*weeping in frustration*

Jul. 9th, 2025 08:05 pm
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[personal profile] starwatcher
 

Help me, great fandom hive-mind.

I signed up for Netflix.

I updated my iPad iOS. (Two hours.)

I downloaded the Netflix app. (Fifteen minutes.)

I signed into my account.

I clicked on Old Guard 2.

Several sources tell me that I can click the "Download" button to get it on my iPad. But I've looked all over the screen, and don't see anything that seems appropriate. Do any of you know what the hell it looks like, or where it is on the screen?

Alternatively, this article -- https://techdetective.com/netflix-no-download-button/ -- tells me that I can download with Windows 10, which I'd much prefer; I want it on my laptop. But Netflix says it can be download only on Apple or Chrome devices, or Android phones. Can anyone confirm or deny, and walk me through it?

Yeah, I'll watch it through Dish on my TV -- but I want to have it close for when I make a transcript. (I feel like it's kind of my duty...)

Y'know, I'd happily pay $39.95 for a DVD if Netflix would just make available!!! I'd even break down and buy a Blu-Ray player if they put it out only in that format. I just hate this current expectation that everyone is enamored of streaming services. Grrr...

EDIT: Thanks to Mific, I found the download button, and it's in progress. Now to figure out how to get on my laptop... *StarWatcher wanders away, mumbling into her beard*
 

Dailies

Jul. 9th, 2025 08:40 pm
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[personal profile] kalloway
I could complain about work, but what even is the point?

Limited Edition PG 1/60 Blue Frame went up for sale the other night and I ordered one. As I said to my parents, as far as mid-life crises go, model kits are pretty tame. I also have some things on the way from various weekend sales which, whoops, was not terribly expensive but sure is a lot of parcels. I still need to order paint.

My last two Suruga-ya orders rolled in after spending a bit of time in customs. One was the last Estailev kit that I needed, and certainly the biggest. I had not realized it was huge! I will possibly pick away at the related SD-styled ExeCreR kits in the future, but for now I'm pretty good. (No, I do not know why I got absolutely obsessed with these. I really hope they're pleasant builds!)

I tried out a new mobile game, Silver and Blood, but I just didn't click with it. Interesting premise, and I should theoretically like weird vampire game? But nope, after getting through the first chapters and thinking it was okay, I found myself just sort of staring at the icon the next day thinking 'actually I don't really care'.

Time to wait for Seven Knights Rebirth, I guess. And then I'm 100% out of upcoming mobile games?

Tomorrow, I clean out the fridge (not for any awful reason; it's just that time) and do a lot of general pickup if it's not too hot.

Tiny Plastic Souls

Jul. 6th, 2025 07:46 pm
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[personal profile] kalloway
There often comes a point when I'm building a model kit that I realize that ah, I am being watched right back. There is a tiny plastic soul* in there of some sort, and sometimes not quite the one I'm expecting.

The last month or so of model kits/gunpla! )

*which is not to say I think that my kits are actually-alive in any way, this is more in the fun way that my aunt and I used to leave offerings of jellybeans for my grandmother's porcelain doll collection so they wouldn't eat us in our sleep.**
**at least I think we weren't serious about that.***
***I should probably email my aunt.

a hoard of paper

Jul. 3rd, 2025 11:57 am
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[personal profile] taichara
I made it to the library this morning, due in no small portion to [personal profile] kalloway reaching through the internet and all but yeeting me out the door (look the brainweasels are the size of wolverines).

I started at the beginning (nonfiction, always nonfiction) and made it to the fuzzy border between agri/homesteading and food proper and had to pack it in because I ran out of space in the backpack I brought; 99% of crafts, plus history etc will wait another day.

Thirteen books came home with me. I assure you they will all be read.

My brain is fucking starving.

Monthly Roundup Returns

Jul. 3rd, 2025 10:38 am
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[personal profile] kalloway
[community profile] sunshine_revival's first challenge is goals/plans for the month, just in time for me to actually post my monthly plans roundup. (A couple of days late, because hot.)

So here goes:

June )

July's plans are to survive being too fucking hot.

July )

There is another part to the challenge but I'll worry about that later, if at all.

*lies flat*

Jul. 2nd, 2025 11:23 am
taichara: (Desert's Jewelbox -- rain)
[personal profile] taichara
Needed to run out quickly this morning to get a money order to pay the interest on a loan that should have been paid off but fuckholes gonna fuckhole; narrowly missed the torrential downpour by the skin of my timing's teeth. The torrential downpour that did nothing but ratchet the humidity up higher on this hottest day of the week.

But never got my long-hoped-for-over-weeks-of-schedule-fuckery trip to the library because I'm called in to work tonight after all so I had to run the errand and scurry home to do laundry after getting a few quick things for work.

But I can't complain either because fucking hell in a cell it's because my coworker's mother died. He was off for a week getting their place put in his name and I suspect she was just hanging on long enough for him.

It doesn't matter that he knew it was coming, it still sucks. It all sucks.

I hate the world and everything in it and I'm so tired.

M-T-W

Jul. 1st, 2025 09:21 pm
kalloway: (GSMSV P-Zaku)
[personal profile] kalloway
Luckily, shutdown this year has us staying on our shifts. (Though I admit to being slightly sad to not be able to grab takeout every day after work...)

Unfortunately it is still stupidly hot despite being dark and the humidity is actually brutal.

Got an amusing postcard from [personal profile] misbegotten, thank you! And zines from [personal profile] used_songs, yaaaay! (I flipped through them quickly, will look properly over the weekend, probably.)

And received some lovely icons over in [community profile] femgiftboxes from [personal profile] cosmic_whore_writes and [personal profile] linky. <3 I wrote three things, which I will try to get archived to my own spaces this weekend for easier reading. ^_^;

[community profile] sunshine_revival has started. The first prompt includes goals/plans, and since I do those monthly anyway, I'll get that posted sooner than later. (but not til after work, at least)

A few minutes ago, the first drop of 'Gundam Summer Fest' went live on the Premium Bandai site. I had a kinda chonky list of things I wanted and low expectations because "things sell out instantly" and yeaaah, lol. I actually managed nine of sixteen things on my list and then added in a couple other normal pre-orders with the same shipping month, so I'm pretty happy! There'll be at least one other drop next month? and then whatever after the pop-up tour is over, and of course I'm actually going to try to get to the last pop-up tour date so there might be some of these kits there?

I owe a post of kit photos and whatnot. Hopefully over the weekend.

Rebuilding journal search again

Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pm
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We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

The Long Weekend

Jun. 28th, 2025 07:21 pm
kalloway: christmas bubble lights (Xmas Lights 4 Bubbles!)
[personal profile] kalloway
I have bought more dirt though I'm not sure if there will be further plant hijinks this weekend or not.

Back at the beginning of the month, it was announced that there was going to be a Gundam Pop-Up Shop this weekend down in Kentucky and I thought 'well that's only seven hours away' and took a day off- but got talked out of it and a closer location has since been announced... I kept the day off mostly because I've barely used any, the year is half-over, and an extra day off sounded nice. ^^;;

Worked out well because I'll admit that finding out my ancient site was finally going offline did throw me for a bit of a loop. Did I then spend the night frantically archiving? Nope. I finished up HG Sazabi, who is a seriously big boy filled with Yearning, and noodled with some other stuff. And sprawled on my bed and let a cross-breeze blow through my place...

Saturday was mostly fussing around, looking for notes and building a little non-Gundam kit from Sheik Mainland, called a Yunque. Cute little critter, and while I'm not without minor complaints, it was a good build. Started on Starfall, finally, after what, two months of being utterly intimidated?

Going to try to get through a bit of my inbox. It's amazing that no matter what I do, I just don't seem to get anywhere. But, I suppose, it's not getting actively worse, either?

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