E. Liddell wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:51:23 -0500, Laurie G. wrote:
>
>> E. Liddell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:50:32 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jul 14, 10:09 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:04:00 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>>>> On Jul 13, 8:06 am, "E. Liddell"
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:00:26 -0500, Laurie G. wrote:
>>>>>>>> sephigirl wrote:
>>>>>>> Mmm . . . Fudge. N'one ev'r gives m' 'nuff
>>>>>>> fudge.
>>>>>> In that case. *gives her more, decorated with bishounen*
>>>>> Th'n'ks.
>>>> Full of fudge or full of bishounen? ~_^ ~_^ ~_^
>>>>
>>>> *is evil*
>>> Right now, just fudge. I'm saving the bishounen for when I don't have
>>> an audience. ;)
>> Meanwhile, the bishounen are drooling at the fudge.
>
>
> plate toward the bishounen>
*Is careful not to step in between the bishounen and the plate of fudge.*
>
>>> Well, this time I at least have some idea where the story is going, so
>>> I might make it at least to the end of Part 1. I hope. (And the
>>> protagonist probably hopes that I *won't* get that far, since I already
>>> know that his wife's going to die, rather messily, at that point.)
>>>
>>> I just wish I knew why *every single novel-length original plot* I come
>>> up with seems to end up having demons in it somewhere. (Well, okay,
>>> more like three-quarters of them, really, but . . .) The word "demon"
>>> doesn't even end up meaning quite the same thing in any two of the
>>> worlds involved, but it always seems to show up.
>>>
>>>> The fan fic ideas have been coming on strong of late.
>>> Good for you.
>> I have been finding energy and interest for working on my fanfics from a
>> very unexpected direction. I just got a new machine, which has Vista,
>> Office 2007 and a different directory structure than the old machine.
>> The directory difference is purely a quirk of my own, not the fault of
>> the PC. Which ends up meaning I've been having to open up every one of
>> my unfinished pieces and make sure they're structurally sound. After
>> which I begin re-reading them. After which, I begin working on them.
>> This is just accelerating since I finished the last novels being read
>> and took them back to the library.
>
> Best of luck with 'em.
>
> I'm still writing on the same computer I had when I started writing
> fanfic--in fact, that's about all the poor old thing does these days.
> (I do miss the complex of email filters I had set up on it, though . . .
> Unfortunately, hooking it up to the Internet by any means other than its
> own modem is impractical--Windows 3.1, y'know.)
Oooh, an antique!
> And the directory
> structure gets cloned forward when I back stuff up over the LAN. It's a
> bit of a mess, really.
My case is a direct result of the smaller hard drives in an earlier
machine. At that time, the physical hard drive was bigger than a
logical drive could be, and so it was partitioned into into three. In
the following system, the old hard drive was stuck in as a second
physical drive, and ended up with designations d:, e: and f:. Since e:
and f: had been my working data drives from the original system, they
remained such in the second system. Now with this system, I backed up
everything onto an external hard drive, and then loaded it onto the new
single, big hard drive. But of course the *drive* designations couldn't
remain so they became directories like "old-e-drive". And that's not
the file path recorded as my document components, so I had to rebuild
the documents. In the end, a small price to pay for maintaining my data
over all of these system upgrades.
>
> Of course, if I wanted to be really, er, dedicated, I could put
> everything under source control . . . but then again, I don't use that as
> much as I should even for computer code.
That is dedicated. Use of source control is a standard practice at work
of course, but I've never undertaken to install any at home. The coding
I do at home so far hasn't become big or complex enough that I can't
track my versions with directory copies.
>
>>>>>> (and Shiori, who is currently beating DQ over the head)
>>>>> That's enough--no need to give poor DQ a
>>>>> brain injury.
>>>> I'd need to have a brain to be injured first. ^^
>>> Yeah, but you can't say things like that about other people . . .
>>>
>> *makes note for sake of future social interactions*
>
> Note of what, precisely? ;P
The idea that I shouldn't say thing like that about other people. o\_/o
>
>>> E. Liddell, who currently needs a third hand with which to pet the
>>> fluffy neko while typing, because he nips me on the wrist when I stop.
>>> If he keeps this up, I may carry out my threat to make an LOLcat out of
>>> that one picture of him I have . . .
>> You should do it anyway. Then tell us where it's posted.
>
> Truth be told, the only reason I haven't done so yet is that I can't be
> bothered to dredge up the CD I stored the photo on.
>
> E. Liddell, currently nekoless (and just as well--it's hot enough in here
> that having something warm and furry in my lap would not be comfortable.
> My elbows are sticking to my chair arms.)
The hot, sticky weather has arrived in our area too, punctuated with
nasty thunderstorms. So I'm taking advantage of the delay of the latest
storm front to get some correspondence answered.
Laurie
