Yearly Archives: 2010

Finally Got It.

Finally got the drive enclosure, so I have all of my files back in my possession.  Now, maybe I can actually move forward *laugh*

I temporarily just dumped the important files ( writing, website stuff ) into my documents folder, which is automatically backed up.  As soon as I have everything actually arranged into a new sensible folder structure, I’ll switch over to backing up every two days, as opposed to once a week.

I shouldn’t have issues with losing files ever again.

Now I need to go deal with my car, which has sprung a coolant leak *sigh*

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Working for dunderheads

Well, they managed to correct the problem that kept us at work late all last week.  Considering the volume of product we should be moving on average, this should have been a short week — as last week was supposed to be.

True to form, the suits found a way to completely screw up something else, and I’m stuck there just as long as I was last week *laugh*

So once again, I didn’t make it out to get that drive enclosure.  I seriously doubt that anything will improve throughout the week, so it’s probably either going to be the weekend, or just a day when I feel like making the 40 min. drive after my 40 min. commute home to pick it up.

Wrote a little bit more, and goofed around with that video project — which actually might work out.  I’ll probably post a link to it here ( or maybe even embed it into the blog ) if I go through with it and post it to Youtube.  Hey, at least you’ll get to hear my voice.

Goofing around with this might actually have some benefit related to my writing, though.  I’m experimenting with my sound recording while I’m at this, and that could lead to audio stories at some point.  Odds are that the first such project would be an audio LST3K, because I think that those would be twice as good with me actually doing the goofy voices and sound effects that I type out in text for those.

That’s all for tonight.  Just want to keep the blog active any time that I’m moving forward on things ( even if it is slow )

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Damn football…

No, I wasn’t watching it — My sister was *laugh*  I gave up on all sports with the 80’s Cardinals having 80% of the highlights reels for amazing plays, and still managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at every turn.

Thus, I still don’t have that drive enclosure.  We’ll see what happens next week.

I did manage to write a bit this morning.  I went back to that scene I skipped in SOTM and finished it, getting something important about Meckataur in there.  Then, I went to the next scene with Danica and Celes, and fixed a little nagging point that was bothering me about the whole thing.  I also cleaned up a scene with Zoraster, and made a few other little changes to get the flow going right.

All in all, I ended up with about the same word count that I had before making the changes, but I’m much happier with those two-thousand-some-odd words.

I was up early as hell, though.  Thus, I’m going to take myself to bed, now that the young one is down for the night.  With any luck, this week will actually prove to be short, as last week was supposed to be, allowing me to get my drive enclosure and write a little after work.

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Got sidetracked yesterday

Got sidetracked by one of my old passions yesterday.  The new computer can manage emulators and recording software at the same time, and I have enough storage space to edit videos, so I was thinking about making Let’s Play videos for a few things, starting with the obscure Taito arcade game Gladiator.

Did a little playing around and testing, just to see how it went.  Not really good, but a possible building block to do it at some point in the future.  I’ve always thought that I might eventually do a little of my old gaming stuff on the website in its own directory, with the warnings also offering redirects to those “safe” sections of the website, if someone foolishly wanders outside the links of the gaming part of the site to discover the main page and its purpose.

The most likely thing to go up is an archive of my old Dragon Warrior/Quest midis.  Hardly anybody uses midis any more, but I still get a request or two every once in a while, and the original location is a spam fest of pop-ups and ads, now that I’ve downgraded it from paid status.  I’d probably also post my old FAQS ( even though most of them are far outstripped by those of others at this point )

A couple ( Gladiator, Dracula’s Shadow, DQ1-2 SNES ) are still about the best out there, and it would be nice for them to have a place.

Okay, now that’s out of the way *laugh*  I’m going to see about conning my Sis into watching the boy for a couple of hours today so that I can finally grab my drive enclosure and get fully back into gear.

Now, I’m going to open up WP and see what’s drawing my interest to write on this morning, before my tornado boy wakes up.

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Little smatterings

Wrote a little more on various things, and did a lot of brainstorming on some stories I’ve wanted to write for a while.  One of them might even be fleshed out enough to start writing.

Need to sit down and start planning my next story in the “Of the Wood” series, too.  Earth Day will be here before I know it.

Didn’t make it out to get my drive enclosure today, either.  Got out a little earlier, but just didn’t feel like making the drive.  I might see if I can con Sis into watching the young one for a couple of hours so I can go do it this weekend.  If not, I’ll hope for better luck getting out early next week.

The boy is wound up tonight, so not much chance of writing.  Just can’t handle the distraction.  By the time I wind down, after he winds down, I’ll be too tired to write worth spit.

Thought about fixing the link to the blog on the main pages to point to the front page of the blog instead of permalinks, but decided to wait to get the drive enclosure for that, too.  I already have my FTP program on that drive with the logon information on it, so I’m just going to transfer that to the new system, too.  Just don’t feel like downloading it again, digging up the logon information, etc. to grab one file to edit off the server.

I’ve been waking up ahead of the young one on weekends ( even when I go to bed later ) so maybe I’ll get a little writing done in the morning.

Even if I don’t write anything new tonight, I might do a little spicing on Ch. 16.  It needs a little more scene setting than I currently have in there.  Trying to stay in that habit, since I’d realized that I fell away from it ( starting around Merchant Princess )

Enough for now.  Just want to keep the blog up and running so anyone who visits knows that I’m still active, and not down in the dumps ( too badly ) again.

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