Spinning on that dizzy edge

I made two vids for Festivids!

Creator (Eureka, Jo Lupo)

What's Your Naked (What's Your Number, Ally/Colin)

They were both really well received, especially by the intended recipients, so I'm happy about that. gwyn guessed correctly that I had made the WYN vid for her, so I owe her a prize. You want icons with that? ;)

I still want to go back and respond to all the comments, which sets up a weird pressure in my head to find umpteen different ways of saying "thank you". Oh, fangirl problems...

I finally got a new laptop to replace my current workhouse with the broken hinge. The new one has Windows 8.1, UGH. I forget each time how much I hate setting up machines to have all the correct bells and whistles, and deleting all the unwanted crap. (McAfee can go suck it with their horrible protection and whiny "don't remove meeeeeee!" warnings.) Having this new awful OS on top of that just feels me with dread. Once I'm done, though, it will be zippy fast, and I can gift the Emperor with my old one (set up in the basement with a monitor, so he won't destroy it with the wonky hinge).

January blurred into February, and now February is almost done, too. As much as I love snow, I'm good now, so spring can arrive any time. Plus, March means my birthday and a visit to kass! Note to self: start planning media to bring for the trip for potential recruitment.

Speaking of new fandoms, I have fallen hard for "Arrow". I blazed through most of seasons 1 and 2 last weekend. I knew it was full of fabulous ladies, but no one told me just HOW full it was! Ladies everywhere! Duplicitous DAs and CIAs and CEOs, a whole rainbow of HBsIC. I was spoiled for a lot of it, thanks to Tumblr GIFs and such, but I'm still enjoying small unforeseen twists. However, I am getting tired of the Identity Angst and SECRETS EVERYWHERE. Hasn't that shit bitten them in the ass enough already?

Speaking of fabulous ladies, "Agent Carter" has ended, alas; I'm trying to manage my expectations so I won't be utterly crushed if it doesn't get renewed. We had a sublime run of it, and the DVDs can't come soon enough. I'm really hoping that "Agents of SHIELD" can build on some of that energy and keep me excited for Marvel on TV.

In other news, "Glee"'s final season is filling me with complicated (and CAPSLOCKy) feelings. What a long, strange trip it's been.

What all are you watching?

When I related the earlier story of my economic disagreement with my co-worker to the family at dinner time, the Emperor in his infinite wisdom posited that people should be paid more money so they can spend more money. When even a six-year-old understands that trickle-down systems don't work... *sigh*

Now that the Vancouver con has come and gone, I'm turning my eyes and fannish attention to the upcoming Chicago one in August. Specifically, making a vid to hopefully win me another gift certificate. (Yes, it's a gross application of a wonderful artform, but Mama wants an SGA windbreaker without having to give those razzer-frazzers any money for it.) I went to my trusty list of vid ideas, pared it down to Stargate-themed ones, and further down to ones that I thought might be viable winners (no meta presentations on unexamined colonialism and/or warmongering as entertainment, or starring people who won't be there, and so on).

I still have 45 items on the list. Eep!

I think the closest I will come to making a decision is finally buying a vidding laptop over the weekend. Wish me luck!

Have I mentioned that it's been a seesaw kind of week so far?

Monday, the husband called me to say that his car wouldn't start in the parking lot. This was an improvement on the "dying on the way to pick up the Emperor", but not quite as ideal as the "not starting in the garage". The last time it went in (about 3 weeks ago, which was the third time in as many months), the mechanic crawled around but couldn't find anything wrong. For all we know, he wriggled the right wires or something because it started back up just fine. He didn't charge us anything, so all we were out was the towing fee. We're hoping we can get an actual diagnosis this time, because paying to have it towed in once or twice a month is getting expensive.

But then! I got an email from Amazon yesterday that I'd been selected to be eligible for Round Four of the Customer's Vote dealio. I just had to be ready to click BUY! at 8:30 AM today. I got up early, and even with dropping off both the Emperor and the husband, got to work ahead of schedule. The magic moment rolled around, and a click and several minutes of waiting later, I scored an ASUS Eee PC 900 8.9-Inch Netbook for $129!

DUDE! The specs are just about perfect for my mobile needs: Intel Mobile Processor, 1 GB RAM, 12 GB Solid State Drive, XP Home, Wi-Fi connectivity (802.11b/g), multiple USB ports, a VGA output for connecting to a monitor...About all it's missing is a DVD player, and I can certainly get one of those separately.

With this in hand, I can totally build my own tower (or rather, wave imperiously at my husband and have him build me one) for much cheaper than an all-encompassing laptop and to exacting specs for vidding and coding purposes.

*fingers crossed* that the car solution comes together just as neatly.

ETA: WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Amazon reports that it just shipped, and I could get it as early as tomorrow. Here's hoping UPS doesn't give me the no-signature runaround.