New Year, new laptop...

[byslantedlight]

I did it - I went out and bought a new laptop today, and the only thing I'm not keen on about it so far (apart from Windows 7 *sighs*) is that the up-down-sideways keys are the teeniest ones on the keyboard, and it's going to take some practice until I stop missing them... Oh, and they always take away programmes that you've just got used to using

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[hutchynstarsk]

I can hardly wait till we can see more Sherlock in the US! :D
Glad your laptop woes are better with a new machine.

[hutchynstarsk]

Oh, I was going to wait till it runs on TV. Those DVDs are EXPENSIVE! *g

But hey, maybe I'll get desperate (and have the money)... :)

[alicambs]

I'm already desperately trying to avoid spoilers and there's two episodes to go yet! I think I'd be driven made waiting for NZ TV to get Sherlock, probably mid winter (July/August) going by the series one showing.

[solosundance]

Hee, you went for another vaio! I quite like mine - although I don't use it that much (except in Derbyshire!). Agewise it must be coming up for its sleep of the cannot-turn-on-anymore. Ergh, I hate that sleep - I was guilty at how bad I felt when my desktop went into terminal snooze. I'm sure you were better organized than me and so didn't have any disappearance of the files that were not backed up to cope with! It *is* fun getting new shiny though :D

Not seen Sherlock yet - son says it was ace.

[byslantedlight]

I did go for another Vaio, I like them! And the keyboard really is ever so good (better than on old Vaio, too...) I actually did manage to be pretty organised about collecting up my files and all, because I had warning that it was all going wrong. Even so I didn't quite manage to catch them all, and it's only okay cos I actually had backed up the last few folders of photos ages before onto CD... I just need to replace all the programmes I had now, and some have been updated in ways I didn't like, waaah!

Sherlock was brill, I loved it! *g*

[alicambs]

Deleted as I replied to someone else rahter than commented... doh!

So looking forward to Sherlock, but have to wait until DVDs arrive on 23rd (Amazon promised!). Avoiding spoilers like mad, but it does sound as if most everyone thought it was fantastic.

Bought a HP lap top in the sales here, lovely screen. :-)

[byslantedlight]

Heee for doh! *g*

And wow that the Sherlock dvds are out so fast, I had no idea! It was soooo good! *g*

I looked at HPs yesterday, and I think that keyboard felt okay too - but I think they were ones that threw me by having the touchpad off centre, I can't work out the thinking behind that, cos it just feels all wrong!

I remember your sales... *g*

[moonlightmead]

What do you mean, "whether to carry on with DIALJ"? I am wondering what the next challenge will be already! And "and my own writings"? What? This is just me misreading, surely

[byslantedlight]

Lol - well, no... Dialj has been very little used over the past year or so, which I'm partly putting down to people having life thrown at them in 2011, and partly to the Pros Big Bang taking writers away to concentrate on a single story over a whole year, and partly because once I was discouraged by lack of participation, I lost enthusiasm for it myself, which isn't helpful... I've always said, too, that having too many different challenges in Pros will mean that participation is spread more thinly, and sadly that does seem to have happened. empty_mirrors and I always put alot of effort into posting new challenges at discoveredinalj, with different banners and layouts for each challenge, and individual prompts for people, and so on, and especially now that RL has claimed her as my co-mod, it's alot of work when there's not much participation... There's been a few challenges that closed without any fics or other responses, which... :( So I dunno, I'm havering...

One of the few things that niggled me about Sherlock was actually John declaring I'm not gay - it

[moonlightmead]

God, I am starting to think that I am the kiss of death to things. Things look so cool, and I arrive, and they die. Wail. I had better not go near the Big Bang! Nor a handy local council service - the building housing it will probably fall down at this rate

[byslantedlight]

Lol - do you mean you've kissed Dialj to death? Nah... Though if you do go near the Big Bang I hope it won't stop you writing other things as well!

I'm actually about to take back my Dialj comments below, cos having gone through and done the tagging and sorted the User Info page for last year, there was alot more fic posted than I remembered, though from fewer challenges. It was the year before that was particularly quiet... So really it's just me, probably feeling bad that I didn't write much myself, and projecting... *g*

I didn't time the pool scene, but it kept me watching, so... *g* I'm amused to hear that the Daily Fail has apparently already been on about complaints over the nudity in Sherlock - which I thought was brief, tasteful to the point of non-existence, and sadly all female...

[sc_fossil]

Sherlock was great! Loved it.

Nice laptop. Your typing looks wonderful and the pictures are nice on the new toy. *beg* Enjoy!

[byslantedlight]

Hee - it does have very pretty typing, doesn't it? *g*

And yeay Sherlock!