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Check-In Post April 24th 2024


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illariy: a woman opens a colourful letter (letter)

[personal profile] illariy 2024-04-24 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it was a little soul destroying for sure as it wasn't a short letter, either.

But I wrote about the postal machines and the incident to several penpals and their commiseration helped a lot at that time.

I don't think I've ever lost an email before but that doesn't sound good, either. Especially because it was only on a computer screen or smartphone screen and could feel like it was never there as it vanished into thin air? Hm. I hope that never happens to you again but that might be a big thing to hope!
illariy: a woman sits and leans against a giant white question mark (question mark in my head)

[personal profile] illariy 2024-04-24 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it did and thank you for your sympathy, too.

That weird email provider glitch sounds like a major headache! And the cranky old computer woes, oh, I know them too well. My current and only computer is 14 year old Macbook, hehe. Thankfully, it does not lose emails - so far. Your notepad hack is useful, though!

Some of my penpals scan in each letter as they send it because they have lost too many letters in the past. That is too much work for me, though.
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-04-26 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, a Trek reference! I love Star Trek, especially Spock, so this comment put a huge smile on my face. :D

Best wishes are much appreciated. I think I'll have to buy a new used one soon or at least put some sort of Linux on it as software support for Firefox ESR ends in September 2024 and I am having trouble finding a current browser that supports such old hardware on macOS.

Hope your current laptop will last 8 years or longer, too! *crosses fingers*
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-04-27 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Now I really regret getting rid of my last Spock icon. :D Yeah, Leonard Nimoy passing was very sad for me, too. I found Star Trek TOS when I was 12 and read his biography I am Spock at the same age and was an ardent fangirl for decades. I am hoping to get back into the fandom soon, actually. Very happy to meet another Spock and LN fan! LN is the best Spock, no one can change my mind about that.

I really like that TextEdit which comes for free with macOS or at least did with mine. It can do many of the simpler wordprocessing things, e. g. open and edit docx files, and Pages can do even more things. But to to be honest, for things above TextEdit's paygrade I only use LibreOffice ad OpenOffice. Oh, and of course LaTeX for uni. All are free thankfully. I do know that especially collaborating/track changes can be buggy between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office. So sad to hear that you have to pay for it. Hopefully it's at least not a subscription.
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-04-28 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I, too, hate how many apps have moved to subscription! I had a trial of YNAB, the budgeting app for macOS that eventually expired, and when I finally had some money, I went to buy the full version but they're now subscription and I think even web-app only so I noped out of that after all.

Star Trek IV is my fave Star Trek film of all time! Closely followed by Star Trek I and then the Reboot films. Whales and Spock FTW.

So sorry to hear about your mother's death. That must have been double devastating. :-(

My mother died about 11 years ago and it was devastating, too.

I really respect LN for publicising his COPD diagnosis and using his reach on Twitter to warn his readers about the dangers of smoking.
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-05-02 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesss, I love the first ST film! Aside from IV with the whales, the first film has one of my fave ST moments ever: the moment Spock first enters the bridge in that gorgeous black robe. Yummy. And Kirk's face! I really enjoyed the novelisation of it, too.

Sad to hear about your mother. I can fully understand you missing her after this time. I hope you have plenty of good memories that can give you strength while missing her.
illariy: a young man swings his hair (boy hair swing)

[personal profile] illariy 2024-05-03 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
What a huge loss for you! So lovely that you were her carer for the last few years. And lovely that you still talk to her. I can only imagine the breadth of memories you have of her, still being in that same place.

I moved out 8 years before my mother died, for my studies at uni. We had a complicated relationship for sure - I have PTSD due to what she did to me but of course, I still love her. I am an only child and she was a single mother so as you can imagine, we were still close. I would've loved to keep her old flat the way it was as it was also the main flat I grew up in but it just wasn't possible and I had to clear everything out within about 3 months. That... wasn't fun.

So cool you have the novelisation as well! I no longer own the physical book, had to declutter it years ago due to space constraints. But I sure remember it very fondly and I think I still own the ebook version somewhere.
illariy: a woman opens a colourful letter (letter)

[personal profile] illariy 2024-04-28 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
P.S.: If you ever watch any of the Reboot films, I would love to hear your opinion, especially about the plot's and Zachary Quinto's take on Spock. :-)
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-05-02 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be cool! The first one is my fave of the Reboot ones but I happen to love origin stories.
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[personal profile] illariy 2024-05-03 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
For sure! ST:XI at the start is just that, at least for reboot!Kirk and reboot!Spock. I loved that.