The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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[quote="nannarob"]
In 12 hours I begin my journey by travelling and hour south to the airport. In 24 hours I will be landing into the waiting arms of my daughter.[quote/]

Bye! Have a safe and blessed trip, Nannarob!

Chuck, I haven't laughed so hard in weeks! At least the bank refunded my money. I hope I can keep it, or its time for REVENGE! Thanks for the laugh!

Lau, why would you need a x-stitch program?

Hi, Lau. Screenplay writing software basically is supposed to help with writer's block, and to assist with generating ideas. I'm just getting acquainted with this concept. A good one should have a bank of story ideas, and word processing skills, plus the ability to move freely back and forth between screens. Some of the higher up programs have Story board set-ups and screenplay formatting for generating scripts to submit to movie producers. This program that I purchased has so many kinks in it, it needs an iron. Worse, they will not respond to pleas for technical support, feedback, or refunds. I'm sorry I ever met them!

Some days... I get an early night... and tonight's going to one of them.

I started to use kxstich, importing an image of a kitten to give me a cross-stitch pattern that I would then have distorted onto my tutu.

Then I though, "Why don't I go to bed?"

So I di

( blessedmom just shakes her head)

What happened? You get all worn out with book discussion last night?

Three and a half hours into a complete reinstall of XP and still not back up to shape. I knew that would brighten you up.

Why are you reinstalling XP? Aren't you keeping Ubuntu?

Different machine with Ubuntu on it now. I'm getting a fresh XP on this one because a little toy, I tried, messed with the registry and it shouldn't have done exactly what it did. Internet Explorer very unstable. The Ubuntu 64 bit version will go on this one in about 3-4 days. I suspect it will take about 45 minutes or less to put on. If it takes longer then 20 minutes I'll be surprised.

I should redo Windows on the other machine as well, same little program did the same little thing. I get anal about this stuff and if it isn't just so, it has to be redone. It did the same with The Wifes machine, but I shy away from hers, she isn't as fussy and doesn't like the house cleaning I do on hers. Her's will get Ubuntu as well, but later.

PS That's 3 and a half hours with some things saved and predownloaded on the other harddrive and I haven't a clue how long this would take with a dial up connection. I have lost count of how mnay versions of windows I have reinstalled, I'm hardly new at it and do it a lot faster then most.

Aggravating and frustrating as it can be, I love messing with computers. I came to it late, since I was busy working all my life. Now, I have lots of time to learn how they work, and I have so much fun! I plan to learn how to build a computer, and then program it with Linux.

The thing to understand about this is...you have windows AND Linux. When your system boots you are given the option of which you would like to play with for that session. This gives you time to get to know Linux and still stay connected to the world. I should say that's with Linux actually installed on your hard drive. You should run it from CD first, make sure there are no serious issues with hardware. I did say with the other machine Windows did not like the sound card and it took a while to sort through it, a patch did it. But Ubuntu didn't even give a small hiccup with it.

So - you're saying that I should get the CD for it rather than download?

A download will give you a file that you will need to use an ISO? to CD burner, free, the one Lau suggested didn't work (didn't find my CD player) and I found another, I can give you a link. The first one I burned, I did wrong (without the ISO program), the second I burned I did it too fast for the type of CD I was using, the third and forth, perfect. Now mind you I had never burned a CD before either, this was new ground. So what I'm saying is down load it and then burn it. You can run Ubuntu straight from the CD, no install to hard drive needed, do this for a while to just make sure all is going well. Then install it on your hard drive, Having it check itself for no burn errors, easy option, leave windows on the hard drive. When you get to the point where you like Linux better and are comfortable moving around in it, getting programs you like and so on...dump windows. But even then, not really needed, unless hard drive space is tight. Let me know when you might like to burn a CD and I'll give you a link for the tiny program I used for the correct burn. I screwed up not using this and I had the write speed too high was all, nothing major, for the first two blunders.

Active ISO Burner by Lsoft This is free, but will only handle a 500 MB burn, plenty for Ubuntu. I'm sure there are others out there, this was just the one I stumbled onto and it worked fine and was easy to use. This may well get buried before you give this a shot, so just PM me and I'll link it or send it to you.

Didn't want to take up a lot of space with tech talk, so I pm'd you, Postie. Definitely feeling manic, today. Thought that was all gone. Sometimes I question the medical profession for calling it Manic/Depressive Disorder. I read a wonderful book, "Touched with Fire-Manic Depressive illness and Artistic Temperament," about artists and other gifted people, all too many of who were diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. I started to think that maybe it is necessary for the work to get done. I mean, without my bipolar disorder, would I be half as creative, I wonder. Or at all.

Hyper manic, the good manic, not the bad. What a freakin ride that is. Happens why to rarely, but oh my f*****g god, you have to live that one to even have a small hint of what it's like. It's like being in a tidal wave of thought, all making sense in milliseconds or even faster. It's like you're the rain barrel where the information is collected and coming from all these huge monstrous storms of thought. It's like one huge damn of all your thoughts has just opened and knowledge is all right there in neat places you can just pick up and add to and take away from and add to the other little compartments and it just feels like a symphony in action. I mean it really feels good, it's a freakin high. Give it a direction, a problem to be solved and hang on, you are going for a ride you'll never forget. All I can do is pace and talk to myself or to the wife, if she's in ear range, when that happens. I'm pretty sure adrenaline comes into play as well. The hyper is way to rare and if I had a clue how to trigger it, I'd be a hyper manic junky.

Manic, I dunno hard to tell if it's obsession or a combo or if it's the brain doing a chemical dump on the manic side. Then you have the PTSD rage which can look like the bad manic too. I dunno anymore, but I do know the hyper when I see it. Maybe that's when all of it hits at once. I do admit to trying to incite the riot, lol. But I can't ever hit the hyper to it's fullness just by stimming. It's all to rare and maybe that's good, it's pretty draining. You do pay a price for it.

So ask me if it's really Bipolar and I can't honestly say I don't know anymore. But I do know that being aspie fits like a glove. All my actions that are odd do not come close to the official manic/depressive.