Unrelated rambly things
Apr. 16th, 2010 08:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marinessGrr. Last night I was caught up in a writing bit, in that rare moment of oh, this is going really well and people will actually love me and hee hee hee (I can't speak for other writers, but the vast majority of the time I think that my work is crap, stuff that would make readers double over in pain just standing in the vicinity, and we are not even going to discuss what my mind thinks of as "punctuation" and what the rest of you would consider torture of innocent commas that appear when I'm just putting down words. As it happens, I have now woken up and realized that actually, what I wrote last night was crap, and I mean, crap, really really awful stuff, and if anyone sees it that person will never ever speak to me again out of sheer embarrassment/horror and start quietly whispering, any way we can stop her from writing any more and inflicting this pain on the world? Writing is like that. Yes, sometimes I've been known to write nice clear copy and dash off a story or a poem that immediately works, where all the commas have decided to obey, presumably in a desperate attempt to avoid future torture later. Where was I?) I realized, auugh, I have things I must do tomorrow, I must sleep, must sleep, must sleep....only to find, of course, that I couldn't get to sleep. So all grouchy now, not helped by the irritating sound of leafblowers, which need to be banned from the planet and preferably from the universe if we can't find a way to make them quieter.
Meanwhile, I've finally upgraded to Windows 7, and I have to give Microsoft credit for one thing: this is the first new Microsoft operating system in, well, ever, where I have not, so far, found myself yelling at the screen "WAIT! WHERE DID YOU MOVE THAT FUNCTION?!?" or felt that I needed to learn to reuse the system; it's probably the easiest adjustment I've had to make since first getting introduced to Windows 3.1 way back when (in computer terms) which was such a delightful change from DOS whatever version we were using that I was more than happy to make any change. Also, so far, the computer hasn't frozen, so, plus. We'll see; I don't think a single day of use is enough to judge an operating system.
Meanwhile meanwhile, I've been watching the pictures of the Iceland volcano in awe. (The Guardian has nicer sunset pictures here, and the Boston Globe has more pictures here.
I did warn you: disorganized thoughts.
Meanwhile, I've finally upgraded to Windows 7, and I have to give Microsoft credit for one thing: this is the first new Microsoft operating system in, well, ever, where I have not, so far, found myself yelling at the screen "WAIT! WHERE DID YOU MOVE THAT FUNCTION?!?" or felt that I needed to learn to reuse the system; it's probably the easiest adjustment I've had to make since first getting introduced to Windows 3.1 way back when (in computer terms) which was such a delightful change from DOS whatever version we were using that I was more than happy to make any change. Also, so far, the computer hasn't frozen, so, plus. We'll see; I don't think a single day of use is enough to judge an operating system.
Meanwhile meanwhile, I've been watching the pictures of the Iceland volcano in awe. (The Guardian has nicer sunset pictures here, and the Boston Globe has more pictures here.
I did warn you: disorganized thoughts.