...my computer that is. Last weekend (before my day of writing - I used my hubby's computer to do that) my computer just shut down. Well, no. It turned off, not shut down. Like I had lost power, but my battery light (and the pop-up warning) never came on, so I didn't know what happened. I took it to the geeks at the computer store, but they said my warranty was expired and it was going to cost me $800 to get it looked at. WHAT?! I didn't even spend that much on the dumb thing when I bought it brand new.
I knew my in-laws were coming into town this weekend (and my father-in-law is a computer wiz) so I figured he could take a look and hopefully fix it. His diagnose? "It's dead. Might as well buy a new one." Damn!
Hubby has let me take over his netbook until I get a new notebook, but it's not the same. I want my baby back!
FIL was able to save all my data (including Internet favorites) so it wasn't a total disaster, but still. These little netbook screens are small; especially when at my day job I use two full sized desktop monitors. But I guess beggers can't be chosers, and I did write quite a bit on the netbook before without a problem...
today. Not bad, not bad at all. Wish it could have been more, but it turned out not to be a waste of a day.
Let's just hope the writing isn't crap. I don't think it is, but I need to let it sit and simmer, then I'll come back, read it again and decide. :)
I have the day off, and so I decided to take the little one to daycare and spend my whole day writing. But of course this is the day the city decides to take care of the pot holes, overgrown trees, and general maintenance on my street. Bang, bang, bang...Not really conducive to quiet writing time.
When I write, I pretty much need silence otherwise my undiagnosed ADD kicks in and I can't focus.
So now I'm going to put some ear phones in and try to get something done...Let's just hope I don't have to completely scratch it out later because it's oh so bad and not in a good way. *wink* :)
...Crash. That is what my hubby just named me. Because this morning while walking up the stairs in a parking garage to go into my day job, I fell. Thankfully, not down the stairs, but still.
I missed the next step and instead I fell forward and banged my shin. Now I have a nice black and blue bruise plus a knot that feels the size of a grape fruit.
The up side is my co-workers are really taking care of me, some medication (over the counter, don't worry) to help the swelling go down, an ice pack and a nice chair to rest my leg up on. It is kind of hard to work while sitting with one leg under the desk and the other up on a chair to the side of me. If it weren't for the pain in my leg, it would be a pretty good position for some other things. *wink* Ah, the possibilities.
There's probably even a good start to a story in this situation, but I'm having some trouble focusing on erotic thoughts while my body throbs, and not in a good way.
...without knowing what I was getting into.
I read a few blogs (to the right) and one of the authors I love (and I mean love, love, LOVE) said the best place for writers to go for a ton of tips was Erotica Readers and Writers Association. So I went and I signed up (for all four or five groups). I'm still learning my way around and, "Whoa boy!" its crazy.
Not only is it a website of information (call for submissions, adult toys, stories posted, etc.), but from what I can tell, it's also kind of like a chat but through email. Cool, right? Wrong. For someone like me (easily distracted) it's crazy! I have Google Desktop and when the little email box loads and says I have another email, I HAVE to read it. Right then. Like. Right. Now.
I'm either going to have to unsubscribe (which would kind of bum me out because the posts/comments are kinda fun to read and get good info from) or figure out how to automatically send them to an email folder so they don't show up in my inbox. I'm sure there is a way to do that, I've just never tried. Off I go.
UPDATE: Well, I set up an automatic forward to a folder and it seems to be working. So...Yay!
