Ruby! And Temeraire! :D
I don't know if any of you will have noticed, but I have been somewhat of the fail when it comes to following my friendslist the past few days. So. Um. Apologies if I've missed anything important! I have skimmed most entries, but I haven't really done any commenting. Not that I comment all that much anyway, so maybe you haven't noticed. But I thought I would mention just in case.
See, I started teaching myself Ruby (ETA: It seems like I confused everyone by not explaining what Ruby is. Way to go, me! *facepalms* Ruby is a programming language), and I have never done any programming before. And I sometimes get pretty, um, absorbed when I've just started new things. So that kind of ate all of my free time for a few of days, until the shiniest of the shiny!new had worn off. (I'm half tempted to copy and paste chunks of very basic Ruby code here point out what I have been doing, but that would probably be incredibly boring, so I shall spare you.)
Then the day before yesterday my computer was playing up, and I got kind of paranoid because I haven't backed up my hard drive recently, so I was all 'Must copy my vid collection to external hard drive before shutting down!!!' (yes, my vid collection is the thing I was most frightened for. I have vids that are not longer available do download in there! I have not made a back up since before I started collecting vids seriously! *distressed hands*) and as my external hard drive is wireless and the information had to transfer via the wireless network it was sloooooooow. It took, like, seven hours. Although to be fair, my vid collection is just over 10GB big now (Ha! I remember back when I was a baby vid fan, reading about someone who had 300 vids on their external hard drive, and I was like '300?! O__O'. Now I have around 310-320 myself, and would not actually be surprised if that doubled over the next year and a half or so. My obsessiveness. Let me show you it).
As I didn't want to slow it down further by using the network for surfing the web at the same time, I just let my computer be for the rest of the evening, but! Without the internet to distract me I managed to focus on reading actual books for more than five minutes! I have now finished Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik! \o/ I think I may even have liked it better than I liked the first book in the series. DRAGONS. <3<3<3 I know a few of my flisters are reading/have read the series, and Temeraire and Laurence are really settling in to the special part of my heart for really awesome fictional people (dragons are people too!) now, so if anyone feels like sharing some Temeraire squee with me, I am in the right mood for it. *g*
See, I started teaching myself Ruby (ETA: It seems like I confused everyone by not explaining what Ruby is. Way to go, me! *facepalms* Ruby is a programming language), and I have never done any programming before. And I sometimes get pretty, um, absorbed when I've just started new things. So that kind of ate all of my free time for a few of days, until the shiniest of the shiny!new had worn off. (I'm half tempted to copy and paste chunks of very basic Ruby code here point out what I have been doing, but that would probably be incredibly boring, so I shall spare you.)
Then the day before yesterday my computer was playing up, and I got kind of paranoid because I haven't backed up my hard drive recently, so I was all 'Must copy my vid collection to external hard drive before shutting down!!!' (yes, my vid collection is the thing I was most frightened for. I have vids that are not longer available do download in there! I have not made a back up since before I started collecting vids seriously! *distressed hands*) and as my external hard drive is wireless and the information had to transfer via the wireless network it was sloooooooow. It took, like, seven hours. Although to be fair, my vid collection is just over 10GB big now (Ha! I remember back when I was a baby vid fan, reading about someone who had 300 vids on their external hard drive, and I was like '300?! O__O'. Now I have around 310-320 myself, and would not actually be surprised if that doubled over the next year and a half or so. My obsessiveness. Let me show you it).
As I didn't want to slow it down further by using the network for surfing the web at the same time, I just let my computer be for the rest of the evening, but! Without the internet to distract me I managed to focus on reading actual books for more than five minutes! I have now finished Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik! \o/ I think I may even have liked it better than I liked the first book in the series. DRAGONS. <3<3<3 I know a few of my flisters are reading/have read the series, and Temeraire and Laurence are really settling in to the special part of my heart for really awesome fictional people (dragons are people too!) now, so if anyone feels like sharing some Temeraire squee with me, I am in the right mood for it. *g*