odosgirl ([info]odosgirl) wrote,
@ 2008-06-26 09:53:00
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Current mood: thoughtful

Nattering ...
My beloved IBM ThinkPad bit the dust a few days ago, but my dear hubby (who is way more of a tech-head than I am) found me a brand-new, lovely little Gateway that I am now breaking in -- and not a moment too soon. I was starting to go nuts without access to my word-processor. I only hope we can salvage all the data from the old IBM hard-drive.

In other news, Ross is now in summer school (two of them actually) most days, but it's time-consuming to ferry him back and forth with the car, so it looks like the summer will be a little frantic, at least while we all get used to the new schedule. At least I can sneak a couple hours of writing time most days, even if my house looks frightful.

Just finished a terrific romance novel, Mine Til Midnight, by Lisa Kleypas, a truly skilled writer who manages to conjure up whole worlds in her books. (I loved her Devil in Winter as well). Her period details (Victorian, usually) are deft and non-intrusive, her bedroom scenes are luscious and inventive, and she has a fanfic writer's instincts for judiciously applied moments of hurt-comfort. I will definitely be reading more of her work in the future. I'm learning a lot by analyzing her style as well.


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[info]garnet_took
2008-06-26 10:22 pm UTC (link)
I can so simpathize with your computer woes. I lost everything on mine about three years ago. Some techy guy tried to save the contents of the hard-drive, but it wouldn't even spin to give up the data. Fortunately I was able to recreate a lot of the fanfic, but some of it was lost for ever.(sigh). Hope you have better luck with yours.

Hope the summer-school thing goes well. We did that one year, and after that, I said never again. The idea was that the resource kids were to get added help, but she never got it. It turns out that she was at the top of the kids needing added help, so she would have been the last to get it. Thank goodness we haven't been encouraged to send her back again.

Writing time is always good, where ever you can get it.:) I love it when I get the house and computer to myself and the muses start talking.

Take care.

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[info]odosgirl
2008-06-30 01:26 am UTC (link)
Yeah, we just got the gizmo to capture the stuff from the old drive. With luck, it will work. I've got a pile of Snapefic-in-progress that I'd rather not lose there. :-)

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