note to self.

[karenor]

Going to bed at 3am and waking up at 6:30? Bad idea. Even with rolling around in bed from 8 to 9:30? Still not a good idea.

It's my fault, I shouldn't have stayed up so late, but wtf? WHY can't I sleep?!!?!? I even put up curtains a few weeks ago to help block out some sunlight in the mornings but it hasn't helped. It's only going to get MUCH worse as it gets hotter. God help me if I ever actually get a job

Which of course I've been bad about today and haven't even looked. I had my offbrand Cinnamon Toast Crunch, watched Grey's Anatomy, and caught up on the flist. Now I must attend to some other fannish responsibilities.

Oh! My fancypants wire came yesterday! And after some fiddling, I got it to work, with the picture from laptop to tv! My tv is square, though, and my laptop widescreen so it doesn't work to simply mirror the desktop. Instead I have to do that extend thing, where it's like having a bigger monitor. Like I can drag icons onto my tv and stuff. It's neat because it can have it's own (square-er) resolution. I keep it at it's highest which means it's almost impossible to read text, but playing video files is no problem. My tv is 20 or 22 inches or something, a nice CRT Sony Vega Trinitron. VLC files play awesome at full screen. Look like dvds, honestly. Avi files a little less so, but watchable.

So now must decide if when missperkigoth is here in two weeks if we'll watch Doctor Who on my normal desktop monitor or on the telly. What fun. Though it's going to be interesting watching new Who with someone else. I've never ever done that!

Oh, speaking of which... is the show being skipped for Eurovision on the 24th? Because I'm in Phoenix that weekend for a wedding. I HOPE it's skipped. Eeeeek. AND i have a wedding the following Saturday as well, but I think it's more of an evening affair, so it should be all right.

Right, anyway, I said I was going to go do stuff, right?

Comments

[missperkigoth.livejournal.com]

How rad would it be for me to bring my new pretty best friend? Sadly, I can't justify hauling an HDTV on a road trip. :-(

[karenor.livejournal.com]

our BIG Vega in the living room has front input S-Video and RCA's... we can play with that if my parents leave us alone. :)

In fact, I should try that, see if it works all right.

[missperkigoth.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes!!! :-) I have to bring something nice for them too, like some foodies or summat.

[karenor.livejournal.com]

I just tested it out. It works very well. Even a standard avi file is pretty watchable on the big tv. So maybe we can do it that way if my parents aren't around to bug.