Category Archives: Real Life

Stuff that involves real life mysteries, wonders, and anything else about it.

Thursday the 18th of April, 2013 at 9:54:53pm UTC

So, I apparently have a new phone. It’s apparently an HTC Explorer. It apparently runs on the 3 network, and apparently the contract is for 12-months and is on the FlexiFix 25 plan.

It’s all apparently because I wasn’t the one who actually ordered it. Three decided it would be a good idea for their telesales division to ring my mother to inform her of this deal whereby anyone she recommends to Three will earn that person and herself a month free. So she got a new phone/SIM/contract in the hopes that either I would take it and take on the contract, or my sister would take it to replace one of the many phones she’s gone through and “broken”. (Also, something about my sister being embarrassed to tell her friends she has a Tesco Mobile 089 number)

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Not terribly shiny, but shinier than what I had.

One thing I’m still struggling with is adapting to all the new ringtones and notifications. Gone are the monotone series of beeps that were the only option with my old Nokia 1101. And in their place I put several of the sounds from Team Fortress 2.

So, my ringtone: 


My message alert tone: 


And my e-mail alert tone: 


Sometimes I hear them and have to spend a while figuring out why they’re playing, and then try and remember which is which... Bonus points if you know what sound bites they are.

Work

I’m not a happy person right now. Earlier today, an older relative of mine – someone who I had previously considered as very close to me – said that they were “appalled that I had the audacity to say that what I did online was considered work“. Saying that what I do in making various videos for YouTube, and earning money from that media based on a contract I have with an American media company, was not real work.

Now, I’m well aware that currently this doesn’t earn me enough money by itself to be able to live off, and because of this I wouldn’t ever go out and say that I do this for a living. But I take serious offence to being told that I’m not doing “work”, period. Continue reading

Friday the 15th of February, 2013 at 8:33:49pm UTC

Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait, we have Dairy Milk with Oreo now? WHY AM I ONLY FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!

Dammit, now I’m going to have to spend the best part of next week finding this and stocking up like mad on it. Going by the pictures I saw on this blog, I will fall in love with it. Almost as much love as what I have for Häagen-Dazs Cookies and Cream – which is basically Oreos without the brand name!

Just a damn pain that Cadbury direct on Amazon won’t ship to Ireland :(

TheChrisD

Thursday the 17th of January, 2013 at 11:48:18pm UTC

So, it’s Akumakon this weekend, and as per usual I’ll be heading there as a half-otaku, and half-Eirtakon representative. So, I’ll be rather quiet this weekend – not that I wasn’t already going to be pretty quiet anyway.

Years on this Earth completed: 23

And so, the 24th year begins.

Although not much will change, still going to spend most of my time online as:

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live In It