I can haz a car! And other mid-morning ramblings...

[byslantedlight]

Hurrah and hurrah! And what was the problem in the end? Dead battery... Turns out that modern batteries don't give you any warning that they're about to cark it, they just do. Wee car had never given me any problems starting, so it never occurred to me it might be the battery... So - bloody phew. A much-more-reasonable-sum-of-money-later, I can go again. I like going... *g*

Speaking of which - should I be counting down? 24 sleeps until I'm sleeping on a plane, if I should... Eeeep! Boxes! Books! Fic! Shelves! Stuff!

And should I do NaNoWriMo this year? I missed it the year I didn't do it (cos I was in Australia that time too - huh), but on the other hand this time I'll be trying to work and pack and work and travel and work and do the family thing and... Will it even be possible? I've not yet signed up and then failed, and I don't want to break the magic of 50k in a month... The other thing is that it probably wouldn't be Pros this time, just cos I think it's probably about time to write some of the other stuff that's tucked into my head... Which means I expect anyone reading this paragraph is now thinking what a waste of reading a paragraph that was... But - oh, hmmmn, what-to-do, what-to-do...?

This amused me in the paper this morning. Yes and yes. It continues into a bit that ends with cappaccino, and although I'd prefer a latte (I'm so 2000s) I'd say yes and yes again...
"It's not just the volume of emails that's ever increasing, it's also the way we can receive them. With smartphones you are never more than a second away from an email. Soon we will be able to receive them without lifting a finger, with the messages going straight into our head which, funnily enough, is exactly like talking to people." (23/10/2013)

Okay - end of excuse not to get on... My room is devastation, and yet not nearly devastation enough, and I have an argh of a job to finish before I'm allowed to get up from this seat. Which explains, of course, why I'm on lj.

How're you on this blustery autumn day?

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent - well done! (Looks good to me in the post at your own lj).

And no worries - two things really helpful to know about lj-netiquette: it's best to always reply to comments, and its best to always use an lj-cut if your post is long! *g*

Last page, then just the re-checks. Then I can start today's work...

[giseerouchon.livejournal.com]

done yet? Well cheers, good advice as ever....x

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

good advice as ever....
Aye...? That rather sounds like I've given you advice before, when I didn't think we'd "met"...? Who am I talking to, here?!

[giseerouchon.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... mainly advice about LJ cuts and technical issues... although I have been known to Palely-Loiter around the place a bit! You may have seen me about as Gisee Rouchon, or possibly as my alter-ego Le Panayi? Who are you when you're at home then? xx

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah - no, it was just the way you said it, made me think we must have had a conversation about lj-cuts or the like before! I okayed your loiteringpalely request, cos your lj was alive and being Pros-y, and I usually write to people at the same time to say hi, but don't think I did this time!

Me? I write Pros as Slantedlight, and otherwise I'm just byslantedlight, only me... *g*