Within just a day, I’ve had the pleasure of hauling out my Thunderbirds knowledge (with all the attendant books and other paraphernalia) to help a couple of fellow fanfic writers and personal friends. It was certainly fun, especially all the stuff about Alan Tracy’s educational background. Add to this my posting the first chapter of one of my short ( Read more... )

Been working on coding things for my personal fiction site. I’ve finished and posted Mosaic - though that will be updated when the muse strikes - and I’m working on The White Winds. There’s still lots to do, but I’m almost halfway through the chapter formatting. I’ve managed to get it down to a routine. Open the .txt files, put in the chapter ( Read more... )

I got to bed at a relatively decent hour, but the muggy warmth of the room, my feet buzzing in pain, and worries about finances all conspired to keep me from sleeping any solid length of time today. So, I finally got up, took the dog out, and made sure my stories were all available on the family jumpdrive.

Plan for the day, for as long as I can ( Read more... )

partly_bouncy sent me a link last evening, saying that it might affect me directly. Boy, was she right! The link is here, and the gist of it is that Microsoft will be shedding their MSN Groups as of February, 2009. They'll be launching a new "social networking" service called Windows Live Groups in November, but existing MSN Groups won't be segued over to the ( Read more... )

I've been in a baking for a couple of days now. Yesterday, it was banana bread, just to use up the very overripe bananas that were sitting on the counter. Two loaves, one a bit too heavy on the walnuts. Then I made chocolate chip cookie dough, which I baked up today (I'm of the opinion that cookie dough like this needs to congeal in the fridge in ( Read more... )

(I drafted this entry before the events of September 8. See the relevant post for more details on that. Didn't want people connecting the two... which shows my state of mind since, I think.)

"That's the main thing I've found with fan-created sites; as real life closes in, the site suffers because, let's face it, real life trumps fan-stuff every time ( Read more... )

And I suppose there's proof of that from time to time. Example:

~Friday, one of my IR:TNP managers was dumped by her boyfriend of 2.5 years, just as they were about to move into an apartment together.

Then:

~Saturday, another of my IR:TNP managers crashed her van. No one hurt, but van needs repairs in the same spot it needed them before.

And, to cap it ( Read more... )

The Girl got her beginner's permit today. She needed it by tomorrow for Driver's Ed, so when she got home from school, we boogied on up to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles so she could take the "Knowledge Test". I'd already printed out the necessary forms and had filled in (with typing where possible) the information. Before we left, we double-checked ( Read more... )

The forum is down again, and this time, so is the gallery. Server 500 and 404 errors, just like before. It started yesterday with a short downtime, and it seemed to do the same today at first... but now it's been down most of the day. I had started moving some of the suggestions over to the mirror site before it went down solid, and I know Liz was ( Read more... )

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

I did some Google-fu on IR:TNP because a friend said she had, and couldn't find anything. The first things that came up were my last two lj posts on the subject, along with some links about the RP, and lots of info on the DNA material called IR tnp. I cruised through the various mentions, and came on an lj ( Read more... )