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It's been far too long since I updated
Jun. 19th, 2012 09:46 pmIt's been a busy month. Hell, it's been a busy year!
There's been some family drama which I'm not going to share, but it's the main reason I went silent for a while. I tend to do that; if something's going on I know I don't want to talk about, I find it hard to talk about *anything*.
But there's good stuff, too.
I have a shiny new PC. My former desktop has been hanging on to life by a thread for some time now. I still need to rescue some stuff from the hard drive but once that's done I can let her go to Silicon Heaven. She's earned it. My new PC is super-fast and has a 2TB hard drive! I caved and bought Microsoft Office to go with it. I've been using OpenOffice for a long time, but we use MS Office at work and I just love some of the features that OpenOffice doesn't have. Especially in Excel.
I also acquired a bicycle - and have already fallen off it once. Actually, once is a pretty good score for me. My balance is horrible and we have a lot of hills around here. But I twisted my knee when I fell. It's not bad, but others have noticed I was limping yesterday. I am a clumsy idiot.
I have sort of finished my story for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
spn_summergen. Sort of in that it works as a story, but the ending is a bit, um, non-endy. That's not a real word, but hopefully you get my drift. I'm going to try to add a bit more to give it more of a firm conclusion, but it'll be fine as-is if necessary. It's a "missing scene" kind of thing so canon supplies an "offscreen" ending.
I also - somehow - have written about 2,300 words of a Sentinel cyberpunk AU. Don't ask me where that came from. I don't read cyberpunk and have only seen it on film and TV in fairly dilute forms. I just got this scene in my head and had to write it. Blair is a dealer of illegal tech; Jim is a buyer - he wants to use tech to control his senses, which have been going crazy on him. What I've written is just the setup - atmosphere, world-building, and Jim and Blair's first meeting. Whether it'll turn into an actual fic is anybody's guess at this point. I don't even know what Jim does for a living, except he's not a cop (can't be, if he's seeking illegal tech). I won't post any of it, at least not yet. If it works out, I'll save it for next year's big bang. If.
I'm settling in to the intranet manager job. The software is so slow it's frustrating and our IT department is useless, but the job itself suits me well. It appears to be permanent for me...at least as much as anything is. There's been no talk of advertising the post, anyway.
I am feeling an itch to bake something this week. Carrot cake, maybe? I don't know why, but baking cake seems to make most things better.
There's been some family drama which I'm not going to share, but it's the main reason I went silent for a while. I tend to do that; if something's going on I know I don't want to talk about, I find it hard to talk about *anything*.
But there's good stuff, too.
I have a shiny new PC. My former desktop has been hanging on to life by a thread for some time now. I still need to rescue some stuff from the hard drive but once that's done I can let her go to Silicon Heaven. She's earned it. My new PC is super-fast and has a 2TB hard drive! I caved and bought Microsoft Office to go with it. I've been using OpenOffice for a long time, but we use MS Office at work and I just love some of the features that OpenOffice doesn't have. Especially in Excel.
I also acquired a bicycle - and have already fallen off it once. Actually, once is a pretty good score for me. My balance is horrible and we have a lot of hills around here. But I twisted my knee when I fell. It's not bad, but others have noticed I was limping yesterday. I am a clumsy idiot.
I have sort of finished my story for
spn_summergen. Sort of in that it works as a story, but the ending is a bit, um, non-endy. That's not a real word, but hopefully you get my drift. I'm going to try to add a bit more to give it more of a firm conclusion, but it'll be fine as-is if necessary. It's a "missing scene" kind of thing so canon supplies an "offscreen" ending.I also - somehow - have written about 2,300 words of a Sentinel cyberpunk AU. Don't ask me where that came from. I don't read cyberpunk and have only seen it on film and TV in fairly dilute forms. I just got this scene in my head and had to write it. Blair is a dealer of illegal tech; Jim is a buyer - he wants to use tech to control his senses, which have been going crazy on him. What I've written is just the setup - atmosphere, world-building, and Jim and Blair's first meeting. Whether it'll turn into an actual fic is anybody's guess at this point. I don't even know what Jim does for a living, except he's not a cop (can't be, if he's seeking illegal tech). I won't post any of it, at least not yet. If it works out, I'll save it for next year's big bang. If.
I'm settling in to the intranet manager job. The software is so slow it's frustrating and our IT department is useless, but the job itself suits me well. It appears to be permanent for me...at least as much as anything is. There's been no talk of advertising the post, anyway.
I am feeling an itch to bake something this week. Carrot cake, maybe? I don't know why, but baking cake seems to make most things better.
