Unstuck!

So I am now unstuck on the plot motion for my story. Now that I can get everyone on the boat they can go ahead with their voyage. Huzzah!


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Coffee

I don’t know where my wallet got to today. I’m a little pissed off. And really tired. I haven’t been able to relax in months. So today I am watching Hairspray and drinking coffee.

I don’t know what it is about coffee but it is really relaxing. The only thing better would be smoking a hookah on a deck in the late spring air, with a cup of Turkish coffee. Watching the moon rise above the range while inside sits a puppy resting his poor feet. The run through the woods today was a great one, three miles out and back. Now I sit at home, a little dub floats in the apartment’s air, and all there is right then is me the moon and the pup. Then the coffee boils over.

He seriously can’t be that good…

Sitting at lunch and working on the adventures. We’ll see what happens with this, but I don’t have the creative energy to spend on one of the short stories stuck in DropBox or the hard drive right now. Freaking iTunes is a piece of shit yet again, telling me that my iPhone isn’t authorized to sync with the same computer it has always been sync’d to. But whatever. Updates and relaxing night of D&D with the guys should fix my mood. Stupid neighbors and thin walls.

On the bus

I am forever stuck on this bus. I see your eyes and it isn’t the next day that I am thinking about. It is twenty years from now that I seek. The quiet, the alone doesn’t bother me as much as what you could do to me if you get up from that cushioned seat. That fear is what stays my mouth when you smile at me. It’s okay though because I am forever stuck on this bus, and you’ll leave it soon. Just another hour and then I can sleep in my room.

From my Netbook: Entry 1

Alright, so I am poking around Microsoft’s online store for the different Office products and discovered that there are too many options. This was one of the problems when Vista came out just a few years ago. MS needs to follow the K.I.S.S. principle when it comes to offering products. Aim one at business people with serious IT departments, one at smaller business groups with basic database needs and one at home/students with the basics. Word, Excel, PowePoint, Outlook and OneNote all should be included in the most basic level of Office. I can see losing Outlook, but don’t make two different versions of the software, one without Outlook and with OneNote, and one without OneNote and with Outlook. It is just a silly way to do things. Microsoft continues to try to push the envelope just a little more but they need to give their customers what the customers ask for. I would condense the Student and Teacher edition and Standard editions of Office into one edition. Well, hopefully they will do it in 2010. Here’s to 2010.

Christmas 2009

Got The Alchemist from Eldon and Meghann today. Well, didn't get it today, but opened it today. Looking at netbooks, seeing what Best Buy might have in stock.

As I keep looking I continue to wonder why people seem to think that these little laptops are hindered by the lack of a heavy optical drive. They are not meant for more than surfing, writing, and coffee house culture. The little boxes are meant no more than what the perfect computer for most Gen X's parents will ever use it for. Writing their friends, leaving inane comments for their children on Facebook, and keeping in touch as they learn to live on less and less.

To me they mean so much more. They mean home servers, wired housing, and everything that Gates, the two Steves, Linus, and many sci-fi writers predicted. They are ideal for students who need something other than the heavy duty laptop/desktop left in their room. Wired up rooms, houses you can monitor from home, your own little Big Brother. Beautiful baby, beautiful. It is a little machine I can take my D&D character with me, stop at a Starbucks and pull down my book from Dropbox or my own server, and can post my homework before I roll some twenties with my friends. When I started college this was what I was looking for out of a laptop. Small, light, good batt life, and able to keep up with my typing. Woo... sleep time now.

SW:RPG Players needed.

I have always wanted to play this with people. Most of the time, however, I cannot seem to find a group willing to keep going for longer than one or two sessions. People just don't seem to be that into the Star Wars RPG thing. I like the D&D group I'm in right now, but would like to run my own campaign. I would like to use the Dawn of Defiance setting as the over-arching storyline with some of my own adventures sprinkled within to keep the players busy.

Right now it is just a thought in my head. No players to speak of, and other than having downloaded the campaign and no follow up/replacement for players who drive without rails adventures this will remain on the whiteboard for a little while longer.