pain and suffering in various tempos

( Just my day in a nutshell; some whining and such. )

So in less whiny news:

1. That vid has been removed. Wow. fiercy and linden_jay are like great shining knights and they're my heroes, and they were patient and polite but stubborn and, wow.

2. I think I'm writing Beckett/Lorne. All I can say is, blame linden_jay. It makes no sense, except to us, but there you go.

3. The wee puppeh has no tail now. And a shaved bum. It's actually kind of funny. But sad. But funny.

4. I've re-watched Doctor Who 3x01 and 3x02, and, dammit, I like the episodes and I like Martha, and I won't apologise for it, and so there.

5. I want to be a dork and say "OMG THERE IS NO FIVE", but, I posted penguins for everybody, and the silly SGA fic that I'm still not sure about really, and Sean Bean is going to be here next week.

Or, well, his voice at least. *g* STAY TUNED. LotR radio production will follow that.

6. IS IT SPRING? Cuz it neither looks nor feels like spring. My hands are frozen like icicles.

7. I'm getting my allergies tested on Monday morning. Which means, after tonight? No antihistamines for the Ash, and I have to work tomorrow, and I suspect I shall be miserable. AND they want me to go in to work after the test and I'm just like "HA HA, well, I was only scheduled for 5 to close, but I'll just be there when I feel humanish again." It's been several years, but I remember feeling rather horrifically awful after I got my allergies tested the last time, and feeling rather horrifically awful for several hours, even after a shower and a massive dose of antihistamines.

8. I want Heroes back NOW, dammit. Oh, and the last several weeks' worth of online comics? I soooo called the identities of Austin and Dallas. What do I win??

So when something's ben downloaded 30 times, and I've only had 4 responses to it, I must assume it's shite.

Was it the vid's music that turned everybody off? I know Slean's music is quite different. Or was the vid really just that bad? Tell me what was wrong with it, because, wow, besides the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind vid, I think this may, in fact, be the worst reaction I've ever had -- so there must be something horrifically bad about the vid.

Constructive criticism doesn't make me cry. Hit me.

Now, if it's the music, I'm going to be forced to upload many songs by this woman, because she is so awesome and so not mainstream and yeah. *G*

Let's see. Not much to say, but I just wanted to make it clear that I did indeed survive my two weeks housesitting and that for the most part, I am okay. I may not be the happiest bunny who ever was, but I'm doing ok.

I'm writing fanfiction, right now. Not as I type this, but I have a plotbunny and the beginning of the story written. HORROR. Though perhaps this is what I need to sort of get my groove back, as that's been... bad.

I have music to offer. It's from a computer game, it's called, simply "floating". It's 10 different files of various small sizes (between 34 seconds and 1:21 in length). Enque them in your media player, select a random play option, and just let it go. It's awesome. Calming and good for the brain.

I have an upset tummy. :(

For the last several nights, I've been ready to collapse in bed by 10pm. Is now quarter to 11 and I'm awake and I have to be at work by 7:45. It's not quite fair.

I want to make vids again. I'm itchy to vid.

My brother and his family are coming to visit from the 15th until the 25th. My nephew is 10 and I've only met him once. He was four. Then there's brother's pregnant fiancee and her two kids. Agh! I don't know if I'll be able to take much "me" time then. Woe. ;)

Last item on the agenda: I have a sitemeter on my site(s). It notes referring URLs and such. A German LJ user noted my vids, the Final Fantasy Advent Children one and my Prisoner of Azkaban vid, "Under Ice". But I can't make any more sense of it than that. I'm wondering if anybody could translate for me? Is it bad form to ask for translation?

And that's it.

I'm not quite sure how far back this really goes. Possibly back to last January, and my "Under Ice" vid. I keep saying "Dear god, this vid is going to kill me."

Obviously, I'm still alive.

But here I am, ages and ages later (well, okay, almost a year and a half). I'm still saying it!

I've spent about 6 or so hours working on 53 seconds of footage -- actually, 40, because the white-text-on-black-background title sequence, really was not difficult. If it was, I think I'd have to retire from vidding.

"Dear god, this vid is going to kill me," says I, after I finish watching those 53 seconds, and look at the fact that I have just less than 4 minutes left to vid.

'Tis my "Year Four" (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) vid, called "Destinies Glow" (tentatively) and set to a song called "Vertigo" (no, not that "Vertigo"), and that's all I'm sayin'.

Except that the other night, when deerdancer was over, and I was fussing and she was coaching me through starting the vid, I realised something. I'm not sure that it's something awful or not, but now all four vids in this series have female vocalists (ooh, a clue, a clue!) and I think at this point, I'm not going to be able to break that. It'd probably be jarring. There goes, like, half the music I could possibly use for Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Whatever Book Seven's Gonna Be Called.

In other news...

There is no other news that ain't whining. And for Mummy's Day, I promised Mummy I wouldn't whine till tomorrow. (Maybe.)

How To Make Vids - The Easy Way: a comprehensive (tongue-in-cheek) guide by di_br.

Read it, love it, then headdesk a few times, because fandom is fucking stupid funny nuts.

vid has et my brane stop possibly leaking out ears stop 5 hours = 30 seconds stop *is ded* </Ashinae>

Dear Vidders,

Please to be doing this, if you're using Windows:
1) Go to "Start"
2) Go to "All Programs"
3) Go to your "DivX" folder
4) Go to the "DivX Codec" folder
5) Click on Decoder Configuration Utility
6) Click the "Quality Settings" tag
7) Check the box that says "Disable Logo"
8) Click "Apply"
9) Click "OK"
10) Vid your damn vid, and the DivX logo won't keep fading in and out intermittently in the final product! Cuz damn, that's annoying.

Frustratedly,
ashinae

PS - if you're using a Mac, I'm not 100% sure how to help you, but you're not exempt. Surely there's some way to figure it out, hm?

Anticipation
Although Eating Honey is a very good thing to do, there is a moment just before you begin to eat it which is better than when you are.

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And as for that possibly-odd request...
If anybody has any of the avi versions of vids I've posted, except for Hazy Shade of Winter, I'd love it if they could be sent to ashinae @ livejournal.com. Please? Thank you! I seem to have misplaced my avi versions; only have the wmvs. :(

Dead Boy's Poem version 2.0 is going to kill me!!

*collapses* Good goddess of vidding, how did I ever, ever make the first version of this vid!?

Wow. I am out of my mind-bored. To the point of -- there's a ton of stuff I could (or perhaps should) be doing, and I don't want to get my arse in gear and actually do any of 'em.

Did, however, attempt to write porn last night (long hand, even!) while waiting for House to download so I could watch the first 15 minutes that I missed. It was a miserable failure. Crumpled and ripped it all up and threw it in the garbage and now it's gone. *nodnod* So I have come to the conclusion that I will likely never be writing porn solo ever again. Just in case anybody out there was waiting for me to do so -- yeah, it's not going to happen. As soon as I find the beta notes I printed out (which were put away "somewhere safe" whilst my room was being renovated, which means I have no idea where the hell they went) and actually edit that Aragorn/Boromir piece I wrote last month, I'll get that posted, and that may in fact be the bright, shiny end of Ashinae-fanfic.

Went out with sara_elf and deerdancer yesterday and went a little spend-crazy. I bought my very first suit (black, pinstripes) for work. Also picked up Buffy, seasons 3 and 4, because HMV had them for 2-for-$90 -- $45/each rather than $62.99 each. Can't really go wrong there. Also picked up both Maybe Baby and Inventing the Abbotts, for $7.99 each, rather than $11.99 and $12.99 which is what they're advertised for everywhere else. Can't go wrong there, either. But that also means that until I get paid for training (and I have no idea when that could be -- at the end of each week? End of second week? God forbid, end of third week?), I only have enough money to pay for my driving test next Tuesday.

Ahh, driving test. Am absolutely terrified. I hate driving, I'm crap at driving. It's supposed to be the renewal for my G2, which means I'm taking the G1 exit test, and not the G2 exit test. The latter would give me my full "G" drivers license, however, it requires highway driving. I haven't done highway driving since I was taking lessons -- the car that I drive, being the only car I am allowed to drive, isn't safe to take out on a highway. So hopefully I really am taking the G1 exit test to renew my G2 or I'm royally fucking screwed, because the testing people are assholes and can, in fact, stop a test for whatever reason. OY. I fucking hate driving.

Finally -- I do not understand how I made all those bloody Boromir-centric vids when I first started vidding. I have several minutes more footage, thanks to the extended editions of The Two Towers and Return of the King, but re-editing "Dead Boy's Poem" is just fucking killing me. AGH. *stabinates* What's worse is that my computer really can't handle me having much on my hard drive at once -- having the scenes from FotR, TTT and RotK that I have already, means that my computer would more than likely freak out if I tried encoding anything else. So I have to stick with "Dead Boy's Poem" or at the very least, Boromir, instead of trying to vid something completely different to save my fandom.

WHY did I decide to be a good daughter and not say "yes" when my dad (very reluctantly, I might add) asked me if I wanted more hard drive space and more RAM when my computer was being built last year? *cries*