Last night's drama was in my brain. The desktop will start up --- I'm posting from it right now --- it just took longer than I was used to, and I was nervous and impatient and didn't give it enough time last night ( Read more... )

Computer drama continues. Finally got the call that the desktop was ready, made the drive and picked it up, brought it home --- and it won't start up. Call the shop again in the morning... (This place has always been good before, honest.) [ETA: forgot to note, my portable hard drive where I actually keep my stuff was pronounced healthy, so ( Read more... )

Desktop computer is still in the shop. Waiting for the shop to call is stressful ( Read more... )

I'm having some computer trouble right now, but I still have my laptop so it hopefully shouldn't be debilitating. (Disruptive for me, but I can manage.)

Anyway, now that the new year has begun, my belated report on Christmas and timely report on Yuletide!

( Christmas haul, plus fanfiction for Chalice by Robin McKinley, Legend of Zelda, and I can finally reveal my overachieving Yuletide assignment and squee about AKATSUKI NO YONA, OMG AKATSUKI NO YONA )

A few notes beforehand ( Read more... )

Happy New Year everyone! My family has a tradition of not really ringing in the new year at all, but tonight I'm listening to NPR's special and had wine and cheese at midnight. (Wine is an issue at our house, but Mom and I had hidden some mini-bottles of Sauvignon Blanc for cooking and I drank one; I still can't help making a face when I drink ( Read more... )

We were so overcast last night that I missed the lunar eclipse. I don't know how much of it I would have stayed up for anyway, but when I went out to check the visibility around midnight or one, I couldn't see a thing ( Read more... )

Been feeling under the weather the past few days, but I don't know if I'm actually sick or if I'm adjusting to the dry furnace air of winter. I'm not actually congested, but my nose and throat are kind of dry-feeling and itchy and gunked up; when it makes me cough, it's not that there's any kind of obstruction, just that there's a tickle. It's ( Read more... )

Today we went to the old college town then backtracked for more shopping in the smaller and more familiar state capital where my church is. I had one last library book to return (having scanned the one story I needed out of it for when and if I get back to my project of watching and reviewing Aoi Bungaku) which necessitated the trip, but after ( Read more... )