I would love to have a new and wonderful long SF or fantasy book (series of books would also be fine) that I've just discovered and could wallow in.

What I really want is to read something like Harry Potter, Alastair Reynolds's Revelation Space series, Robin Hobb's Assassin series or A Song of Ice and Fire - and not just reread it either, but ( Read more... )

I've somehow managed to delete all my music files from my MP3 player! 7GB of my finest tunes gone up in smoke!

(I should be relieved that the player itself is still sound, and that I can at least put some music back onto it from CDs tonight, but I've got so used to just having it at my fingertips. It's hard not to feel horribly bereft.)

It is all a ( Read more... )

Is anyone else having problems reading their Friends pages today?

I've been trying to read mine, and I have about a five-second window before it freezes, so I'm giving up in disgust. If something really excited has happened, do please drop me a link, otherwise it looks as though I won't be reading it today.

And that's saying something.

I don't think I've ever seen LJ so slow. I took about 10 minutes just to try to log in - and then I got a window saying that I'd timed out and I'd have to log in again! Come on, LJ, is this fair? Will nobody think of the children pornographers customers?

Anyway, it looks like I won't be replying to any comments today. So ( Read more... )

The last week has been a truly spectacular parade of crazy. I've had just about everything, from venal landlords to unfair blacklisting by checking agencies through loopy stuff at work and unwanted guests to my computer breaking down this afternoon (now mercifully fixed, or I wouldn't be writing this...)

Anyway, just when you think life couldn't get ( Read more... )