I was sort of run down today because I stayed up way too late last night.  I’ve only had about 4 hours of sleep in 2 hour blocks, so I’m pretty blah.  Plus, I had to run to the store, which burned up most of the time while the young one was at school.

Thus, I haven’t really done anything today.  I’ve pretty much sat around vegetating.  We’ll see how I feel when the boy winds down.  I might try to write or work on the website a bit.

If nothing else, I still have the whole weekend ahead of me now, and there’s no way I’ll be able to stay up too late tonight.  I should at least have grabbed some sleep tomorrow.

I’ll post more about things that most of you are actually intersted in later, but I just thought I’d stick this up for giggles.

This is the first episode in my little “Let’s Play” experiment on YouTube for Gladiator.

Just didn’t feel like doing anything else after dealing with the car today.  Threw my schedule all off.  Putting the finishing touches on this wasn’t as taxing *laugh*

So here’s Let’s Play Gladiator 01.

Let’s Play Gladiator 01

As I mentioned in an earlier post, this has a few connections to my writing.  First, I might do audio stories at some point, so I’m messing around with how to do audio while doing this.  Second, I intend to put out trailers for some of my stories ( The relaunch and Finale of SOTM are what’s planned right now ).  Learning how to do videos will move me toward that.

There are a couple of scenes that I might even do as videos with music in the background as website bonuses to the released stories.  One of the final scenes of SOTM comes to mind.  I already know exactly how that scene goes, and it plays out to the ending song of Chrono Trigger in my head.

More about my writing or the website a little later.

Went in today just so I didn’t have to call in and take an unscheduled absence, then scheduled the rest of the week off because of that coolant leak in my car.  Taking it in to get it fixed tomorrow morning.

So, I sort of have two days off.  Don’t know how much I’ll get done, because the young one will be here when he’s not at school.  Might get a little more writing done at night, or in the morning if I don’t stay up late, but I’m probably going to prioritize sleep *laugh*  I don’t get much of it, and I have to take it when I can.

Doubt the car will be all that expensive.  At least it and the computer both happened with my tax check just on the horizon, so I don’t have to stress over them.

It may be that I’ll get more done with working on the website than my writing these two days.  I seem to be able to work on that a little easier when my young one is around.  Trying to create vivid scenes and emotions more or less requires me to concentrate, close my eyes, and lose myself in my writing.  Can’t do tha with tornado boy around.  Coding is a little more second nature, since I’ve been writing code since the TRS-80.

(No, I’m not quite that old.  Our school was just way behind the times)

With all my php notes and previous work now hooked up to this computer, plus the stuff that I’d already completed, I’m in a good position to work on that.  The next step is designing my behind-the-scenes database and admin functions to update the site dynamically.

The young one is winding down, so I might just write a bit on Lowborn tonight.  Now that I have everything back on this computer, I can double-check some things I need to move forward on that, and I really need to read back through all the unpublished chapters of SOTM yet again, just to refresh my memory after losing them for a couple of weeks.

Then again, I might just do some of the final clean-up tweaks to those unpublished chapters.  There are still a few stylistic changes I’m making with regards to proper names and scene-setting that needs to be put into those.

Guess we’ll see where my mood takes me.

Gotta get a new keyboard, too.  My wireless one crapped out on me.  Damn batteries corroded, and once I put the new ones in, it wouldn’t connect.  Oh well, it was ancient, and the software that displayed the caps lock/num lock indicators onscreen ( it didn’t have lights on the keyboard) wouldn’t work on Win 7 anyway.  That was getting a little frustrating at times.  Now I’m stuck with an old beater off an HP machine, and I hate the bloody thing *laugh*

My video is a lot faster with the 1GB dedicated video memory, but not blow-me-away.  Probably has a lot to do with the “pretty” features of Aero that I’m not really all that interested in.  I’ll probably be turning those off soon.

I’ll also set up my backups to every two days tomorrow.  No more worries about lost files — Yay!

Enough babbling.  I’m going to see about getting the young one in bed, and see what I feel like doing as far as writing goes.