Laptops and WiPs and RAGE, oh my!
So I got a message from my bank saying to call because they were "investigating charges" on my card. After spending forever and a day on hold with every department still working after five they told me that there was "suspicious activity" - although they couldn't tell me what the activity was - and that the card was deactivated.
This is the second time they've done this this year. I'm glad they're trying to keep my account secure and all and getting the new card isn't a huge deal, but my God is it a pain to have to change the card number on all my online accounts. Bah!
And in other Bah! news, my laptop is back! \o/ Still with the same problem! *sigh* After the diagnostics the techs decided the problem really was with the charger, so I'm glad it didn't turn out to be a battery or motherboard issue after all, but I don't understand why if they had a charger that worked (and they did give it back charged) they couldn't have one there for me to buy when I came to pick the laptop up. I want to give you my money, people! Why do you not want my money?
My life, so hard.
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When I got my laptop back last night I went through my old WiP folder and found the Sherlock Holmes stories I'd started back when I first got into the Granada series. One in particular I've been poking; now I'm probably never going to finish this story - it would easily be novel length and um, I don't remember how the plot winds up any more. It centered around one of Moran's jailed lieutenants using a twin switch to escape the gallows and immediately getting to making Holmes' life a living hell. Irene got dragged in because her husband Godfrey had some old business dealings with the lieutenant and the connection spurred him to follow the case, of course resulting in Irene jumping in. (my head!canon for Irene/Holmes is a more what-might-have-been sort of love rather than a wild passionate thing, because does Holmes ever not do wild passion and Irene has far too much sense for that sort of thing. Soul mates who will always be happiest at a courteous distance.)
Anyway, there's a scene in this between Irene and Holmes after Watson gets shot (because I'm writing this, of course someone's getting shot) that I think turned out really well. Because of the way the story was structured, story notes by Watson and diary entries by Irene, even if the rest of the opus never comes to light I think with some polish I could frame this scene as its own thing, an excerpt of the famous, long thought lost Irene Adler diary finally come to light.
Would anyone be interested in this? /idle thoughts.
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How is it the 16th already? How?! Give me back my summer!
This is the second time they've done this this year. I'm glad they're trying to keep my account secure and all and getting the new card isn't a huge deal, but my God is it a pain to have to change the card number on all my online accounts. Bah!
And in other Bah! news, my laptop is back! \o/ Still with the same problem! *sigh* After the diagnostics the techs decided the problem really was with the charger, so I'm glad it didn't turn out to be a battery or motherboard issue after all, but I don't understand why if they had a charger that worked (and they did give it back charged) they couldn't have one there for me to buy when I came to pick the laptop up. I want to give you my money, people! Why do you not want my money?
My life, so hard.
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When I got my laptop back last night I went through my old WiP folder and found the Sherlock Holmes stories I'd started back when I first got into the Granada series. One in particular I've been poking; now I'm probably never going to finish this story - it would easily be novel length and um, I don't remember how the plot winds up any more. It centered around one of Moran's jailed lieutenants using a twin switch to escape the gallows and immediately getting to making Holmes' life a living hell. Irene got dragged in because her husband Godfrey had some old business dealings with the lieutenant and the connection spurred him to follow the case, of course resulting in Irene jumping in. (my head!canon for Irene/Holmes is a more what-might-have-been sort of love rather than a wild passionate thing, because does Holmes ever not do wild passion and Irene has far too much sense for that sort of thing. Soul mates who will always be happiest at a courteous distance.)
Anyway, there's a scene in this between Irene and Holmes after Watson gets shot (because I'm writing this, of course someone's getting shot) that I think turned out really well. Because of the way the story was structured, story notes by Watson and diary entries by Irene, even if the rest of the opus never comes to light I think with some polish I could frame this scene as its own thing, an excerpt of the famous, long thought lost Irene Adler diary finally come to light.
Would anyone be interested in this? /idle thoughts.
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How is it the 16th already? How?! Give me back my summer!