Aug. 28th, 2004

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Last night we actually had a real RPG session again, starting the GURPS game for real this time. We fought the fearsome bees, and bears, losing one NPC in the process. Stupid bears.

Fighting wildlife makes me think 'Ultima', especially fighting puny wildlife (eg, bees) that nearly kills several members of the party.

Of course, we didn't get started until 8 or 9pm (Lazar said 8, I said 9, no one really remembered) because Murdock was late (he has to work later on Fridays for the forseeable future) and cooking dinner took a long time. Dinner was actually the limiting factor.

Sandy spent the whole time we were playing the game disassembling Lego Mindstom things and putting them back in the box, sorted, so that Snowwy could borrow/take them. I guess I shouldn't be surprised it took that long... and Sandy is kind of obsessive about things like that, so I shouldn't be surprised she took the time to do it. I think I would have just tossed the things in the box and hoped they were all there and fit, personally. }:P

When she was finally done neatly sorting everything back into place, she handed the box to Snowwy, who held it by the sides instead of the bottom, and it dropped to the ground and scattered legos everywhere. D'oh!

but, right, the game )
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It looks like SP2 *did* fuck up my laptop -- the firewire port doesn't work anymore. The device manager says all the drivers are up to date (and are MS standard, and haven't changed since 2001), but when I plug in the I-Pod to try to synchronize it it doesn't recognize that anything's been plugged in, so the port's effectively useless -- there's no way to manually say 'detect if something is plugged in to the firewire port'. Not that that would necessarily work in any case.

So now I have to either give up on using my Ipod, or suffer through some product support scenario wasting hours of my time, assuming that they'd even be able to help, which I seriously doubt. I've never seen product support actually fix a problem.

Fuck.

EDIT: Or I could uninstall and reinstall the drivers ten times with no effect, then try wiggling the connector in the port and have it finally work. So it's faulty hardware, not software. Is that good or bad?

I suppose it's good if wiggling it keeps working. }:/ And bad if I have to get the thing fixed. Since it's not under warrantee anymore.

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