No matter how hard I try, I cannot unmount my external harddrive from my MBP. Any suggestions? Thanks very much!

i know its a fantasy/ adventure novel...

i think it starts in a castle, something happens there that causes a girl to run away (either because she is being hunted or someone she loves is hurt/killed i cant remember) i don't remember much of how she got to this place but she ended up at a cottage, with some women and help them by working to pay rent, but i think she then realizes she can sense things in the future, or knows things could happen. and when she finds out something about the king she helps him, and he end up consulting her for advice. and there are 2 men looking for her, the one who loves her and the one who wants to kill her. and in the end both find her, and I'm sure she either kills the evil guy or her "love" kills him, and she goes bk to the castle.. some of these details may nt be correct but from what i remember this is the best i can come up with.

if anyone thinks they know please help, im itching to get my hands on this book again =D

Thank you x

Hello,
I have recently heard some bad news from a Japanese friend of mine. she has cancer.
I know what I would say in english. However, I have no idea where to begin in Japanese. She wrote other things in the email besides just the diagnosis, like she told me of how her siblings were doing and she thanked me for the present i sent her. She also sent me another email the day after talking about some other subjects.
How do I respond to her? Do I acknowledge the diagnosis first or do I slip it in somewhere? Am I discreet or do I speak my sympathy ect about it? Do I talk about the other subjects she gave me to talk about? What is appropriate for JAPANESE?

My question is: How do you appropriately express consolidence and/or sympathy in japanese?


I would so greatly appreciate any advice.

Or if anyone could help me translate these sentences (I know there must be set phrases somewhere..), or let me know of a website, a book, Anything.. I would really be grateful..
- If there is anything that I may do to help please let me know
- I am so sorry to hear this

Or any other phrases that are appropriate..

Thank you.

Hello! I was wondering what this sentence meant: 風を臭うと申しております

Context:

映画にたとえるなら
風の谷のナウシカで
ペジテからの飛行船が落ちそうになって
真っ暗な雲に覆われた夜空に向かって
「どうしたの？」「風を臭うと申しております」
のあたりな感じ。わかりづらいか。。。


Thank you... and I'd also like to take this opportunity to say a heartfelt "Thank you," everyone who graciously replied to my post about BL a while back. I haven't replied to most of them yet because I'm going through each suggestion. But really, thank you so much. :)

I see the people doing the yearbook picture meme have gotten to senior year today. Coincidentally, when I was back home last weekend, I grabbed my high school yearbook to take back with me. It was not really for any one reason, although I have been seeing more HS people crop up on Facebook. For a few of them, I've actually wracked my brain trying to put a face from 15 years ago with the name. It doesn't help when the women change their names and don't use the maiden name.

However, no, I will not be scanning and posting my senior year picture. If you already know what I look like now, I have two words for you: hockey hair.

Besides that, it's not like I have painfully awkward memories of high school. I was glad to leave it all behind and get to college.

Uh, yeah. About time I updated with a proper entry.

First off, thank you to those of you who sent me emails/PMs asking if I was ok after my last update. I'm doing ok, and things have been sorted out with Mark, and we're back on track again. Sort of. We'll see what happens over the next few weeks or so. It's weird to think we've been together 7 months now. Time has just flown by, really, and it seriously doesn't feel like it's been that long. I think part of it is down to the fact that we don't live in each others pockets. This is a good thing. :D

It has been so unbelievably hot here lately. It's cooled down a bit now, which I'm happy about. Was literally melting in the heat over the weekend. At one point it was 35.6C! Waaaaaaaaay too hot! There was no breeze to speak of, and what little breeze there was was warm. So opening windows didn't help at all. Warm inside, warm outside and aaaaaaargh. I'd hate to think how I'd cope in warmer countries.

It was so bad, I couldn't even cope with snuggling up to Mark like I normally do. He's a human furnace at the best of times, so over the weekend we were pretty much sitting at opposite sides of the sofa as we were both just too hot.

We went out on Saturday night for a meal and a few drinks and ended up coming home fairly early as the pubs were too hot - which they normally are, but usually you step outside and cool down, so it's bearable - this was not happening on Saturday night, so it was just too uncomfortable to stay out.

Tomorrow night, we're going to an engagement party - my mums friend just got engaged. Then next week Mark is on holiday from work. My car has to go into the garage on Tuesday, as there's a problem with the hinge on the driver door. Not sure if the garage can fix it - it may have to go in to a body shop, as to fix it, they may have to remove panels and the garage won't do that. I hope they can fix it though. I hate not being able to use my car in fear that the door will fall off. Heh.

Oh! And my dad went through the most expensive way ever to meet Mark. Because I hadn't done anything to arrange for them to meet, my dad got kind of...impatient. So decided he'd get new tyres for his car, and went to Mark's work to get them. He....didn't even really need new tyres. So uh. Yeah. Weird. Oh well. Saves me spending time with my dad. Which is a horrid thing to say, but uh. I have issues. Don't judge me. :p

Mark is still sort of trying to get me to meet his parents. And it's not that I don't want to, it's just that......I'm scared. I also set down some ground rules. I have this thing about eating in front of people I don't know. So we can't go out for a meal. I also would prefer to meet them on neutural ground, meaning not at their house. This makes things difficult as his parents are very busy people, and Mark works really odd hours. He's saying that he's just going to bite the bullet and arrange a time to meet them next week. Which I suspect will be at their house, but eh. I just need to get over this and meet them. It's not like I've been refusing to meet them or anything, it's just that Mark hasn't taken the initiative and arranged for it to happen, really, and I think it would just be easier for him (and his parents, probably), if I just agreed to go visit them. So uh. Yeah. We'll see what happens.

Ate at John&Yoko, at Greenbelt 5, fusion Japanese food, to celebrate my dad's and my brother's birthdays. The gindara steak was amazing, rockefeller oysters were pretty yum, and I highly recommend the shrimp and enoki (golden/straw mushroom?) pizza -- slightly cheesy, slightly sweet, very very good. One of the appetizers, thin slices of toasted bread with tuna and salmon sashimi was pretty good, too.

Hmm, the spider roll (soft-shelled crab). The teppanyaki was salty but otherwise not memorable; I'd give it a pass. Chawan mushi was so so; steamed egg + giant prawn, and it looked good, but didn't taste anything close to how it looked. Tea was... ergh. They used Lipton fruit tea, not any form of green tea or rice tea; disappointing.

I ordered some cherry blossom sake instead. Now that was nice! Slightly sweet, with no bitter undertone/aftertaste, and it didn't make me red or itchy! So that was interesting, and sweet.

Talked about stuff at the table. Some things I need to think about still. Went home in one car with my brother and sister. My parents were in the other car, leaving us free to talk about our respective dating lives, etc.

corveys moped all night; he slept near the front door.

brushette slept in her standard spot, but the slightest noise out front had her up and barking.

As promised yesterday in my tweet... here it goes again... last time I made this was back here

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A WEEK IN THE LIFE PHOTO MEME

Aim of the Game: For one week, you are to post photographs taken during the day.

Rules:
1. You must take between 6 to 8 new photographs per day.
2. Your WITL must be consecutive. No skipping days.
3. You must post your photographs at the end of that day, some time after the last picture is taken.
4. Each photograph must have the time taken beneath and a title, with no other explanation.

You must post these rules at your first entry, then link back to it for the other six days so that people will know wtf you're doing.

Your post must say "A Week in the Life of [your name/username], Volume [whatever day you're on]."

( Volume 1: Thursday, July 9, 2009 )

Its amazing how much easier things are when you use the latest version.. all the problems I was having with battling WordPress to get just a simple image displayed where I wanted it? Sorted. Now I've upgraded from clunky old 1.5 to fab new shiny 2.8, yay widgets!

Less yay on uploading files, amending configuaration files and poking around inside MySQL settings, the latter mainly because I was trying to log in with the wrong username mind you *facepalm* Only took me three go's round the settings to finally spot that.

Going to be much easier for my auntie to post to, and add images etc.

Phew.

Time for lunch, methinks!

My Mac Pro has developed an interesting problem. It is constantly scrolling down. Say I am in a window and click on the top item, then it immediately scrolls all the way to the bottom. If I am in a Word document, for example, and click on the first word it scrolls straight down to the bottom. It is not a mouse problem as I've tried it with two different mice and even without a mouse, and it still does the same. I've rebooted to no effect. This is stopping me working and is very annoying. Has anyone any idea what might be wrong and how to fix it?


Edit: Ignore me, problem solved

This evening, while I ate, I finished another Osprey book, this one being Campaign #199: Philippi 42 BC: The Death of the Roman Republic, about the fight between Brutus/Cassius against Octavion/Mark Antony. Nice bits about their training similarities; background on the politics. These Osprey books have good, solid historical data.

Me and the dogs (brushette and corveys), this evening. Just the three of us. We're awaiting the return of our lady. Our prayers and good wishes go out to her.

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Wednesday, 1020: ...usb ... chainsaw? !?! http://www.usbchainsaw.com/ @miragrant, this may be relevant to your interests.
• Wednesday, 1021: @pir_anha heeeeeeeeeeeee
• Wednesday, 1022: RT: @donttrythis: Locked keys in running car with dog inside. Picked my way back in with a paperclip and my leatherman. Doofus=Action Hero
• Wednesday, 1025: Ooo! RT: @grantimahara: Watching: trailer for Daybreakers. Vampires and Willem Dafoe. Check it out. Do it, do it now... http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809912192/trailer
• Wednesday, 1026: @grantimahara http://twitpic.com/9p2hu - I love your expression there.
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