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Even my laptop is sick.
Mar. 5th, 2008 09:34 pmDH is looking at it again. I'm hoping it's something simple, like the physical machine just can't handle XP or something. When it works, it's great. It's just that it continues to lock up randomly, and it's doubly annoying because there isn't a handy reset button on the laptop, so to restart I have to remove the battery and pull the plug, every time. Argh.
I'm still stuck on the WIP. I think I have a good idea, and I'm close to the end. I'm just having a terrible time getting into my MC's head. Maybe it's because I'm not a guy and he is. Or maybe it's because every time I get close to connecting, the laptop freezes. Or maybe it's some kind of creeping lethargy. After all, at least two of my LJ friends seem to have it, too. Of course, I probably don't have the same pressure they do to perform. But still, it's frustrating. Can we send our characters on a road trip together to get them talking again? How about an apocalyptic Greyhound trip? One where they break down in the mountains in Colorado? And there are a few convicts aboard, and a few others who should be if only they'd been arrested for their crimes? (Not that I'm thinking of any real-life experiences, oh no, not me! Spending the day broken down in a blizzard in Steamboat Springs with the very people who tried to steal my luggage? Moi? Naah.)
I'm sure hoping we're well tomorrow. Things are starting to build up this weekend. DH has a phone interview tomorrow night--very late our time--and DS 1 is supposed to be finishing a report for school on life celebrations in Islam (this is for the required religion class). Friday we have people invited for dinner and Saturday is the all-day youth event I'm supposed to help run. (And still have to plan my part in.) Sunday I'm playing a piano solo in church. I learned to play the piano after being in band for a year, but never had normal piano lessons, so there are areas where I play well, and huge gaps in between. It should be...interesting. Maybe everyone will be sick that day. Or at least have heavy head colds. It's intimidating to do musical numbers among Bach's countrymen.
Speaking of church, we live in a city where the chief industry is an engineering/technology firm that has branches all over the world, so there's a high percentage of traveling employees, both Germans abroad and others here. I can only guess the guy visiting from Argentina on Sunday is connected to the business somehow. Anyway, it was really fun to talk to him (and he just looked Argentine/South-South American). Plus, he knows someone I knew in Chile! The world is small. Very, very small, I tell you.
I'm still stuck on the WIP. I think I have a good idea, and I'm close to the end. I'm just having a terrible time getting into my MC's head. Maybe it's because I'm not a guy and he is. Or maybe it's because every time I get close to connecting, the laptop freezes. Or maybe it's some kind of creeping lethargy. After all, at least two of my LJ friends seem to have it, too. Of course, I probably don't have the same pressure they do to perform. But still, it's frustrating. Can we send our characters on a road trip together to get them talking again? How about an apocalyptic Greyhound trip? One where they break down in the mountains in Colorado? And there are a few convicts aboard, and a few others who should be if only they'd been arrested for their crimes? (Not that I'm thinking of any real-life experiences, oh no, not me! Spending the day broken down in a blizzard in Steamboat Springs with the very people who tried to steal my luggage? Moi? Naah.)
I'm sure hoping we're well tomorrow. Things are starting to build up this weekend. DH has a phone interview tomorrow night--very late our time--and DS 1 is supposed to be finishing a report for school on life celebrations in Islam (this is for the required religion class). Friday we have people invited for dinner and Saturday is the all-day youth event I'm supposed to help run. (And still have to plan my part in.) Sunday I'm playing a piano solo in church. I learned to play the piano after being in band for a year, but never had normal piano lessons, so there are areas where I play well, and huge gaps in between. It should be...interesting. Maybe everyone will be sick that day. Or at least have heavy head colds. It's intimidating to do musical numbers among Bach's countrymen.
Speaking of church, we live in a city where the chief industry is an engineering/technology firm that has branches all over the world, so there's a high percentage of traveling employees, both Germans abroad and others here. I can only guess the guy visiting from Argentina on Sunday is connected to the business somehow. Anyway, it was really fun to talk to him (and he just looked Argentine/South-South American). Plus, he knows someone I knew in Chile! The world is small. Very, very small, I tell you.
