Disaster Kitchen: It's official.

Jul. 3rd, 2016 11:04 am
caffienekitty: (facepalm)
The smoke alarm in this apartment does nothing.

There were actual flames bout half a foot high and everything this time. I had to beat it out with a damp dish towel. Masses of black smoke everywhere. No real damage though.

What's saddest about this is I was only trying to boil water for tea.
  • Current Mood: okay
  • Current Music: not the smoke alarm
Tags:

Nooooooo!

Aug. 21st, 2015 02:35 pm
caffienekitty: (eek)

Want to know what the Mac equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death looks like?



This problem has the ever-so-reassuring name of "Kernel Panic", which can be as simple as there's some recent software or widget that's conflicting or some scrambled data on the hard drive and it's just a matter of knowing how to fix it, or as non-simple as a massive hardware failure and the computer is terminal or on it's way there. It did this on startup twice after passing POST and loading for a while. It did start up on a third try after a long rest and some breathing exercises, and I am now backing up the hard drive through the built in backup program, and might also just make a direct copy because I'm having my own Kernel Panic now. :-p

I have no idea what's causing this or how to fix it. The computer's been a bit wonky for a while, particularly with the browser crashing a lot, and it was running with less than 10% of it's tiny hard drive left for a good while before I archived a bunch of files but that was earlier this week. It tends to super-heat when playing videos on YouTube. It was the first startup of the day for it this happened on, though, so it wasn't overheating.

It's kind of a major part of my life, (probably more even than my car, which had a major brake failure and has been parked since the 10th and is another thing I need to fix or replace and have no money for anytime soon) and it's really necessary among many other things, for job-searching. It is a laptop from 2008 using OS 10.5.8 so that's about 90 in computer years. The OS is too old to let me upgrade my browser enough to access Google Docs. It's entirely reasonable that it's having problems of some kind, but being able to afford to fix or replace it is not something that's going to happen in the immediate or predictably near future, considering the rest of the series of calamities my life has been lately. :-p

What I do have is the 4 pages of error log it gave me printed out, and a hope that this is something I can stabilize myself somehow.

If anyone knows technical things about Macs running OS 10.5.8 and can tell me either what I can do about this to figure out the cause and make it not happen again, or where to start looking for information on how to do that, please let me know? I'm going to go hit Google while things are backing up here and hope.

  • Current Mood: distressed
Tags:

Nooooooo!

Aug. 21st, 2015 02:35 pm
caffienekitty: (eek)

Want to know what the Mac equivalent of a Blue Screen of Death looks like?



This problem has the ever-so-reassuring name of "Kernel Panic", which can be as simple as there's some recent software or widget that's conflicting or some scrambled data on the hard drive and it's just a matter of knowing how to fix it, or as non-simple as a massive hardware failure and the computer is terminal or on it's way there. It did this on startup twice after passing POST and loading for a while. It did start up on a third try after a long rest and some breathing exercises, and I am now backing up the hard drive through the built in backup program, and might also just make a direct copy because I'm having my own Kernel Panic now. :-p

I have no idea what's causing this or how to fix it. The computer's been a bit wonky for a while, particularly with the browser crashing a lot, and it was running with less than 10% of it's tiny hard drive left for a good while before I archived a bunch of files but that was earlier this week. It tends to super-heat when playing videos on YouTube. It was the first startup of the day for it this happened on, though, so it wasn't overheating.

It's kind of a major part of my life, (probably more even than my car, which had a major brake failure and has been parked since the 10th and is another thing I need to fix or replace and have no money for anytime soon) and it's really necessary among many other things, for job-searching. It is a laptop from 2008 using OS 10.5.8 so that's about 90 in computer years. The OS is too old to let me upgrade my browser enough to access Google Docs. It's entirely reasonable that it's having problems of some kind, but being able to afford to fix or replace it is not something that's going to happen in the immediate or predictably near future, considering the rest of the series of calamities my life has been lately. :-p

What I do have is the 4 pages of error log it gave me printed out, and a hope that this is something I can stabilize myself somehow.

If anyone knows technical things about Macs running OS 10.5.8 and can tell me either what I can do about this to figure out the cause and make it not happen again, or where to start looking for information on how to do that, please let me know? I'm going to go hit Google while things are backing up here and hope.

  • Current Mood: distressed
Tags:

Sherlock Fanfic: The Fire (JWP 2015 #16)

Jul. 18th, 2015 06:14 am
caffienekitty: (sherlock - excuse me?)
Title: The Fire
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Alternate Postings: AO3
Rating/Content: PG13, fire, multiple POV, post-Mary, unrealistic crisis decision-making for the sake of BAMF John, 221B whump, John whump, bad fire safety, bad firefighting, bad first aid, DO NOT TRY ANY OF THIS AT HOME DEAR GOD
Warnings: none
Word Count:2420
Disclaimer: Not my world.
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] watsons_woes July Writing Prompt #16: Picture Prompt: Ablaze. According to AO3, this is my 100th Sherlock story posted so *blows party horns* It hurt me to write this. Please forgive me, 221B. D-:


Summary: When John wakes up, his room is full of smoke.


( Read more... )
  • Current Mood: guilty
  • Current Location: Morning, apparently.
  • Current Music: "Die Another Day" ~ Madonna
Tags:

Sherlock Fanfic: Casu Marzu (JWP 2014 #12)

Jul. 12th, 2014 02:24 pm
caffienekitty: (sherlock-unseen)
Title: Casu Marzu
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating/Content: PG13, dialogue-only, domestic randomness
Warnings: Do not read while eating. MAJOR FOOD SQUICK FACTORS FOR MOST PEOPLE. NASTY NASTY CHEESE. INSECT LARVAE. In case anyone reading thinks I made this stuff up just to be gross, Casu Marzu is an actual cheese that exists. Knowledge of its existence may threaten your future enjoyment of cheese.
Word Count: 500
Disclaimer: Not my world. Definitely not my cheese. :-P
Notes: Written for [livejournal.com profile] watsons_woes July Writing Prompt #12: Imported cheese.

Summary: The deadliest cheese in the world, though mostly not literally.

( Read more... )
  • Current Mood: nauseated
Tags:

Sherlock Fanfic: Casu Marzu (JWP 2014 #12)

Jul. 12th, 2014 02:24 pm
caffienekitty: (sherlock-unseen)
Title: Casu Marzu
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Rating/Content: PG13, dialogue-only, domestic randomness
Warnings: Do not read while eating. MAJOR FOOD SQUICK FACTORS FOR MOST PEOPLE. NASTY NASTY CHEESE. INSECT LARVAE. In case anyone reading thinks I made this stuff up just to be gross, Casu Marzu is an actual cheese that exists. Knowledge of its existence may threaten your future enjoyment of cheese.
Word Count: 500
Disclaimer: Not my world. Definitely not my cheese. :-P
Notes: Written for [community profile] watsons_woes July Writing Prompt #12: Imported cheese.

Summary: The deadliest cheese in the world, though mostly not literally.

( Read more... )
  • Current Mood: nauseated
Tags:

Profile

caffienekitty: Dean sitting slumped in a chair. "Will kill for coffee" (Default)
caffienekitty

July 2023

S M T W T F S
      1
23 45678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Links

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Custom Text

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Top of page