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It's so weird trying to post this frequently! I feel like I'm really boring. XD Blah blah blah real life, etc. But I'm going to keep trying.
So, we heard back about the house we liked, and the inspection went well and the other buyers are proceeding. Which. Bah. He'll let us know if anything goes astray, but otherwise, it's out. I'm pretty disappointed, especially when I think of how excited J got when we were looking at it. He seems pretty OK with it, but it's frustrating. I feel like I lost us this house because I procrastinated so much on asking about it because I was afraid it was going to be too expensive. I guess now we know, but too late this time.
I did email the real estate agent and ask to look at some other houses that might be OK. We'll see if either is anything that we're interested in. The one had all the old owner's stuff in it when the pictures were taken, although it looks like they were in the process of moving it all out, so I have a hard time envisioning it. Looks like the owners were older people, given the decorating sense. But maybe it'll be easier to get an idea of the house when we actually look at it. Pictures can be so hard to parse.
I finally finished listening to A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan yesterday. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I would. Part of the problem was that I was listening on my iPhone, using the Apple music app, and it would not hold onto my place. So I was constantly refinding my spot. When you're listening to an audio file that's about 9 hours long, that's extremely frustrating. I'm thinking I may just read the next book, in order to give it a better shot. When things were working out, I did enjoy listening to it. I'm very into the Victorian/Regency/historical fantasy right now, so that probably helped.
I started listening to Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David this afternoon. It's a GraphicAudio (I think?), so instead of just being one person, there are multiple voice actors and sound effects and stuff. So far, I'm finding it kind of distracting, but I want to give it a shot and see if I get used to it.
Only other thing today of interest is that it seems I'm on the verge of translating manga again. I thought about finding a group to translate with a few months ago, but ended up overwhelmed by my apathy toward actually choosing something to translate. Recently, out of the blue, I got an email from Mangahelpers asking if I'd be interested translating under a revenue-sharing scheme. I did something similar with DMG several years ago. It didn't go great with DMG, and ended up leaving when I went back to school. But I'm going to give Mangahelpers a shot. I don't expect to get a lot of money out of it or anything, but I've been wanting to translate, and this seems like a good chance to do so. I got my revenue sharing percentages today, and they're a bit higher than I got from DMG, which is nice. And so far as I can see, there aren't as many restrictions on getting what little money you earn, which was a huge problem with DMG. Also, I'm kind of excited about the series I'm going to translate. It sounds really fun. It's shoujo, so it should be pretty easy. I'm kind of excited to start, although I realize it could easily be as big of a bust as DMG was. Either way, it'll be more Japanese practice for me, which is a huge plus.
So, we heard back about the house we liked, and the inspection went well and the other buyers are proceeding. Which. Bah. He'll let us know if anything goes astray, but otherwise, it's out. I'm pretty disappointed, especially when I think of how excited J got when we were looking at it. He seems pretty OK with it, but it's frustrating. I feel like I lost us this house because I procrastinated so much on asking about it because I was afraid it was going to be too expensive. I guess now we know, but too late this time.
I did email the real estate agent and ask to look at some other houses that might be OK. We'll see if either is anything that we're interested in. The one had all the old owner's stuff in it when the pictures were taken, although it looks like they were in the process of moving it all out, so I have a hard time envisioning it. Looks like the owners were older people, given the decorating sense. But maybe it'll be easier to get an idea of the house when we actually look at it. Pictures can be so hard to parse.
I finally finished listening to A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan yesterday. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I would. Part of the problem was that I was listening on my iPhone, using the Apple music app, and it would not hold onto my place. So I was constantly refinding my spot. When you're listening to an audio file that's about 9 hours long, that's extremely frustrating. I'm thinking I may just read the next book, in order to give it a better shot. When things were working out, I did enjoy listening to it. I'm very into the Victorian/Regency/historical fantasy right now, so that probably helped.
I started listening to Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David this afternoon. It's a GraphicAudio (I think?), so instead of just being one person, there are multiple voice actors and sound effects and stuff. So far, I'm finding it kind of distracting, but I want to give it a shot and see if I get used to it.
Only other thing today of interest is that it seems I'm on the verge of translating manga again. I thought about finding a group to translate with a few months ago, but ended up overwhelmed by my apathy toward actually choosing something to translate. Recently, out of the blue, I got an email from Mangahelpers asking if I'd be interested translating under a revenue-sharing scheme. I did something similar with DMG several years ago. It didn't go great with DMG, and ended up leaving when I went back to school. But I'm going to give Mangahelpers a shot. I don't expect to get a lot of money out of it or anything, but I've been wanting to translate, and this seems like a good chance to do so. I got my revenue sharing percentages today, and they're a bit higher than I got from DMG, which is nice. And so far as I can see, there aren't as many restrictions on getting what little money you earn, which was a huge problem with DMG. Also, I'm kind of excited about the series I'm going to translate. It sounds really fun. It's shoujo, so it should be pretty easy. I'm kind of excited to start, although I realize it could easily be as big of a bust as DMG was. Either way, it'll be more Japanese practice for me, which is a huge plus.