Mall, Personal Ad, Uploading Crash: My Day In an Almond Nut Shell

[sisabet]

I just got back into the office from the mall. It actually could have been worse - I bought my mother's gift today and it was an extra 10% off so I treated myself to a bag of those overly sugared warm almonds. And I never have to ever go back. Wheee!

But the people. There were so many people. Not unmanageable levels (yet) but the noise. I feel all headachey now. I can't imagine spending more time there than I did. I'm becoming more and more intolerant of crowds. It just really takes a lot out of me and I need to hole up for a while. Is it possible to age into being an introvert? Maybe I was always an introvert, but I am just really loud, so everyone called me an extrovert but it turns out that I was loud only because my ears are stopped up and I cannot hear myself so I have no volume control?

The shyness should really have given this away. I know I don't sometimes seem shy, but I really am. In my heart I am shy.

Now I want to rewrite my personal ad:

"Reformed extrovert seeks SM that will leave her alone on cue. Must be tolerant to animals and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Allergic to phone a plus, married/involved need not reply."

Now - in the interest of watching Full Metal Alchemist (and dude - episode 7??? WTF??!) I'm having trouble with my computer. This has happened before and I just quit Dling - but since I can't buy these eps, I need to DL because - dammit - that is the easiest thing to do. However, everytime I DL from a torrent - my PC will chug along for about 20-30 minutes and the BLUE SCREEN. I totally crash.

There is plenty of room on all drives. I have no idea why I crash DLing Torrents. This was a problem a while back when I tried to join one of those hub things - a DC+ or DS++ thing. I can't remember what it was, but everytime I connected, I'd upload for about 3 seconds and then - crash. Kazaa used to crash my PC on the uploads. So I think the problem with the torrents is in the uploading connection. I am fairly confident this is what it is because I have never had a problem downloading anything from a Newsgroup.

Do I have some setting wierd? Is this an easy fix? Is it a firewall? Do I have a firewall and is it messing with me? Cause I do not have to take this kind of behavior. I am the owner here. I should be able to control my PC crashes. And by control, I mean - eliminate.

Comments

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

If you can't fix it, let me know what episodes you need, and I'll send you the AVIs. I'm making discs for two other people this weekend anyway.

Episode 7? Oh yes. Episode 7. *whistles innocently*

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

So we are watching ep 7 and I am all "Boy, I think that is so and so. I think dude just did what he did to so and so." and the Boy, who is wise in anime, said "No, they don't do that kind of stuff here." and I was all "Okay, but it would freak me out if that was so and so."

And then it was. Whoa. The show got really good, really fast and last night we finally got back to the beginning.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I am really tempted to start naming the episodes which were turning points because I kept thinking, "They'll go only so far and no farther, stories don't go farther than that, they won't go the--HOLY SHIT THEY'RE GOING THERE."

*That's* why it reminds me of *Buffy*.

But I'm not naming episodes, because I should not let my overenthusiasm turn into spoilerishness.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

"They'll go only so far and no farther, stories don't go farther than that, they won't go the--HOLY SHIT THEY'RE GOING THERE."


FMA is a trip, emotionally and mentally. It jossed me so many times. And it is so mean to its audience. You think "Okay, this show cannot possibly make me any more angry than it already has." And then it does. But I keep watching anyway because I love it so much.

Plus, how often do you get an anime where half the characters (including the main heros) are portrayed as servants (dogs) to a fascist Nazi-like regime?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

*blinks* What do you mean by mean?

There were a lot of things that delighted me, but nothing that made me angry.

Well, except for Episode 4.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Ah, I phrased that poorly. Not angry in the sense that I was angry at the writers, rather I was angry/upset at the terribly unfortunate things that kept happening to various characters.

[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

The show got really good, really fast

INDEED. Episode 7 is where you realize what this show is. Adorable little boys, sweet, smart, and innocent in spite of the whole failed-resurrection thing, on their little quest, lalala, and then BAM! All of a sudden everything goes to hell all at once. This is not a nice world. Not a happy story. Tucker does what he does and you are horrified, but you also kinda saw it coming, and you're kinda impressed they went to that fucked-up place -- and then, in the same episode, they take it a step farther. "Yeah, you saw this coming, but did you see this?" That's when you know the show is never going to pull punches. And the happy fun episodes make the "OMG that is FUCKED UP" ones that much better.

If you can't get bittorrent working, I'm probably going to be putting episodes up on YouSendIt for evemac and she's in about the same place in the series as you, so I can send you the links, too, if you want.

[wrenlet.livejournal.com]

BAM! All of a sudden everything goes to hell all at once. This is not a nice world. Not a happy story.

*wriggle* Yes. And I? Read that part in the manga before I started watching the anime and I thought, Oh they'll never do that in the anime. AND THEN THEY FUCKING DID.

*loves*

Crashes

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

A couple of things you might try:

(1) Defrag the hard drive. (It never hurts.)

(2) Uninstall and reinstall the BitTorrent software.

(3) Uninstall the BitTorrent software and install a different BitTorrent client, like Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net). (Though I have problems with Azureus taking up too much memory and needing to be force-closed.)

(4) Test other torrents to see whether it's a torrent-specific problem.