ishte, posts by tag: gaia's song - LiveJournal

Well, I've mostly got my new computer set up. Of course I get to come down with some annoying bug this week and feel like crap all week... (Not CoViD-19... just stupid guts made super delicate and susceptible to the slightest little thing by a lengthy period of very high stress allowing me to get some stupid bug.  I'm not feeling well enough to go to work, but mostly not sick enough to stay in bed all day.  So in the interim of the time I don't feel to crappy to do ANYTHING at ALL, I sit here and work on setting up my computer or writing.

So... For the most part, the computer is set up the way I want it.  It's now been a matter of finally transferring data from different places.  Now my office computer Aka Silver Drake becomes the secondary computer.  So files from there are copied here. It never had all my files in the first place. That was done weeks ago, and the thumb drive used for that transfer was all moved onto the Vaio aka The Dragonette.

The Dragonette, I only moved a limited number of files to in the first place since I only intended to continue using it for writing, so the writing files of which were the most up to date are moved to the Dragonfly. The music files I found on the Dragonette are also moved to Dragonfly now, and I sorted them as well. So now the Vaio is finished.

Last I guess is going to be moving things that have remained on the Fire Drake computer (predecessor to the Silver Drake) which I never moved all of completely.  Mostly this is Photos, Music, Artwork, and Manga. lol... SO much that It's going to take several trips back and forth with the thumb drive.  Right now... Loading Manga, Writing I did not transfer in the first place, and my other eBooks.  Music is probably going to be the biggest. I'm 100% sure that the music I moved from the Vaio was minimal, because it's only what I found on my backup CD's and put on to listen to.  I mean, I have to wonder how much of The Crüxshadows I'm going to be able to listen to on Amazon Music! Lol And I have quite a lot of it. So the transfer goes on. The trick here is that the FireDrake (aptly named) Overheats EASILY, so I have to be careful to make sure it doesn't get overloaded while copying.  It's on the fan, and it's fairly chilly up here (I have a heated blankey. But I have to really watch what it's doing. It already went to sleep once on me.

Meanwhile, I am working on Chapter 18 - What If...  I set a soft deadline for January 15 and I intend to try to meet it. I decided to start using yWriter7 to work on this. I already use it when I'm working on Gaia's Song, but I had never really thought to use it for something more 'trivial'. lol.  But I think it's going to be helpful to stay organized too. 

I'm just stopping by here.  Honestly, I feel like hardly any of my friends are using livejournal any more. Photobucket totally destroyed all my beautiful themes that I worked so hard on.  It's been so long that I don't really remember how to make them again and I don't want to waste time making new ones... or learning how to adapt my old ones... OR taking the time to find a new place to serve the images from.  So I'm back to boring default layouts.  At some point I did apparently move my cute little cloud mood icons over to LiveJournal Proper.

So I'd love if anyone is still here, to get a comment so I know you're still around. I know there seemed to be a mass migration to a basically duplicated service, but I don't remember what it was called, and since I haven't been LiveJournaling with any regularity, I don't know if it's still that active either.  FxcxBook has pretty much ruined everything.  I hate it so much, but but that's how I stay in touch with family and friends so....

Since I've been writing again, having finally figured out WHY I haven't been writing, I've made some changes to my setup. No longer using my office for writing.  It's not comfortable. It's fine for stuff I need an office for, but I needed my swing arm and couch setup back. So I've been writing a lot more recently. Chasing the Trail FMA fanfiction has two new chapters and a third underway. I've been working on Gaia's Song some too.

October this year was extremely unkind to me, so I'm still in recovery from that.  The stress got me pretty sick for a while, but Docs and meds seem to have me on the right track for recovery from that, and my stress level has started to decrease now that I'm starting to feel better physically.  It kind of sucks when you're sick because you're so stressed out but being sick is the thing that has put you over the top of your stress tolerance.

Anyway, I'll leave it there. Give me a shout out and i'll try to check back and see how things are going.

PS if you have a photo sharing site you use to serve pictures, let me know what you're using and I'll check it out.  I told Photobucket to kiss my ass.  I took everything off of it and uploaded one 'artwork' that basically said "Goodbye Photobucket! You suck now" lol

Woah, man... You know, this is what happens when you can't write for a long time. You open up a project and start looking at the background documents. (you know, character profiles, worldbuilding stuff, notes, outlines...) Suddenly realise, that there is a fair amount of stuff you didn't actually put down in the notes, that you now only half remember because it's been too long since you worked on this project.

Gaia's Song, I discovered is missing the character profile for Nanashi Sou.  This is someone who is a core character, and pretty important to the story.  I have a few references to him in other documents, and in some of the outlines and timelines. He's mentioned in the profile of a character that he is related to, but nothing of any significance. He's just listed as a sibling. There is no actual profile with his pre story history and background.  What this is going to mean is that he's going to have to have a background as I remember it.  I'm usually better about having profiles for everyone... Like real serious in depth profiles for the core character group and breif blurbs of information about the minor characters that are more than just an extra.  I didn't make a profile for the tailor for example, but Tabithe Moriatry (Dyana's mother) has at least a brief profile because Dyana is still a minor at the beginning of the story, and she lives with her mother.

I'm also discovering that I can't see the computer as well as I'd like.  I'm going to have to go and get a new prescription for computer use, as my current glasses progressive lense is apparently not progressive enough. I can take them off, but then I want my face too close to the computer screen to be sitting comfortably in my little pink chair. Lol.  The screen is too bright and glary too.  I was told at my last visit that I didn't have cataracts, but I'm starting to disbelive that.  The problems I have with glare are generally indicative of cataracts as well as some other other issues that I've been having the last couple of years.  if I could afford to pay for it, I'd just as soon have the cataracts out and get nice seven layer multifocal lenses installed in my new cyborg eyes...  I'm guessing my insurance isn't going to cover that though.  Wonder if I could buy just optical insurance through work and still keep my regular medical insurance through the expansion.... Hmmm....

Anyway, that's my update.  I'm off to try to write Nanashi Sou's profile pretty much out of thin air. Lol.

Oh yeah.. My new Logitech Marble Mouse (it's a trackball. Lol... not a mouse... It used to be called the Marble Mouse, now I think it's called the Trackman Marble) came in today so FREAKING YAY!  I don't have to try to work with this crappy Kensington mouse.  I though it would be similar enough to let me switch to a wireless trackball, but while it has a central ball and can be used with either hand, it's way shorter, and leaves nothing for me to rest the base of my hand on while I'm tracking. If my fingers are on the trackball, the last point of contact I have to support my hand is the metacarpophalangeal knuckle. Only someone with a tiny hand (Trump? Lol) would be able to use that thing comfortably. It's nice having it be wireless, but damn... who designed this crappy shape?  I tried for a year to get used to it. I gave it the old college try, but no.  It's awful and I hate it.  So I'm back to a wired trackball, but at least it's comfortable in my hand.