Technical Difficulties

A 22-post collection

Figuring it out

I got the new Pixel 2, just before the end of the year, and it has been some interesting colours of Hell just to get it to perform properly. Case in point - I'm still getting all of my music on my computer copied to this little devil's storage.

I'm going to have to make a new phone case for the thing, since it's just that little bit bigger than the original. And I have a continuing problem with the headphone jack.

As you may be aware, people like having waterproof phones, and having a headphone jack makes that impossible. The solution - add a dongle that docks your charging port with a headphone jack. Except... it isn't quite a solution.

For a start, I have to reset what my USB port does every time I want to listen to my own shit. Even when I pull the dongle out to do other stuff and put it back in. It's a pain in the butt.

There are, apparently, over-ear headphones that are wireless. I will have to see them to believe that they are painless. If all else fails, I can go with the Smallest Earbuds in the World, and deal with things that way.

Headphones and I do not often get along. My ears are a weird shape or something and every "comfortable" set of over-ear 'phones firkin crushes my cartilage and makes private listening hell. It's so bad that the default comfort level for me is wearing them backwards. Even with the old, cheap, speaker-wrapped-in-foam over-ear models you can still get from the dollar shops. And those are the ones that I can stand to wear for the longest.

Ironically, the more expensive ones with the luxurious padding and the stylistic headbands, the ones with the brand name and the three-figure price tag... the more expensive they are, the sooner they hurt me. I mean, sure, I love the aesthetics of them and all, but... give me the dollar shop 'phones, please. Especially if they can come in wireless. Which I doubt they do.

I'll figure it all out eventually.

We're Back!

The site is alive. Yay.

On the other hand, my email is dead. Boo.

Mayhem has a thing this morning, and I need to make sure that happens, and it's happening at ten.

I have linked up all the stories we've missed, and I'll be adding the prompts I was given via Steemit to the prompt queue.

So there might not be today's story until a lot later than usual. Be warned.

I have a son to poke. Back whenever.

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I am frustrate

I was so proud of myself, this morning. I went from scribble-sketch to proper sketch to neat inks in one morning. I was so happy, I wanted to try colouring the thing, or at least making a start on colouring the thing...

But Procreate wasn't co-operating. It now refuses to let me use the airbrush tool and, for a while, it wasn't letting me use the tablet pen.

It would work elsewhere, just not in Procreate.

After backing the iPad Pro up

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Bug'rem bug'rit...

State of affairs: One out of three scheduled posts happened as I think I scheduled them. The others, set allegedly two hours apart, didn't. And that scheduled post happened seven hours ago, now.

Fun times.

I'm just going to let those other two go, for the majority of today, because today is all about Chaos' Adventures at the Orthodontist. Yes, today Miss Chaos is getting Government Brackets for her skewed teeth. I'll probably have to shell out some kind of cash and

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Technically technical difficulties

Okay, so here’s the scoop.

While I was over in Thailand, I used a (gasp) foreign chip so I wouldn’t be landed upon by positively ginormous roaming charges. And so I could, you know, call home without also gathering a huge debt.

Now that I’m home and back on my regular chip, my computer refuses to recognise that there’s photos in there at all. And I know for a fact that I have almost

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