Below are the most recent 11 friends' journal entries.

Monday, July 13th, 2009
tevriel	9:05p	Today's photos I'm going to start trying to remember to link the images to their gallery pages, for those who want to see the camera shot information. ( Perth, across the river, from Matilda Bay foreshore, and the Irwin Street Building. ) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 12th, 2009
tevriel	8:53p	It's a picture of a person what Today's photo: my good friend Dean, cosplaying as Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear, wielding my guitar. ( The guitar is character-appropriate, I promise. ) No content today, I am very, very ill. Current Music: A Bit of Fry and Laurie, 4x03 (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
tevriel	9:31p	Asking the Internet: Computer Performance Issues So, my laptop is an Asus M50v. Lately it's seemed like it's been running rather hot, which is of moderate concern to me. Performance has seemed vaguely slow here and there but I'm not sure. Where there seems to be a problem: Left 4 Dead (just installed tonight) runs like a cow. That's been shot. It shouldn't. It's an Intel Core Duo processor (~2.5GHz I think) with Nvidia 9600M GS graphics card. Computer has 4GB of RAM. Anyone have any idea what's going wrong, here? (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
tevriel	3:27p	zzzzzzz So, I gave a guitar to an eight-year-old today, and she loved it, which is pleasing. She likes the classical guitar better than she liked my electric guitar when she saw me playing it, even though she thought the amp effects were kind of awesome. Which is good, because a classical guitar is what she has, and also, I'm fond of her, but I am not going to let an excitable eight-year-old who picked up a guitar for the first time today play my genuine Gibson Les Paul Studio, because seriously. Still feeling rather unwell. I slept terribly last night, because lying down made my lungs sad and my throat hurt and felt all swollen and it was all pretty miserable. I feel better now than I did last night but I intend to let my body keep recovering rather than pushing it, so I'm going to try and sleep and rest as much as I can. I'm skipping episode 12 of Lie To Me because episode synopsis says it will be Very Bad for my mental health. I realised this immediately but found it strangely difficult to follow through with a plan of just skipping it. Required reinforcement from Chas (and I think, a little, from Dean, though I'd mostly decided when I mentioned it to her) to be able to make myself just go straight to episode 13. Which is looking pretty awesome. Right now I'm lying in bed watching it, but I think - if only because my lower back is getting grumpy about too much time in bed - I might later go downstairs, set up at the table, and start writing detailed recaps/meta of all the non-triggery-to-me episodes, because this show is seriously awesome and I don't feel well enough to write fiction right now. (Comment on this)
tevriel	2:10p	Today's Photo: Melbourne Hotel, Perth Taken yesterday. ( Image cut. ) (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
tevriel	2:15p	Why I don't buy big-ticket items online... So, my otherwise-totally-awesome Gibson Les Paul Studio has one irritating problem: the third (G) string keeps going out of tune. Wildly so. I suspect this may mean the bridge needs adjusting... which I don't really know how to do. Solution: Call the shop where I bought it. Ask them about it. Get diagnosis confirmed... and a free offer of: "Bring it in, we can fix that for you." Because, after all: "You bought it here, and we want you to be happy with it..." Online retailers have their virtues, but those virtues really don't include being able to get them to fix minor problems quickly and easily, without having to ship the thing places. Had I bought my guitar online I'd likely be better served trying to fix this myself. Which I don't want to do - I don't really know what I'm doing, my guitar is new and expensive and already beloved, I fear damaging it. Besides, I feel like I'm coming down with a cold. So I shall pack up my Gibson and wander into town. (Might pack my camera, too, maybe grab some photos in town if it seems convenient. Or if the US Navy sailors are about again - they were all over town on Thursday. I assume a ship's in at Freo.) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
tevriel	12:37p	Advisory Culling friends list to readability. Mostly dropping feeds and people who are crossposting to Dreamwidth, but am also removing a few people I haven't interacted with in a long time, etc. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
tevriel	1:47p	Printers, op shops, recycling So, I went to Officeworks today, to buy printers and an external hard drive. I ended up buying a more expensive inkjet printer than I intended to get, but I don't actually mind, particularly; this one is awesome, with all the features I want, and my father has one from the same line that has had very heavy use for about six years, so I expect it to last me pretty well. While I was there I also bought photo print sticker papers, because I have several items I wish to decorate with stickers, and have been unable to do so due to inability to find appropriate stickers. Now I can make my own, and shall do so, and my things will be decorated forthwith. (I also bought some more rechargable AA batteries, because I've been intending to do so.) I think I've finally cleared off my backlog of Things To Buy from the last two years of non-money-having. (Except for clothes, but I hate clothes shopping and will continue to put that off as long as I possibly can.) Though the new external hard drive was something that was just upcoming, because my last one is only now at the point of being almost full. (In terms of combined values for convenience, cost effectiveness, and practicality of storage, external hard drives are my best data storage option.) On the way back from returning the trolley, I stopped by the Save the Children charity shop, where I bought a couple of shirts to cut up for various purposes, a Bible printed in 1958 (I like old things, I wanted a Bible, it was $2), and an absolutely beautiful soft brown leather belt. (Also $2.) I plan to attempt to turn the belt into a more comfortable camera strap. Failing that, I'll find some other use for it - there was no way I wasn't buying a beautiful leather belt I loved on sight when it was two Australian dollars. Op shops are in one way dangerous, because I'm way more likely to buy things just because I like them if they're invariably VERY VERY CHEAP, and in another way totally not, because even when I buy a bunch of stuff just because it's cool, it never costs me more than five bucks total, and the money is for charity anyway. Oh, and I also bought a Ricoh YF-20 N 35mm (film) camera for $2, mostly because I wanted the bag it was in to use for my digital compact. (Which has no bag, and I have a preference for keeping my cameras wrapped in something.) The camera itself will probably be put in my storage box of Miscellaneous Techish Bits until I turn it into a taser or something. The recycling part: old, unwanted, ugly shirts into useful items, and things like camera bags for now-worthless cameras into usable things. Now, though, I need to dig the batteries out of this camera before I toss it into storage. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
tevriel	10:43p	Today's Photo: JayJay This is my psychologist's dog. ( He's actually kind of adorable. ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
tevriel	1:34p	PS Am picking up reading LJ again, but since I haven't read it in about two months, am not even going to TRY to catch up. If there's something important I've missed, tell me, or it'll work out in some other fashion, I imagine. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
tevriel	12:11p	Today's Photo: The First Posted Taken With My DSLR Things I approve of: Adobe's updater. First, it doesn't get all grabby about focus when it wants my input. A bubble pops up from the system tray that says, all politely, "Adobe Updater needs your attention." Awww. Second, when it's in the middle of updating, and I decide to run Photoshop, it doesn't make a fuss, just tells me that the Photoshop update couldn't install, would I like it to try again? Yes, yes I would. Photoshop still gives me a hive in a range of ways, but I'll give it points for that. So, because it's new and shiny, during a patch of okayish weather, I popped outside with my DSLR. Took some random photos, took somewhat purposeful photos of our broken TV antenna, and then took Today's Photo in the back garden. It's not much of a garden, but it did come with this: Digital cameras are awesome. I have already taken more shots with my DSLR than with my film SLRs that I've had for most of a decade, because OH HEY I don't have to pay for film and processing thereof. I can has CAMERA FUN. (2 Comments |Comment on this)