I'm posting because I can - Toys is at his night class, and I'm home alone, drinking a beer and thinking about Buffyfic. About reading it, and how I haven't written it in an age, although I've thought about it a lot. (In that context, the news about Writercon happening for reals next year struck me as kind of depressing - at this juncture, since I' ( Read more... )

A Belated Very Happy Birthday to avrelia!!It never fails: I can have little or nothing on my social and professional calendar for months, and then suddenly, it all goes batshit at once. The good news is, I have a new job, starting today. Plus a fair amount of freelance coming in. The bad news is, it's messing with my fic writing. And just when it was ( Read more... )

I've missed so many birthdays, it's honestly embarrassing: botias, spikes_heart, pukajen, romanyg, dessert_first, pfeifferpack, lillianmorgan, ascian3, rikko_oko.... Very Happy Belated Birthdays to you all, and hopes for a great year ahead.

Good Christ, I'm behind on everything. I haven't even read any of the Bring Back the Porn Day entries on InsaneJournal. Something's clearly wrong with the world. Or I've just been too busy. Or ( Read more... )

Toys's Computer is Back From the Dead.

Believe it! The entire operation involved:

• Me, riding the bus to CompUSA and picking up an external hard drive to back up all the data on the dead machine. It wouldn't start up at all, but like a good Apple machine in zombie mode, would at least boot up in hard disc mode ( Read more... )

A Very Happy Birthday to beanbeans!!The final word is in on Toys's computer - DOA. I have run of the laptop for a few hours because he's in class right now, but otherwise I'll probably be pretty absent here on LJ until we get some kind of solution. It goes without saying that the mood in our household is a bit grim. Toys is practically chewed up with stress ( Read more... )

Boy, today has been a not-good day. Actually, it's been a not-good week, but today was the kicker ( Read more... )