i’ve not yet tried posting from my laptop yet. hopefully this will post properly. i’m running Ubuntu-flavored Linux on an old clamshell iBook and there are a few quirky things on here. for example, i’ve never been able to get a wireless connection so am therefore tethered to ye old ethernet cable. i also have the inability to run anything involving a flash plugin. that means no youtube, which is not a bad thing as i am supposed to be using this as a writing machine (yes, blog posts count) and not playing too much on the intarwebs. research and writing only for this little laptop, and i love the fact that it still works. *hugs laptop*
to continue my little geek theme here, i visited the most awesomest store today. microcenter just opened up and we got free flash drives. i was thrilled when i got home and found that the little drive was actually recognized by my laptop. it’s been the missing piece of that little puzzle for a long time now, and the solution was free!
the store rocked as well. there’s a ‘knowledge bar’ (that’s the pc equivelent of a genius bar for you mac people) and lots of pretty lcd monitors on display. the back of the store is absolute geek nirvana. they’ve got all the ‘build it yourself’ stuff i could ever want. bulk hard drives (huzzah for less packaging!), power supplies, cooling fans, towers, a wall of mother boards. i could go on here, but i think you get the picture. CompUSA is going out of business and if this is what i get for a replacement, i couldn’t be happier. *wheee*
after some more running around, i came home and settled in to watch ‘Cast Away’. wow. awesome, awesome movie. i know i’m a bit late getting on the boat for this one, but i finally got around to seeing it.
also watched ‘A Very Long Engagement’ last night. i hadn’t realized that it was directed by the same man that did ‘Amelie’. the style was very much there and many of the same actors as well, but my what a different story. it was lovely and sad, with such a non-american style ending. THIS is why i want to learn french. i know they were saying things differently than what was in the subtitles and it was so very frustrating.
there are three reasons i want to take that french class at the local community ‘adult school’:
1. because i’m tired of being a stupid, monolingual american.
2. so i can read all of that lovely, non-translated crusades stuff.
3. watching Amelie with the subtitles turned off!
okay. i almost completely forgot to post about last night’s wonderful bookstore extraveganza and the subsequent creative activities. we have one of the biggest barnes & noble’s in the country about a half hour from the house. they are so big that the carry an entire used bookstore at the back of the main store. wonderful deals are to be had back there.
used book purchases were as follows:
dune messiah – frank herbert
aye, and gomorrah – samuel r delany
the gormenghast trilogy (from the sixties, nice and stinky!) – mervyn peake
firebirds – a sci-fi/fantasy anthology with a charles vess comic inside
i also got two new books. both are writing prompt books:
3 am epiphany – brian kitely
the write brain workbook – bonnie neubauer
this afternoon i sat down with the 3 am book and wrote a short story off one of the prompts. it was actually fun. i relaxed and it didn’t have all this pressure on it that i’ve been putting on my other writing. it did exactly what i needed it to do. i hope this continues.
i think what i might do for now is keep writing with the prompts and see where that takes me while at the same time doing some of that pure worldbuilding stuff i need to do so that when i’m ready i can apply what i’ve learned from the prompts to the world i’ve created.
sounds like a plan, i’m going to get back to it.
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