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Technical Difficulties

A 47-post collection

Wednesday, Unfuckening in Progress

I went and fetched Adorable before I even had my coffee this morrow. As I write, she's currently trying to unriddle the Wacom screen tablet. Task one of four:

  1. Unriddle the Wacom
  2. Whack OBS so the cam behaves its-fucking-self when I'm streaming
  3. Get Zrythm to play some GD sound
  4. Attach basket and rack to Chaos' bike

And because only one of us can fart around on my compy at a time, I'm doing my offerings from the Lappy. Yay.

I shall do what I can and catch up with the remainder tomorrow, assuming that all goes well with the unfucking.

In other news -

Achievement Unlocked: Rejected!

Yes, folks. This nerd has received their very first rejection letter. Hooray. It's better than being ghosted, honestly. Ghosted gives no information. Even a form letter ["not a good fit"] is better than absolute nothingness. Now I can try them on something else.

I can plausibly fling a different book at them while I'm waiting for the first mob to fully ghost me on Adapting... and then flick Adapting at them.

Which means I really need to get a wriggle on with those 200-word blurbs.

Tomorrow. All being well, I can commence that nonsense tomorrow.

Onwards with today's offerings.

Tuesday, Technical Nonsense Ahoy

I have parcels to pick up, Adorable to fetch, and an interesting day ahead because unriddling whatever the fuck is going on with my software and hardware.

Adorable has tradies coming, so juggling the minutes promises to be some degree of fun.

I'm going to finish this blog entry, don some clothings, and then launch to get the stuff and then get Adorable.

Offerings when and if I can manage to do them. Maybe even including Patreon.

Update:

The Tradies turned into

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Monday, Backup Reads and Unfucking PLNs

The writing group didn't have much to discuss this week. I am wrangling a technofix sesh with Adorable, and given my messed up tech situation, I'm hoping I can bring her up to me rather than hauling my tech down to her.

Today, I shall attempt to focus on my offerings and then attempt to gain a logical bedtime.

Attempt.

And I shall see what the PLN is for tomorrow. Depending entirely on what Adorable opts for. I have all day for

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Monday, Back in Business!

I have my compy back at last and now I can focus on the offerings. The backup reads went well and I got props for a "female gaze" moment in one of the reserve stories I had for the event.

Now that the compy is back in place, I have to defend my keyboard from the cats. Because removal and restoration stirred up my desk debris.

This is only slowing me down. I'll be getting on to the offerings shortly. Of the

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Sunday, Plans Gang Aft Agley

I was going to take a leisurely morning and tune into AMothintheArchive's story-reading stream, do my wrist stretchies, and see if I could actually unriddle the workings of Zhrythm at last.

Then I tried to start my main compy and got an embuggerance.

So my plans to have an early night and run a game are shattered. My plans to make my offerings and tool around with things are also in shards. Now I have to get dressed, go place, and do

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Monday, Tropical Storm Troubles

We did not actually need the tape and the paper after all. Best to be prepared than be embarrassed. If you need butcher's paper at all anywhere near the wilds of Burpengary, I'm your bean.

I literally have kilos of the stuff.

The supply will eventually dwindle, but the horrifying part is - I know where to get more. Cue evil laugh.

Beloved and Adorable have power issues and internet troubles, but if that's all they have to deal with, they're OK.

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Sunday, Outages, Rain, and Wind

Intermittent power availability, strong winds, heavy rains. Typical of a once-cyclone, now-tropical-storm.

We still can't go out for supplies because hazardous weather.

Adorable, Beloved, and their fam are about to get flooded thanks to the rain. Now that communication's restored between MeMum and I, the worry has transferred to them.

At least we can send messages to each other.

The good news is that they have plns. The worrying news is that they're cool with a lot more things than I am.

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Friday, Valentine's Day

I'm starting to wonder about the person I found to help me with market research. Everything that should be a minor tweaks turns out to be a whole new video. There's flaws that should be easily detected, errors allowed to pass. I'm starting to worry this person is using AI to put out low effort somethings.

I don't want to accuse, but I'm also thinking of transcribing the ad copy from the one that needed really minor tweaks and doing it over

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Wednesday, Unfucking Journey

I currently can't upload images from my compy without borking my entire internet connection, my browser, or my compy. Apparently, it's a Firefox bug or its add-ons.

In the meantime, I'll be working on my image posts on CachyBrowser.

I have quite a few appointments upcoming, this week, and PLNs to go shopping today and get some supplies. For which I need to consult the rest of the fam.

It's been a thorough TRIAL trying to unriddle my technical issues that have

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Wednesday, Technical Difficulties and So On

The internet is fixed!

I have my first physio happening in an hour. In half an hour, I take off to meet that appointment.

I need to remember to ask about cooling my heel on the evening stretchies cycle. And show off my new knee brace.

Fingers crossed, I get to post today's story before I launch.

After I get back, I'll work on the rant for this week. I have some worries about the state of affairs on the interwebs.

Nyoom.

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Thursday, Mor Shopping PLNs

We need paper towels. I need coffee. I have further PLNs to make myself some Ginger Con Carne in an effort to train up my baby tongue. I'm sick of being vulnerable to capsaicin.

That's the non-standard ideas in mind for today.

I checked on the feedback from the GameMaker community, nothing. I looked for FUSE in the normal places. Nothing. Looks like I'm going to have to carefully read the instructions in the error and then go poke around and attempt

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Sunday, Embuggerances and Attempts Made

So my internet dips out after two hours of computer use and the only way to get it back is to reboot the tower. You can imagine how much of a pain in the arse this is.

I'm working with my lovelies to try and unriddle this nonsense on a permanent basis. Two hours at a time is better than nothing, but having the entire 24 would be much better.

Doing the best I can with the little I've got.

Offerings as

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Saturday, Called For Rain

It's wet as heck out in our destination, Kedron is flooded, and the great Brisbane River is rising.

...which may or may not mean a soaked and waterlogged Crimbo at a later date.

Yay.

Not.

So now I'm attempting to focus on my offerings du jour whilst also getting a head start on the bread I needed to make this weekend anyway.

And because it's raining, I have no idea if the game I'm planning to do early tomorrow is going to

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Friday, Wet Weather

It looks like the rain has set in. Dangit. I was really trying to be well enough to do parkrun this time around.

I have been in the wars. Achey breaky feet, hot and cold running rhinovirii, and the Sneezin' and Wheezin' Season that NEVER FIRKIN ENDS!

I still got the sniffoos, but I'm otherwise functioning as human for the meanwhile. So far, so good.

Except Mayhem now has the Lurgi. Or at least, has succumbed to it. Poor chook. Soup and

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Friday, Rain Interference "Fun"

It's raining. Which means my internet access is shit. Which means that anything I do online will be slower than molasses.

JUST in time for me to try learning how to make buttons in GameMaker. Yay.

All the running back and forth, the missed connections and other nonsense has me very frazzled and stressed and needing intimate haptic feedback. Alas, the rest of the QPP is far, far away and out of my range for firkin weeks on end.

Sigh.

I feel

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