There comes a point in every cold where the head suddenly clears, and even though you still can't breathe properly, the eyes are still watering and the voice still sounds like you're chewing gravel, you realise that the really
bleurgh part is over. I just hit that point. It's so
good to have my brain back - I really miss it when it goes AWOL.
Now I can get back to what laughingly passes for normal around here.
So, brainless activity,
ne? Friends and visitors who've read back that far may remember I was involved in co-operatively writing a sort of online slash/yaoi story with six other people (scattered across the planet), the as-yet-unfinished sex-n-drugs-n-rock-n-roll epic called
Purgatory. The last posted, chapter 250 (I did
say it was an epic!) hit the 'net 27
th Oct 2004, although there are at least another 8-10 chapters in rough sitting in a Topica account: my main character, Devon Welsh, went on to co-star in Lutra's epic
Dystopia, posted in the (other) Zone at wavewrights.com. (Well, he was just so
cute! I didn't want to waste him...)
Purgatory is hosted on geocities, and I spent the last two days' computer time saving the whole thing to my C drive in preparation for burning to CD. (The actual writing was a lot of work, and a lot of fun, and I needed a copy for my own records if nothing else.)
But of course I didn't want all the advertising crap that comes with geocities, so it was a matter of 'open page, [show only this frame], [save page as], [open file] (on C drive), open notepad file, delete all the geocities junk, [save]'. For each of 250 pages. Then copy/pasting the rough chapters from the Topica account to notepad and trying to save them in the right chronological order. Had I had a fully-functioning brain, it would have either run screaming or died of boredom.
But now it's safely backed-up on the CD (the story, that is, not my brain...) and deleted from my C drive - a job that's needed doing for a couple of years. I do hate wasting time, even when I'm ill. It's just a pity that the story is very unlikely to ever be finished...
The timing of the 'feeling better' is handy too - the
Dreams editor emailed me earlier with a requested entry revision. Well, when I say revision, she wants the entry rewritten. Which is OK, if a little tricky, trying to cram a lot of info into about 120 words. Yesterday I couldn't have managed it. Tonight I can. This is a good thing.
In other news... Cute comment on my JList newsletter -
We've restocked the popular Recipes of Japanese Cooking, a great
bilingual book that helps you cook Japanese dishes in both languages.
[smirk] Just in case you ever want to cook
sushi in Japanese...
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is supposed to be available on DVD very soon. This I
must see, in memory of Alithiel as much as anything. Hopefully the DVD/video rental shop will have it for the weekend.
On the subject of viewing, Sci-fi Channel have started showing
Medium tonight: the trailer clips have been intriguing, and Ken suggested we watch it... It's really rather good - had me actually
watching rather than turning my head from the monitor every now and then to see what was going on. Whether the quality stays that high remains to be seen, of course, but I've remindered it for regular viewing.
Right, enough of this frivolity! If I can get this
Dreams entry rewritten, I can do something more fun for a while...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 11:47 pm
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