don't be dull, be fannish

I live in Central Europe and there's a storm front raging outside, the Germans gave it the name Xaver. I hate storms. I hate strong winds. I hate pouring rain. I'll have to use earplugs tonight again or I won't sleep at all. Luckily my doctor gave me pills to keep my heart-rate down, perfect for an occasion like this.

And I used another thing to calm down: Ed Sheeran's wonderful song "I See Fire", The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug's theme song. It's beautiful and haunting, and I have had it on repeat for hours now. Truly wonderful. Listen to it with headphones on!

"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Ed Sheeran "I See Fire" [HD]" (Watch on YouTube)

( The lyrics are also amazing... )

My computer is all set up. It's a cute little Compaq, a tiny little thing compared to what I had before, it's like half the size of my old comp. Windows 7 will take a bit to get used to, though. I miss my old Outlook Express, it was much cleaner and easier to use. Oh well. But for the first time ever, everything that's inside my comp, all the software, is 100% legal. Go me for being an upstanding citizen :P And a 22" wide-angle comp screen is... much larger than my 19" normal one O_o

I finished installing all the software around 10PM last night. After that, I was so knackered that I just put on a podfic and played Bejeweled till I went to bed. Good times. I'll be back to respond to e-mails and comments once I'm done working for today.

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On the fannish front, I downloaded the new White Collar episode but I had to check out like 20 links before I found one that allowed me to download it at a reasonable speed, not 30kb/s. Honestly, it's just too much bother to keep doing it day in, day out. I'll be downloading only special things from now on. It's just too much work.

I also found a Sherlock Holmes book in my mail box yesterday, Val Andrews' The Torment of Sherlock Holmes!