Fred made it out yesterday. It goes at warp speed compared to the one I had, even if the DVD/CD-RW does not work properly (it treats CD-RWs like CD-Rs so it's useless for saving my IP fics to until and unless I can figure out what's wrong).
I did have to buy two new monitors. My old one broke while Fred kept switching the connection from one computer to the other, trying to transfer the files over; this process also took over four hours besides, since my old computer kept freezing up and dying in mid-transfer. We finally had to delete a whole bunch of program and data files until it finally decided to work.
Ah, anyway, we bought the monitor, finished transferring the files over and then decided Terror should get the new monitor because it would be easier to read things online and I'd get the old one which was originally mine.
When we switched monitors, the one which went on mine was too dark for me to see and we changing the brightness and contrast didn't do any good, so we had to go to Staples again and buy a second one, for my system. The cashier thought we were bringing the one back as a return but we told her no, we were there to buy a second one. ;-) (Just as well, because the design of the new monitor matches my newer computer system). That's $300 down the hole on my credit card but, if I am ever going to get any writing done, the expense is justified.
Poor Fred. He had to play both tech and transport yesterday. ;-)
Something that held up my committing The Beast to paper is that only recently did I have the epiphany that it involved lots of different families, sort of like Family Feud (after a fashion, and not the game show). I already know the familial alliances and everything but once I knew that much, the rest of the story pretty much fell into place for me. Another step was realizing exactly where the story actually began (although I am planning a prequel for after The Beast is tamed).
My initial theme was 'Balance Of Nature' but that's a bit too nebulous even for me. I had already written quite a bit of the story in dribs and drabs, over 100k worth I think, all saved to zipfiles which I am currently disregarding since they have absolutely nothing to do with the first trilogy of at least 15 books.
Monday, December 06, 2004
I Have The Newer Computer.
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Your character receives a telephone call from
ReplyDelete01) A financial broker saying
* The stock fell (bankruptcy)
* There's been a buyout and your stock plummeted in value
* Someone's offered you a night with their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend, in exchange for your share of a company's stock
* The government shut down the corporation in which you hold stock, claiming it was a risk to national security.
02) The head of the CIA saying
* They have proof that you are an International Spy, though you know darn well that you ain't
* You are working with a Very Dangerous Individual who you are scheduled to meet for lunch tomorrow (maybe you have been friends for years)
* Your child belongs to a group which is plotting to blow up the school, an act of retaliation againt the One-Book-Per-Class-Per-Week homework now assigned for every subject from english to mathematics, art to social studies, that the school now insists upon for each student.
* Your mother had an illicit affair with the leader of a well-known Terrorist organization and you are the illegitimate prodigy of that clandestine union.
Hey, at least it's a start. *grin* Enjoy!