Writing Resumes
Wow, Live Journal, I'd pretty much forgotten that you're owned by a Russian firm until I started getting slammed today with suggestions of entries by pro-Putin apologists who think the Ukraine War was Absolutely Necessary because there are little children giving Nazi salutes and Ukraine didn't let Donbas go off on its own peacefully the way Russia did with...Chechnya, I guess?
I also noticed that nearly all of your "Top LJ Entries" at the point when I logged in a few moments ago were several years old.
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In happier news closer to home, the writing computer I'd been using while staying with Mom died, albeit not without giving me signs for several days that the hard drive was about to expire. That's not the happy news; the happy news is that the literal day after this happened, an old friend of mine sent me a message asking me if I needed a new computer. It turns out that her father has a hobby of restoring old computers, and had some he wanted to get out of his basement. How much? I asked. Nothing, she told me - he just wanted them out of his basement. :)
So I paid them a visit over the weekend, including dinner and many lovins of their dog Sunny Ann, and took home an HP desktop (desktop being my preference), a monitor, and a Chromebook for good measure. None of them, they warned me, were close to new - but then again the computer I had been using was from 2008 or something like that, and my Writing Computer at home is rather older than that. When I mentioned this to my friend's Dad he said, "These aren't that old."
It turns out that the desktop doesn't have working wireless access (after just getting the wireless restored at Mom's house not long before) - which I'm sure is a simple fix, but I quickly decided I wasn't really interested in fixing it. I get more writing done that way.
(Admittedly I haven't gotten a whole lot of writing done since then, but that doesn't have anything to do with the computer. Other things keep shoving in on the one day a week I have to write lately. But I'm optimistic about being able to carve out some more writing time this weekend.)
Anyway, more later, hopefully sooner than another few weeks.
I also noticed that nearly all of your "Top LJ Entries" at the point when I logged in a few moments ago were several years old.
* * *
In happier news closer to home, the writing computer I'd been using while staying with Mom died, albeit not without giving me signs for several days that the hard drive was about to expire. That's not the happy news; the happy news is that the literal day after this happened, an old friend of mine sent me a message asking me if I needed a new computer. It turns out that her father has a hobby of restoring old computers, and had some he wanted to get out of his basement. How much? I asked. Nothing, she told me - he just wanted them out of his basement. :)
So I paid them a visit over the weekend, including dinner and many lovins of their dog Sunny Ann, and took home an HP desktop (desktop being my preference), a monitor, and a Chromebook for good measure. None of them, they warned me, were close to new - but then again the computer I had been using was from 2008 or something like that, and my Writing Computer at home is rather older than that. When I mentioned this to my friend's Dad he said, "These aren't that old."
It turns out that the desktop doesn't have working wireless access (after just getting the wireless restored at Mom's house not long before) - which I'm sure is a simple fix, but I quickly decided I wasn't really interested in fixing it. I get more writing done that way.
(Admittedly I haven't gotten a whole lot of writing done since then, but that doesn't have anything to do with the computer. Other things keep shoving in on the one day a week I have to write lately. But I'm optimistic about being able to carve out some more writing time this weekend.)
Anyway, more later, hopefully sooner than another few weeks.