It is splendid indeed.
Saturday, June 30th, 2007 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoI had to return the webcam today. For one, the video quality wasn't that good when I tried to chat with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miome, though it was nice to be able to see her. Even if she was making dinner at the time.
For two, the webcam's drivers did not play well with my computer. I could do video for about 20 minutes and chatting for about an hour. After which, my system would blue screen and do a memory dump. o_O I went on-line and found out this is a known problem with some systems. The fault is one of the drivers installed with the webcam. The only solution is to uninstall the drivers, plug in the webcam, let Windows find the webcam and then install its own drivers. No problem, right? Well not exactly. Doing so basically gets rid of half the features of the webcam in the first place. Back to the store the camera went.
I now have a very nice headset/microphone combo so I can do voice chats with the girlfriend.
What else did I do? Went to Michael's to get some mosaic tiles so I can find out how many I need to do the top of the table. Could not find any sandpaper so I'll have to do a Home Depot run at some point. Picked up a birthday present for someone. Since I'm going to have to mail it off, I need to get the other stuff I'm going to mail off done. Will do all that today and tomorrow.
Also picked up some more yarn for the huge blanket I'm crocheting. I'm basically using the blanket as an excuse to try out patterns. It's working very well so far. I have a picture from when I completed the first pattern and will soon be able to take a picture when the second pattern is complete. I may post them when I do.
Writing ideas are beginning to come back. I attribute this to not sitting around all day staring at the walls. I expect my writing to really pick up once the school year starts. I always write more when I'm taking classes. Mostly because I show up 15 minutes early to all my classes and need something to do.
For the first time in a while, this has been a good day.
miome, though it was nice to be able to see her. Even if she was making dinner at the time. For two, the webcam's drivers did not play well with my computer. I could do video for about 20 minutes and chatting for about an hour. After which, my system would blue screen and do a memory dump. o_O I went on-line and found out this is a known problem with some systems. The fault is one of the drivers installed with the webcam. The only solution is to uninstall the drivers, plug in the webcam, let Windows find the webcam and then install its own drivers. No problem, right? Well not exactly. Doing so basically gets rid of half the features of the webcam in the first place. Back to the store the camera went.
I now have a very nice headset/microphone combo so I can do voice chats with the girlfriend.
What else did I do? Went to Michael's to get some mosaic tiles so I can find out how many I need to do the top of the table. Could not find any sandpaper so I'll have to do a Home Depot run at some point. Picked up a birthday present for someone. Since I'm going to have to mail it off, I need to get the other stuff I'm going to mail off done. Will do all that today and tomorrow.
Also picked up some more yarn for the huge blanket I'm crocheting. I'm basically using the blanket as an excuse to try out patterns. It's working very well so far. I have a picture from when I completed the first pattern and will soon be able to take a picture when the second pattern is complete. I may post them when I do.
Writing ideas are beginning to come back. I attribute this to not sitting around all day staring at the walls. I expect my writing to really pick up once the school year starts. I always write more when I'm taking classes. Mostly because I show up 15 minutes early to all my classes and need something to do.
For the first time in a while, this has been a good day.
