After determining that it wasn’t coming from my clock or computer, I realized that it was coming from outside, and so I peeked through the blinds and saw a world still blanketed in white and some poor schmuck trying to clean off his car. His scraping of ice was the source of the mysterious sound.
Over the next few hours I was awoken by a similar sound as other brave commuters tried to make their way out of the parking lot.
Given this, I wasn’t surprised when, at 8, my phone rang and I was greeted by Tabitha – that actually is her name – calling to tell me that the dentist office would be closed today, therefore my appointment was cancelled.
After that I went back to sleep for a little over an hour.
Beyond talking to my mother, the only thing I’ve done is go out and clean off my car and move it to a space that’s been plowed out.
Though there was heavy coverage on my car, it didn’t take long to remove it, as it was basically thick, wet snow covered by a hard shell of ice. Further, at the bottom it was beginning to melt, so all it really took was a shove and huge chunks, sliding on the wet surface and held together by ice, would slough right off.
I actually removed the snow on the roof of my car in one piece by simply it off.
The most effort went into moving my car, though even that wasn’t too difficult, just a couple minutes worth of rocking.
The sun keeps poking out periodically, and will likely make short work of the bulk of the snow if it manages to stay out from behind the clouds for a while. Even so, while the actual snowing has long since stopped, the ice is melting, schools have been cancelled for tomorrow as well as today. Why not just cancel them for Friday, too?
I just don’t understand why they think that a little snow and ice is such an intractable problem, especially considering how much money as the county has. Oh well.
Oh, one other thing I’ve done so far is a tutorial on creating a realistic-looking LCD screen. Here is the result, which I’ve personalized:
One thing that I’ve discovered after my upgrade to Vista is that I am able to once again get my LightScribe drive to work properly.
LightScribe is a technology that allows you to use your DVD burner’s laser to print labels on special LightScribe compatible discs.
I bought my drive a computer ago, and had no trouble with it in the HP, but after I’d installed it in the current Hugin, I was no longer able to get it to work, despite trying multiple fixes. It worked just fine for burning discs, I just couldn’t use the laser printing feature. I would get an error saying, “Unable to communicate with drive,” or something to that effect, which annoyed me, as I was always able to get the print preview feature to work, which required that there be a LightScribe-enabled disc in the drive. So it could communicate with it for the preview, but not for the actual printing.
Anyway, turns out it was lying to me the whole time, as once I downloaded the Vista drivers and software for it I was able to print without any problems.
So this is another instance in which I wish software and hardware followed the domestic abuse approach to interface design so that I could slap my LightScribe drive around for lying to me for so long.
What other lies have you told me, LightScribe drive???!
Anyway, this hasn’t really been a productive week.
Apart from going grocery shopping, I haven’t ventured out into the world at all. I still need to do that stupid emissions test and get my taxes done.
I’ve done zip in the way of drawing anything interesting. I had to give up on the one picture I wanted to draw because the low-res screen cap I was using as a reference is just too dark and too lacking in detail to allow me to even try to extrapolate useful reference information from it.
I’ve started on another picture, but my heart just isn’t in it.
I was going to make oatmeal raisin cookies yesterday, but I couldn’t manage that, as I don’t have any vanilla extract and I wasn’t about to drive to the store with there being actual weather outside and everyone in full end of the world panic mode.
I ended up making peanut butter cookies instead, which is okay, but I really had my heart set on oatmeal raisin. Oh well.
(Oh, and for those interested, here’s my three ingredient peanut butter cookie recipe:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar (or Splenda if watching carbs)
1 egg
Mix all ingredients together. Make little balls and place on cookie sheet.
Criss-cross fork impression on top of cookie to flatten a bit. Bake for 8-10 minutes at 350.)
Anyway, I think that’s more than enough for one pointless, boring entry.
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