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March 5th, 2009
08:18 pm - of Varmints, Videos and Vampires
I am SUPERTECH!!
Well, not really. Relatively speaking, I am Supertech in that after our battle yesterday Mum and I finally got the nerve up to set up the combi VHS-DVD player that we'd got some months ago and has been languishing in a large box in the middle of the living room ever since.
And it seems to work!
There's still a few kinks, and I'm hoping we can split it so that we don't have to keep watching tv through the player, purely because it means that you have to use one remote to change the channel and another remote to alter the volume, but if you try to change the channel using the remote you need to change the volume the telly goes haywire and has to be turned off and on again.
So we got it set up and the digital working and this morning I decided to test its Key Feature- the ability to record the contents of an (uncopyrighted) VHS to DVD. This was the main selling point because since I was really, really small I liked to collect things on videos. I have hundreds of the buggers- So Haunt Me, Claymation Christmas, Documentary on Kenneth Williams, X Men, Rise and Shine, a couple of videos of me as a small child done by Cliff and so on and so forth. The idea of being able to get them onto DVDs and thus no longer be prone to going wonky and green (like what happened to my video of Elizabeth) is minimised. So I decided to have a go. Most of my videos these days are in boxes in the loft and I didn't much fancy fighting up there for a test run so somehow ended up going to one of the most personally important tapes. My school musical production of The Wind in the Willows forever ingrained, through the light of nostalgia, as the happiest time of my life, being in that production. The original tape is almost in ruins, luckily after the machine ate the tape a friend copied it onto another tape just as back up. So I set it up and tried to turn it to DVD.
It works!
My glee, it is HUGE. And of course, I had to keep an eye on how it was going and ended up spending half the morning watching the production and being pleased at how many names I could remember (even though surnames are sadly more elusive)
So that was all shiny and good and then I had a swift bit to eat before going, with my Nanny and Fern, to my Auntie M's house. Auntie M and her boyfriend, and Auntie I had all gone to crufts. Thus leaving Nanny and I with the care of six doggies. Amber, Jack, Daisy Mae, Ben, Sandy and Fern. Different sizes, different breeds, different temprements (all varying degrees of 'loverly').
So Nanny threw biscuits in and we scrambed in whilst distracted and herded them out the back to calm down and, after each getting their customary bit of fuss we managed to get them to settle down and it was mostly fine after that, even with an awkward moment or too like when Sandy was trying to climb up me in order to lick my face and got a paw caught on my cardigan but every time I tried to lean over to untangle the paw, Jack, (Irish Wolfhound) had his head under my arm and would try and slobber on my glasses, or head-butted my chest or in some otherway had me occupied in an attempt to keep my balance. It was undoubtedly an amusing spectacle, with a river of fur rushing round my legs.
But it was good and then I got chippy chips and got home just in time to listen to Old Harry's Game :)
And on coming home I found another wonderful thing: lycoris has written a House/My Best Friend is a Vampire Xover for 40fandoms:
Fic Rec- House/My Best Friend Is A Vampire
Title: Making an Informed Decision
Fandom: House M.D/My Best Friend's a Vampire
Author: lycoris
Rating: PG
Ship: N/A
Summary: When Thirteen finds out that Wilson is a vampire, she has a request. Can Wilson refuse?
Click Here to Read
*glee* so it is all shiny and happy and brilliant and such :)
Current Mood: itchy and tired
Current Music: Toad's Hour Has Come from Wind in the Willows
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