*wanders in, looks around cautiously*

*waves*

*wanders back out to watch Batman episodes while staring at the GOG Downloader*

(I'm FINALLY backing up all of my games - I've dumped a ton of random crap from an old external drive to make room and have been working on it since Friday morning. I think I might be done by tomorrow night or sometime Tuesday. 310 out of 427 so far... yay? Until they finally do the rest of the unbundling and screw me all up again, anyway. Now I'm frantically moving more videos, since I just realized I have ~100 gigs left at the moment and still have to throw Tesla Effect and Witcher 2 on there, and between those two plus all their extras, that's 40 gigs. Thank god most of the rest are Ultima/Zork/similar. The only downside is that if I try to do much else while doing all the intense downloading, the laptop gets very, very cranky, so no Pillars for me. Not that I've touched it for the last week, between feelings of ick and feelings of loathing humanity - tends to put a damper on happy gaming. Those might be improving, so hopefully back to more regular gaming in between hunting for more online work tomorrow. On the up side, moving all this stuff around has left me with a lot of "Hey, I have that? Cool! Must watch NOW!" reactions. Nothing like rediscovering all the random things you saved/downloaded/acquired years ago and promptly forgot about.)

Good morning *hug*.
Understandably that you're tired...possible that there's sometimes no explanation for it....I think this calls for huge amounts of coffee then...

Good morning. =)

I can see why you'd be exhausted. Must've been a very short rest before that alarm went off.

Hopefully you don't mind drinking lots of things with caffeine in them. ;)
-waves back-

That sounds...not fun. My GOG folder is eating my hard drive alive, but I always grab everything as I buy it out of some weird "what if the net dies" paranoia/anxiety thing.

I'm sorry that you haven't been feeling well. The sick feeling is bad enough, but being consumed with disgust and contempt is a hell of a lot harder to shake. (In my experience, anyway.)
I'll keep my fingers crossed that the feelings go away and leave you be so you can enjoy things more.

Sounds like me and a spindle of discs I managed to hang on to from years ago. Lots of stuff loaded up there, and it'll only take a few months to get through it all.

Working through my third cup of coffee right now...
:-)

Just made another pot myself. If you can't sleep for whatever reason, might as well buzz instead. =)

I've been putting off downloading my stuff en masse because of lack of hard drive space. I finally dragged out my old external drive and poked at it before deciding I could use it, since it didn't have anything irreplaceable or indeed really important (besides the music) on it. So, yay for the Downloader.... when it doesn't do odd things like freeze or seem to stop working even though it's still going. I'm still scratching my head over the occasional 'hung' installer, too - since they all pop open upon finishing download, I have to close each of them, but there've been a handful where I had to go in through Task Manager and shut down the process, hours later, because it didn't really close.

Similar in nature is the joy of the "you can't move/delete/rename/do anything at all with that item because something somewhere is using it but we aren't going to tell you what or where" message. I finally resorted to downloading Unlocker, something I haven't used since my old Win95 PC, so I could move the damned things. (And it's random files - seriously, I guarantee you, NOTHING is using the xgame_wallpapers.zip file.)

After I get done with GOG, I'll swoop back through Humble/Groupees/Desura/IGS/whatever other random sites and snag the rest of my DRM-free stuff. According to Completionator, I have 1200 games across various services, but minus duplicates, about 940, and 427 of them are on GOG, so... not counting Steam, I'm pretty sure I only have a handful of other things to actually worry about.

I haven't been feeling really ill, although my husband has, but I've had a sort of lingering malaise. I think part of it's been allergies, since I have them year-round but they're worse in spring and fall, and this is a new area. The rest of the negative feelings are pretty directly due to a particular issue with our living situation, which I've complained at you about before. ;) No real improvement, but some tentative plans and hopes for the future, which makes things more bearable.

And yes, exactly. I quit using CD-ROMs years ago because I'm too prone to randomly losing the damned things, plus cats (explanation enough, really). I think I still have some random ones with movies or somesuch around, and I really hope my one huge CD-book-case full of Doctor Who episodes turns up whenever we unpack, but other than that, I've gone to external drives for storage/backup. Of course, I only have two at the moment and desperately need another one, but that will be waiting for those future plans. So far, I've come across Batman (1966), Green Hornet, the Granada Sherlock Holmes series, the Beastmaster tv show (so terribly it's fantastic), some cartoons (Gobots for the husband, Conan for me - hoping to find my Thundarr set somewhere), Max Headroom, and Nightmare Cafe. Good stuff. And now that some of those have officially been released on DVD/Blu-ray, I'm looking forward to getting official sets with all the extra goodies and remastering. :)

Hmm...I'm getting there too. Probably buy me some more when i'm at university :)

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Good morning, everybody !!
**Warm hugs, polite waves and hot coffee**
I hope you all had a lovely weekend... and are well rested, to start this new week with full energy !! :-)

Completely understandable. This computer has the largest hard drive of any I've owned. Without that space, there's no way I'd have everything on it like I do now. Will be getting an external when I can to take some of the strain off.

Yeah, the downloader's nice when it isn't freezing or hanging frequently like it does with my setup. Kinda shoots the leave something to download overnight idea in the head since it'll almost always freeze up before completion.
Sounds like you have your own variety of problems with it, ones much more annoying than what I have to deal with.

Sheesh, you only have 1,200 games? I'm surprised you haven't cleared them all already. -laughs-

Allergies...the penalty for making it through winter. It'd help if the pills for it did something besides knock a person silly. Figuring that if I was high as a kite, the whole inability to breathe through my nose problem wouldn't really be something to complain about.

I'll keep the fingers on my other hand crossed that the problem you're referring to reaches a satisfying conclusion. Preferably one involving a drunk driver and a burning diesel tanker.
My typing might go to shit, but the results would be more than worth the inconvenience. =)

When I was far more acquisition-oriented than I am now, I had a large variety of items.
Time, chance and stupidity conspired to pare that down to what I have left.
Must say, you have an interesting array of items. Makes me think that I need to expand my selections more.


Good morning. =) -passes over the extra-large mug of coffee-

The weekend was fine here. Nothing exciting, but that's okay.
I'll probably greet the new week the same way I always do - with two middle fingers and a muttered string of vulgarities - but that's normal for me.
As for energy....well, that's why the gods invented caffeine. ;)

1200 games counting duplicates across services (yay, bundles) and Steam games. Since I really don't care about backing up Steam games atm (maybe when I have more space, I'll look at which ones it's actually possible with), once I get through GOG, I should be almost done.

I'm lucky enough that the daily pills the doctor recommended years ago for my allergies (generic Zyrtec, basically) are a) cheap and b) mostly effective without screwing with my head. I just need to remember to take them, which is the hard part.

Funny, your solution to that issue sounds a lot like the ones my husband and I were discussing earlier today. :)

We've lost a lot of stuff over the years due to some moves gone badly, but we're both very collector-oriented and I love movies and similar, so DVDs, VHS tapes, and Blu-rays are a large part of what we've still got. Between the two of us, we have a damned weird set of things, but even by myself, my taste (in everything from movies to music to books) can charitably be called "eclectic." I love SF and fantasy, but Sherlock Holmes is near and dear to my heart, and I grew up playing with Transformers even though I still own all of my old My Little Ponies. The husband got me hooked on Hong Kong action flicks and Godzilla movies, and I returned the favor with things like comic books and Doctor Who. If you like cartoons, btw, I really do recommend Thundarr the Barbarian, because it's a blast. Post-apocalyptic earth (complete with broken moon hanging in the sky), radiation meets magic, and "Ookla the Mok," or "we couldn't afford the Star Wars license but it's 1980 and we have to have Chewbacca." Seriously fun stuff. Nightmare Cafe and Max Headroom are my two long-standing favorite obscure cult classic tv shows that I have waited for years to come out on DVD; since Max finally made it, maybe there's some hope for the Cafe yet. (Robert Englund and Matt Frewer - two amazing, seriously underrated actors!)

Good morning, everyone!

How are you all doing today?


Good morning, Owl!

*Lots of big hugs to make up for less hugs over the weekend*

How are you today? I brought you a very big cup of coffee to help you start your day. :-)

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A good morning for you too :) *big hug*
Doing very good here, how are you?

Hey everyone, are you doing well? I'm currently babysitting two dogs and I'm trying to get some translation work done in between, but the dogs are demanding so much attention it's not really working out just yet.