I actually think some of the problem might be the viewing card, because it looks discoloured on the one side.

I mean, it could have been the weather but, despite heavy rain being predicted for all day, the weather's been pretty nice for most of the day. And anyway, the box has worked in really crappy weather conditions before.

I don't understand modern technology.

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I came up with an idea for another story, and now I am tentatively mucking about with it. I have names for two of the main three characters, I just need a girl's name I like now (this is hard - I'm really picky about girls' names). I scribbled some of the story down while I was waiting for the bus to come home this afternoon.

(I should probably write this story because it will totally satisfy my id, I think).

ALSO.

The abominations story was two years old yesterday! *throws confetti*

I don't have an excerpt of it to post this year, though, because all the bits I want to share are spoilery :(

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In other news: cetirizine knocks me on my arse* if I take it during the day, and seems to not help me sleep** if I take it at night. Also if I take it at night, it doesn't help so much with allergies during the day (so it seems). But I've only been taking it two days, so we'll see.

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*By which I mean it makes me feel heavy and sluggish. I said to mum that I hadn't felt like since I was badly depressed, which brought on a whole bunch of concern (probably my mood yesterday didn't help, either, as I was quite weepy and sad). So I had to reassure mum that no, generally I was fine, just very sluggish.

**I think some stimulants and depressants have reverse effects on me - it's always been that if I drink a lot of alcohol, I then can't sleep because I'm all jittery, and caffeine makes me sleepy a lot of the time. So it's possible that any sedative effect the cetirizine may have may not work. Again, we'll see.

Comments

[lenores_raven]

I hope you'd feel better after the adjustment period. Allergies are tough...

[halley]

I learn so much from reading your post, like I had no clue what a Sky box was until now.

I hope you feel better ;_;

[muladhara]

Hopefully so! I swear my hayfever's got worse, so it's actually nice to feel kind of normal.

[muladhara]

I don't even know what the equivalent is in the US - I thought maybe a TiVO? Do you guys even still have those? Whatever, it gets us all the channels, rather than just the free ones.

Ugh me too.

[halley]

Hm. I'm not sure I know anyone personally who uses TiVO but I know what you mean!!