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[delga]

I'm on hold. I'm on hold. I'm on hold. I'm in some hellish hold world of holding. (Josh Lyman, The West Wing)

SEE ABOVE. Also: they have the worst 'hold' music ever. It's like some sort of late80s, early90s daytime soap synth. SO BAD. (The person I was talking to turned out to be a woman.) Anyway, the chkdsk didn't work last night and then, when I tried to give her the error code, my laptop decided to get arsey (thank you, Nortons, for your compulsive need to run Live Update every time I need to do something important) so that took forever.

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OK, I'm back now. There's something wrong with the video drivers, apparently, so the only option is to reinstall XP. So. That's what I'm doing. This is good, actually, because I've been meaning to clean the home PC for years now, and this way we're only getting the essentials back. All the word documents were saved earlier in the week, so no-one is losing vital information. Formatting the drive is going to take about 45 minutes so I'm going to watch more Torchwood, which is what I was doing whilst I was waiting for that woman to call.

After explorer crashed on my laptop, I was further thwarted in my attempts at productivity when (a) I didn't have the CD in the drive the first time I tried to access it, and (b) the second time, the keyboard decided to freeze. Niiice. Third time it worked. That poor woman was waiting whilst I faffed around. She was calling from India so it's at least 1am over there. Crikey.

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Speaking of Torchwood, the reason I'm so behind is because it took me forever to get through A Day in the Death of which I found to be deathly boring. Something Borrowed was so-so until the second-half where it picked up considerably (I thought Gwen was smashing in the latter half) and now I'm half-through From Out of the Rain which is fucking creepy. If I'm done in time, I should be able to watch the finale tonight, huzz.

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The Dad was watching the 10pm news last night. Can;t have been much going on in the world because the closing story was five minutes about Naomi Campbell. Anyway, I managed to watch the last twenty minutes of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It was The Demon Hand which remains my favourite episode of the season after Dungeons and Dragons. Everything about that episode works for me from the direction to the performances. Cameron walking away still gives me the shivers, and the closing scene - though it had different resonance on the re-watch - was still chilling. Fuck me, I love this show.

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Substance? What is this thing you speak of?

Comments

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I am failing to keep track of SCC episode titles, but Bubbles from The Wire was in last week's Virgin1 episode. Surprised me, anyhow.

Leading on from that, you've watched The Wire series 1 and 2, right? I have just bought 3 and 4 but won't get round to watching them for at least 3 months, quite probably longer - I wondered if you wanted to borrow them? Save them sitting round gathering dust at mine.

(as you have the power of the internet, you may have already seen them, but I don't remember seeing you post about them)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

I know! I was a little gobsmacked when I saw him. Oh, Bubbles.

Aw, that's such a lovely offer! I have season 3 collecting dust right now but I may reconsider in about a month. If that's okay?

In related news: I didn't know you watched The Wire! EXCELLENT.

[hestia8.livejournal.com]

It took me a moment to twig - he's so, well, *Bubbles* that I had to go 'But - he's - why is he a policeman?'

Yeah, no problem. Let me know :) (I haven't even got to the first episode of NCIS yet, and I bought s1 in January...)

I've seen 1 & 2 (all completely the fault of Idris Elba and my enduring Ultraviolet obsession), and oh GOD series 2. Loved it so much. There is no fandom whatsoever, though.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

*hugs you just for quoting Josh Lyman* =)