no promises

well, laptop is nearly back to real footing. I'm missing Word, so any work is still happening on the PC or big laptop, and after using Word 97-03 for a few days, I'm looking forward to getting back to Word 2007...

but I did accomplish a lot this weekend, The Bubble Torture now sitting at a sleek 87K. 87,688 and well, who knows. I have no objectivity, but I do have most of my sites sorted. today's tasking (since I worked all weekend!) is to...

big sigh...

sort itunes...

not getting it full of tunes, that's sorted. we backed up all my files, and they came on just right! only lost a few, maybe less than a hundred, (including Stevie Wonder's Talking Book!!) and Bob is stumped... where are they?

well, no matter. what is going to take much of my time, here and there, are filling playlists...

I live by playlists. not only for personal pleasure, but ideas, fodder, inspiration, the backbone of many a story.

and I mean many...

right now 44 playlists sit on my itunes, a third of those related to manuscripts I've already written. another dozen or so are ideas that will see the light of day, one of these months. the rest are playlists just for me, plus the 'songs for a future idea' which is filling as I type. that was one I didn't back up, and now I'm letting the random setting do the trick.

fortunately a list I hadn't scribbled down was safe in my ipod, ancient thing, but recently updated, and I popped those tunes (for Alvin's Farm) into their playlist last night. what was crazy, with the restarting of my laptop, was that itunes saved all my playlist names. I don't have to type those out again, just need to slide music into each appropriate list.

such is the life of a writer....

but I really did get a lot accomplished over the weekend. it was HOT here in Silicon Valley (pushing triple digits F), but the A/C kept us cool, Jay to a friend's house for pool time, and Bob and I just pottered about, me on various PC's, reading and slashing, he worked out, watched the tube, picked up dinner (Texas Smokehouse BBQ, so good!!) and then poked about with this machine when I needed assistance. I did laundry too, plus there were excerpts from the contest to read, playlists to sort, more than I could get to in one weekend.

sometimes it's like that, a deluge, where last week I was sort of bored out of my mind. but last week I did read a great interview here, Nathan Bransford with S.E. Hinton.

if you've EVER read The Outsiders, Tex, Rumblefish or my fave, That Was Then, This Is Now, check out the interview. she's great, in so many ways...

this is scattered, and I do apologize. been listening to some oldies, from the mid-80's, Love is a Battlefield, Shout, Jeopardy, Nightshift, Solitaire, America, and one not so old...

White & Nerdy. I have a fondness for Weird Al.... eBay is great too...

okay, this would just continue for ages, but I'll quit now while I'm slightly ahead... please, today, back up your important files!! you just never know...