Currents of Time

New computer has been mercifully problemless so far. It's running Vista, so everything looks wrong and I haven't got it all figured out yet, but I disabled the UAC and a bunch of other stuff so it no longer asks me if I want to allow everything.

It wasn't annoying me too much until I noticed it didn't remember things, and I'm not forgiving enough to put up with having to tell it YES I AM SURE every time I try to open anything.

I AM, HOWEVER, MOST SORROWFUL ABOUT MY LOSS OF WALLPAPERS. :(

( COMPUTER BLAHBLAH )

Enough of that. November! You and your WRITING, man, I dunno. I like NaNoWriMo. I don't think I've ever really made the 50k word goal, but I've never minded. I can't write like that. I can't toss my inner editor aside and just write. I think it's really awesome that some people can, and do, but I cannot. I look at November more as a month where I say, look, self, just write something, yeah? And that works. I do write more in November than I do every other month of the year (...possibly combined). I don't always finish what I start, but it gets me writing, and that's my real goal for the month.

As I said perhaps more coherently to someone in an Instant Messenger conversation this afternoon: I dunno, I'm amazed by people who do write 50k in November (or more!) but I can't do it. I can't just write 50k words blindly. I do like using it as a starting point, though. IT IS NOVEMBER YOU WILL WRITE not, It is November and you will write anything and everything because OMG WORDCOUNT (or should that be, "it is the eleventh month of the year, which is to say, November, and you can and will write both and and every single that occurs to you throughout that month because hitting your word count goal of fifty thousand words is entirely more important than anything silly like reason or sense or even coherency."?).

So right now I've got about seven WIPs I've been poking around at, and I'm at a dead end in all of them, so maybe I'll try to start yet another one tomorrow, or maybe I'll just sit on them until I come up with something. BUT WRITING! Yay, me!

Have I mentioned it? Did you know there was a time you could type "Valkurm" into Google and in the search results, it'd pop up, "Did you mean "HELL"?" Wish I'd saved a screenshot so badly.

Supernatural's 'Houses of the Holy' versus Jecca's memories of Doctor Who's 'Blink' .... FIGHT! I don't care that none of them were weeping. I'm just glad that whole scene in the room with the statues wasn't too long.

Also, I've discovered, entirely by accident, that I am able to take screencaps! Bwaha! I thought FRAPS only snapped from FFXI, but I opened my screenshots folder to sort them to my external hard drive and there were, somehow, Supernatural images in with them. How confusing! I'd seen FRAPS take shots from WinAMP, but that had only happened while I was playing, and I assumed it was because I have WinAMP set to always be on top. I have not been playing FFXI and watching Supernatural at the same time (man, that'd be hard), but I have been talking over IM, and I have, on occasion, used the \ key, which is set to save an image.

(A bit relatedly, and amusingly, my mother made extreme woe-faces at me this evening when I informed her I had decided to stop waiting for her to have time. I assured her I'd be willing to watch it with her, anyway.)


Unrelated, that Ecco is featured on TV Tropes under the video game section of Nightmare Fuel (search the page for Ecco, as it's quite a ways down) amuses me so much. Also is a bit of a relief, because IT'S ALL SO TRUUUEE. I swear I wasn't the one to add it. (Oh, it actually has its own page, too! Cool.)

That Silent Hill isn't really listed on that page also amuses me, though obviously for very different reasons.


Edit:
Re: 'Born Under a Bad Sign' at about the halfway point: Saaaaaam. *weeeeeeeep* Clearly it must not be what they're trying to make us think it is, but I WEEEEEEEEP.

(I mean, I am despairing for both of them, but considering the potential/problem here...)

...

I think the computer is clean.


If I never have to do that again... It's enough to make one want to swear off the internet.


I can't believe I made the Spyware wallpaper go away. And the pop-ups have stopped. And I took the liberty of installing Firefox on his laptop while I was there.


I think I might go to bed now. I deserve a long nap.