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Yup yup! :yes:
Aw, damn... I think that the disc drive on my laptop is going out... :cry: |
Aww, that sucks. >.< I need to get blank discs to burn some of the anime I've been downloading.. I don't have too much memory on this thing.
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If the disc drive goes out, I'll either need to get a new laptop sooner than I planned on, or I'll have to try to find an external disc drive. And I'm not sure how much those cost, but I'll bet they aren't all that cheap... I already tried to check on a new internal disc drive, but I was told that you can't replace internal disc drives on laptops... :XP
Either that, or you could just get an external hard drive. That's what I did. You can get a 320gig hard drive for around $100 down here in the States. Not sure how much it would cost you up there, but I wouldn't think that it'd be too much more expensive. |
The external disc drive I got a little while back was only about $80 though there were quite a lot of more expensive ones as well but it was cheaper than an internal one. :XD Even without needing to get someone to install it because I would have done it myself with the PC I had. xD My bro has the PC now, but he'd never taken the disc drive which is much better than the internal one lol.
Hm. True I'd never thought of that.. xD |
Well, if you still have that external drive, you ought to be able to use it with your Mac. All you'd have to do is re-format the external drive for the Mac and you should be set to go. :yes: Of course, any info that's currently on the external drive would be deleted when you re-formatted it, but if it was originally formatted for a PC, you wouldn't be able to get that info off of it using your Mac anyway.
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-pokes- CD disc drive sweetie is what my first part of the post talked about. :P Responding to you. External ones aren't too expensive if you look close to $100 as cheapest as being reasonable price. xD
I don't have an external hard drive. ^^; |
*re-reads* Oops, my bad. I miss-read your post. :P
*listens to the sounds of high winds and rain hitting against the window* Hmm... I might have to plug the space heater in tonight. Sounds like it's going to be a cold one... :XP |
Thought so. :D :hug:
Better keep warm then, for sure. :) |
Yeah, but this is April now. All the cold crap is supposed to be gone by now... *sigh*
By the way, sorry about the delayed responses. I'm trying to force my disc drive to work. :P |
Hehe, right. For you sure. xD
It's still considered winter here, even if the spring equinox come and passed. xD We had a snow storm only four days ago in our actual Spring Break. :XP |
Jeez, that would suck... if I still got spring breaks. :XP
I've never really been one for winter. Having winter weather as long as you do, well, all I could say is that I doubt I'd ever want to crawl out from under the covers during the winter. I'd just hibernate or something like that :XD |
Turn into a bear would you?
Sorry for late response, I was looking for a song. |
:XD Yeah, something like that :P
It's ok. I was pretty tired and ended up going to bed that night anyway. And Aryah and I went to see Fast and Furious last night. :yes: |
Hehe. One gets used to the weather after a while. Even if I'd like the snow to be gone it's slowly becoming nicer.
It's my mom's week off and I wish there was something to do.. We still just do the same thing day in and day out. It's frustrating to feel like I have no life.. |
It could always be worse. I mean, I go to work and I don't come home for anywhere between 2 and 4 weeks at a time. So I feel at times that work is basically my life... :XP
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Perhaps you're right. But then at least it's something to do each day, even if it's only driving.. you're still seeing countryside and stuff. Things I've not seen, but then I'm up here. :XP
All I do it seems is sit around at a computer, there's nothing better to do and I feel obligated to keep looking in on Mene when I don't feel like even coming close to it on most days. Even when I'm not on Mene I feel horrible for not doing so and put off anything else I can do on the net like continuing the fanfic I'd started that people are asking for more on yet I spend that time doing nothing on Mene and feeling bored out of my mind. I'd rather be doing something in the real world now that Mene is no longer a seeming escape from reality but has become my reality. Even when mom's on break and I've not work we don't do anything fun. It's frustrating.. but yet there's nothing to do in this city. I've even put off buying tickets to the Ai-Kon because my dad has guilt tripped me on my birthday no less about the fact I want to do something that actually interests me rather than visiting him and being on edge around him. It's bloody frustrating.. and he wonders why I never want to talk to him on the phone because all he does is guilt trip me and then he called me a liar about how I don't want to go to college and that I probably didn't even apply. I did. I have to wait until I'm accepted to know whether I'm attending, but of course he doesn't bother to try understand it's the waiting game but decides I shouldn't wait and harass them.. I can't force them to accept me no matter how much I'd like to and so he decides I'm lying instead. :roll: Tell me.. why do I want to go see him again? Let alone the entire summer which means I would have to give up my job? It might not be much of one, but I'd rather not quit for that prick, it's money that I need to take care of my animals. Bah.. Sorry for the rant.. I guess I've been a bit depressed as of late.. |
I'm sorry, I didn't know that you had things like that going on in your life. I'm also sorry to hear that your father seems to be an insensitive person who doesn't want to understand what is going on with your life or going on around you. The guilt trips are a low blow, I know. I had to deal with those time and time again with my ex-wife (and I still deal with them from her every once and again). It sucks that you have to put things that you want to do (or need to do) on hold because of him harassing you into doing something that you don't want to do. At least it seems that he still wants to be a part of your life, though, even if he's going about it all wrong.
As for the rant, don't worry about it. Everybody's allowed to blow off some steam once in a while. I know that I've ranted to you before, and I want you to be able to rant to me as well. That's what friends are for, right? :hug: :heart: |
It's like I can't make plans because once he has it set in his mind that he wants to see me and I state I had made plans it's all "Oh so those things are more important than me" attitude. Not only the Ai-Kon, but I promised a coworker to take her to the Icelandic Festival on August 3rd because she'd never been and she wanted to go and didn't want to bus it because there's no buses going back until the next day. I go there each year to visit family there and because it's a fun thing to do.
I put off Ai-kon the year before last for him, granted, I'd wanted to because I was going to see a rainforest and be someplace new. Last year I'd forgotten about it until it was too late and I would really like to go this year and it's cheap to buy the tickets now at $34 rather than $40 once July gets around. Although I thought it was more like $28 for April when I last checked and $35 for June, but they altered their site and combined April & June together. Even when I suggested going for a couple weeks in the beginning of July as a compromise it was like it didn't matter. It's not even as if I'm some kid anymore. I'm 20 for gods sake. Let me try to have a life when I have the option to do so. -grumbles- |
Mmm. I wish I could say that I understood everything that you were going through with this situation, but I was one of the lucky kids whose parents got along well together (and still do get along). I've never been through the hassle and drama of my parents getting divorced. Instead, I was the one that went through the divorce myself. :sweat:
It sounds like your father doesn't take into consideration the things that you would like to do / need to do, though. I think that that's rather poor taste on his part. |
My parents had never been married. :sweat: They'd been on an off since I was too young to remember and then after bro was born it seemed off for good. So it was a matter of back and forth all my life as Dad went from girlfriend to girlfriend. :roll: Nothing new. I wish he'd stop looking at himself as all high and mighty because he'd done similar things when he was my age.. hell he was still in highschool when my mom met him (and he was of age) don't even think he himself went to college. So it's like bleh...
I'd enjoy the ability to do what I want without having to look for his permission to make the plans. Unless he plans to pay me so I can keep supporting my animals while I'm with him (let alone that the ferrets won't let my mom open the cage without biting her so them getting fed would be a hard part.) then fine.. he better give me the money up front to be sure I have enough left for them. A bag of cat food alone is $50 and the two bags of ferret food (I mix) is $20 a piece and the 4lbs bag isn't enough for a couple of weeks. I normally special order online which makes the one bag of food $50 alone with shipping and handling. |
Ahh, I see. :sweat: Well, maybe he just wants to make sure that you don't make the same mistakes that he did, even if he is going about it all wrong. That doesn't make up for the way that he's treating you, though. I don't know your father, so I don't really have any room to talk, I guess. But, I believe that he should really try to go about trying to spend time with you and find out about the college a different way.
:shock: Dang, that's a lot of money for food. And how long does that much food last? |
-sighs- Yeah, the way he treats me if he doesn't talk to me for a while it'd still be too soon. :roll: I'd actually rather have no contact with him at all. I hate hypocrites and he's the biggest one I've come across. Of course... my first job had a hypocrite as my boss and I gave it up really fast. Wish it'd be just as easy. >.> Whenever we're together face to face it's a guarantee that we'd at least get into one fight yelling at eachother.. >.> Hell on my birthday he'd hung up on me when I'd yelled at him because he'd called me a liar.
The 8lbs bag lasts a couple of weeks without mixing, with mixing I presume it'd be more. I just started mixing so I've yet to know for certain. xD As for the cat bag it's a 50lbs bag and can last about a month. -nods- Seems to be longer now because he's eating less. :? |
Yeah, unfortunately there's hypocrites all over the place. There's not really much anybody can do about that. As for your father, he doesn't really sound like the father type. I wish that there was something that I could say or do that would make it all better, but I can't think of anything. :sweat:
Ahh, so you should have enough food for all your pets for about a month if you buy all those bags at the same time? Well, that's not as bad as it sounded at first, then. And, sorry about all the delayed responses. I was getting distracted taking care of some last-minute stuff before everybody went to bed. :P |
Oh it's fine didn't seem delayed at all for the simple fact I was going through some forums and had to remind myself to keep checking back. :lol:
But yeah, would have enough for a month or so if bought at the same time thankfully. It's not every couple of weeks. I would have no money if it was like that. o.O Nevermind.. once I get money back from taxes I'm going to be buying them a new cage.. I hate the one they have now. >.< That'll cost me about $210 with taxes and it'd be a smaller cage. |
Ahh, ok. As long as I wasn't making you keep checking back and wondering if I disappeared off the face of the internet or anything like that. :lol:
Yeah, it's funny how quickly money disappears, isn't it? I ended up spending about $1,600 these past few days. :sweat: And only $300 of it was on things that I actually wanted to get. :XP |
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