Laptop says: It's getting dark, so dark...
Family reunion last weekend and Matt's back home this weekend...
So, I'm still tired.
And I haven't gotten one damned creative thing done this weekend. Largely, due to my genius plan of taking a nap Thursday evening (which resulted in my sleeping from 8:00 to 2:30 a.m. Friday morning). And my need to get groceries (so I don't starve) and do some cleaning (so I don't live in filth) on Friday, which meant most of Friday was spent on mundane matters.
Matt got back home Friday evening and the two of us conked out around 10 and slept straight through to this morning. And today consisted of some running around but mostly staying ensconced in the apartment and spending time together.
I'm also down one computer, now, which [somewhat] affects my writing output, but really not to a degree that I should bother mentioning it, so I don't know why I am... Ah, yeah, anyway.
I believe the inverter has gone out on my laptop. The screen is black when it boots up (save for the two second flash of the blue Dell logo at the beginning). But I tried the flash light test (after Googling and reading about someone else having the problem with the same model) and can see the Windows logos and my desktop when I shine the light directly on the screen.
So...I'm going to try replacing the inverter.
I had mentioned getting a new laptop this year. Possibly. But...I like my laptop.
We work well together.
So I'm (or we're, because I might actually make Matt pull out the delicate part, just because) going to try curing her first.
And, if that doesn't work, I'll buy a new one and make shiny jewelry things (or something) out of its monitor innards. (And then I'll always have part of her with me... Does this sound creepy? Good. That's what I was going for.)
No writing, thus far, this weekend. Maybe tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
Though, it must be said that I wrote a 100 word Spock/Nyota fic a couple days ago. (Because I was bored and it was quick and a bit challenging.)
Fanfiction is writer's crack; I'm convinced. It's just so damned fun to see if I can, at all, capture the personality of a character not my own.
I really thought I was out of the desire to play in other people's sand boxes...but I blame Matt and JJ Abrams for dragging me into Star Trek...
And, that's what's going on in my life at this moment.
I think I'm going to grab the screwdriver and open my poor laptop monitor up to double check the number on the inverter. (It's terrible. I have a great desktop set up and I have a functioning--possibly glitchy/broken battery, but it works on AC power--netbook...but I can't help feeling like I'm missing something since my laptop's out of commission.)
So, I'm still tired.
And I haven't gotten one damned creative thing done this weekend. Largely, due to my genius plan of taking a nap Thursday evening (which resulted in my sleeping from 8:00 to 2:30 a.m. Friday morning). And my need to get groceries (so I don't starve) and do some cleaning (so I don't live in filth) on Friday, which meant most of Friday was spent on mundane matters.
Matt got back home Friday evening and the two of us conked out around 10 and slept straight through to this morning. And today consisted of some running around but mostly staying ensconced in the apartment and spending time together.
I'm also down one computer, now, which [somewhat] affects my writing output, but really not to a degree that I should bother mentioning it, so I don't know why I am... Ah, yeah, anyway.
I believe the inverter has gone out on my laptop. The screen is black when it boots up (save for the two second flash of the blue Dell logo at the beginning). But I tried the flash light test (after Googling and reading about someone else having the problem with the same model) and can see the Windows logos and my desktop when I shine the light directly on the screen.
So...I'm going to try replacing the inverter.
I had mentioned getting a new laptop this year. Possibly. But...I like my laptop.
We work well together.
So I'm (or we're, because I might actually make Matt pull out the delicate part, just because) going to try curing her first.
And, if that doesn't work, I'll buy a new one and make shiny jewelry things (or something) out of its monitor innards. (And then I'll always have part of her with me... Does this sound creepy? Good. That's what I was going for.)
No writing, thus far, this weekend. Maybe tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
Though, it must be said that I wrote a 100 word Spock/Nyota fic a couple days ago. (Because I was bored and it was quick and a bit challenging.)
Fanfiction is writer's crack; I'm convinced. It's just so damned fun to see if I can, at all, capture the personality of a character not my own.
I really thought I was out of the desire to play in other people's sand boxes...but I blame Matt and JJ Abrams for dragging me into Star Trek...
And, that's what's going on in my life at this moment.
I think I'm going to grab the screwdriver and open my poor laptop monitor up to double check the number on the inverter. (It's terrible. I have a great desktop set up and I have a functioning--possibly glitchy/broken battery, but it works on AC power--netbook...but I can't help feeling like I'm missing something since my laptop's out of commission.)