a status report
Jun. 28th, 2009 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ontologyStatus of the house: AHHH RUN RUN PACK WASH CLEAN PACK MORE oh help. Status of my bedroom: oh help. There's a suitcase in the middle of the floor, mostly packed, but draped over with things. My bed is a nest of library books and blankets and the long chequered jacket I shed after church this morning. Oh, and a cat. Status of my brain: ...
Ah, yes: we leave on Tuesday evening, and I am still holding out a vague and trembling hope that the computer speakers I ordered from Amazon will arrive by then, but seeing as they haven't shipped yet... *sigh* Not pleased: they were in stock and still haven't shipped. Which is absurd. In better things-that-came-for-me-in-the-post news, new power cord came the other day to replace the one that went bad on me after a month, internet tells me that this is a common Dell problem. (Before you rag on Dell, I've really enjoyed this computer other than that, and some other things that really weren't its fault.) It's been powering but not charging the battery, which has made things very irritating. At first I thought this one didn't work either, but I reckon it had to get acquainted with Yvaine first, because after a day or so of not-working, it suddenly... has been. I've tested it multiple times: and oh I am so happy. Going on holiday with a laptop that must be plugged in at all times would have been beyond frustrating.
Abandoned Battlestar Galactica for two days to re-read War for the Oaks, and oh my oh my, I had almost forgotten how much I adore that book. It makes me happy and hits so many of my storytelling buttons so very well. If my first novel turns out anywhere near as marvellous, I will be well satisfied. (Okay, no I won't: I'm a writer, and we are notoriously never satisfied with our own work.) Now sucked back into space, and ack so much tensionnnnn. ADMIRAL CAIN I LOATHE YOU SO MUCH. Adama, you continue to get awesomer.
I saw some photographs of the house we'll be staying in in Cape Breton, and it looks exactly like something out of L.M. Montgomery. ♥! It's on several acres of property, and there's a lake near the house with a dock for swimming, and great masses of trees... My one regret is that I couldn't afford a nicer camera before this holiday. Alas.
Ah, yes: we leave on Tuesday evening, and I am still holding out a vague and trembling hope that the computer speakers I ordered from Amazon will arrive by then, but seeing as they haven't shipped yet... *sigh* Not pleased: they were in stock and still haven't shipped. Which is absurd. In better things-that-came-for-me-in-the-post news, new power cord came the other day to replace the one that went bad on me after a month, internet tells me that this is a common Dell problem. (Before you rag on Dell, I've really enjoyed this computer other than that, and some other things that really weren't its fault.) It's been powering but not charging the battery, which has made things very irritating. At first I thought this one didn't work either, but I reckon it had to get acquainted with Yvaine first, because after a day or so of not-working, it suddenly... has been. I've tested it multiple times: and oh I am so happy. Going on holiday with a laptop that must be plugged in at all times would have been beyond frustrating.
Abandoned Battlestar Galactica for two days to re-read War for the Oaks, and oh my oh my, I had almost forgotten how much I adore that book. It makes me happy and hits so many of my storytelling buttons so very well. If my first novel turns out anywhere near as marvellous, I will be well satisfied. (Okay, no I won't: I'm a writer, and we are notoriously never satisfied with our own work.) Now sucked back into space, and ack so much tensionnnnn. ADMIRAL CAIN I LOATHE YOU SO MUCH. Adama, you continue to get awesomer.
I saw some photographs of the house we'll be staying in in Cape Breton, and it looks exactly like something out of L.M. Montgomery. ♥! It's on several acres of property, and there's a lake near the house with a dock for swimming, and great masses of trees... My one regret is that I couldn't afford a nicer camera before this holiday. Alas.
