Been pretty preoccupied
Copied from another journal.
The past couple weeks have been filled mostly with writing my contest entry for the end of December. So far this has been proving a challenge in many unforeseen ways, such as the flash drive crash of last week and the fact that the sucker is proving a lot longer than I thought it was going to be.
Ten thousand words, I told myself before I started. That's it, that's all you're going to limit yourself to. You have too many things to do with work, other writing and the holidays. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the cliche 'the best plans of mice and men so often go astray,' was made for occasions like this. Part one alone is roughly twenty-five thousand words now and climbing. Thankfully, today is hopefully going to be the day where I put that one to bed and get started on part two. When I have days off I try for nine thousand words in a sitting. But since this is going to have a projected four parts, I'm going to need to start taking nights after I get home from work to get this done, too.
As far as editing goes, I won't have much time for it, so chances are it's going to be roughly done when I do manage to finish. I think as long as I get the story done and people get the main gist of it, I'll be happy.
This does mean I'll be absent from AIM for a bit as well as other 'live' forms of communication. I will still be around to check e-mail and other such things, so if you need something or would like to say hello, drop me a note on here, or an e-mail if you know the address. =P
And goody, work is going to be more and more a pain in the neck until the holidays are over. I'm getting to loathe the holidays as a whole because of that place. Ugh.
I've been thinking of getting my parents a used laptop so they can do their own typing/web-surfing without using my stuff or asking me. When we upgraded to Verizon we got a wireless modem that the installer guy told us could access the internet from anywhere in the house providing the computer we were using had the wireless ability. Now that I'm looking at some of these things, I see some have 'wireless capability' and some have Wi-Fi. I'm not sure if there's a difference or even if the wireless modem I have can support those things if I buy the laptop, or if I need to go through Verizon and get another card or something specifically so I can connect to their service. Once I have that ironed out, I'll see what I can do as far as making a purchase.
Halloween pictures have arrived and they're, well. The effect is missed when you don't see it in person. At best they need resizing and some shrinking down. I only have a few of them and they're mostly goofy. I didn't get time to pose and my friend got bored after taking like, three. They won't be going up here, so e-mails are necessary if you're that morbidly curious.
Man, I hope I finish this story in time... *Bites fingernails*
The past couple weeks have been filled mostly with writing my contest entry for the end of December. So far this has been proving a challenge in many unforeseen ways, such as the flash drive crash of last week and the fact that the sucker is proving a lot longer than I thought it was going to be.
Ten thousand words, I told myself before I started. That's it, that's all you're going to limit yourself to. You have too many things to do with work, other writing and the holidays. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the cliche 'the best plans of mice and men so often go astray,' was made for occasions like this. Part one alone is roughly twenty-five thousand words now and climbing. Thankfully, today is hopefully going to be the day where I put that one to bed and get started on part two. When I have days off I try for nine thousand words in a sitting. But since this is going to have a projected four parts, I'm going to need to start taking nights after I get home from work to get this done, too.
As far as editing goes, I won't have much time for it, so chances are it's going to be roughly done when I do manage to finish. I think as long as I get the story done and people get the main gist of it, I'll be happy.
This does mean I'll be absent from AIM for a bit as well as other 'live' forms of communication. I will still be around to check e-mail and other such things, so if you need something or would like to say hello, drop me a note on here, or an e-mail if you know the address. =P
And goody, work is going to be more and more a pain in the neck until the holidays are over. I'm getting to loathe the holidays as a whole because of that place. Ugh.
I've been thinking of getting my parents a used laptop so they can do their own typing/web-surfing without using my stuff or asking me. When we upgraded to Verizon we got a wireless modem that the installer guy told us could access the internet from anywhere in the house providing the computer we were using had the wireless ability. Now that I'm looking at some of these things, I see some have 'wireless capability' and some have Wi-Fi. I'm not sure if there's a difference or even if the wireless modem I have can support those things if I buy the laptop, or if I need to go through Verizon and get another card or something specifically so I can connect to their service. Once I have that ironed out, I'll see what I can do as far as making a purchase.
Halloween pictures have arrived and they're, well. The effect is missed when you don't see it in person. At best they need resizing and some shrinking down. I only have a few of them and they're mostly goofy. I didn't get time to pose and my friend got bored after taking like, three. They won't be going up here, so e-mails are necessary if you're that morbidly curious.
Man, I hope I finish this story in time... *Bites fingernails*