Month: September 2004

I just hadta. (when I realized that the laptop has a slot for the same kind of card as my camera….)

# yesterday, sat outside and did some fiction writing. no wifi; bad config on my part, but that was probably a good thing. I’m too distractable.
# today, worked at home with it on the big table in the front room: bright yellow network cable plugged into the router. at some point, I’m going to have to make that a little more elegant, I think.
# also, went downtown to the new B&B. rode my bike down, which was entirely rad; it fits into the “laptop” backpack that C gave me for my birthday _7 years ago_ just about perfectly. no wifi there yet, which was sort of annoying; I did get some offline things done, though. next week, it should be set up. I’ll definitely be going back.
# and now I’m sitting out on the patio, blogging (of course) and listening to KUOW. it’s a bit of a trial to find a spot that works well with the sun and shade of the south yard, but entirely worth it to be typing while looking at a cosmos in full bloom, a pair of little bitty sunflowers, and a little girl riding past on her bike. 🙂

our network is still a little sketchy, though, the DSL dropping in and out seemingly at random, the wifi being frustrating to get working just right, and XP wanting to do whatever it is that it wants to do. (no mac flames, please; we have what we have, and there are (mostly) good reasons why.)

but this is nice, if potentially even _more_ addictive than cable TV was, back when we had such a thing.

although it was not quite so obnoxious as Mark’s experience last summer, spending the evening wiping and reinstalling a friend’s operating system wasn’t (isn’t, as I’m not done yet) the most fun thing.

I learned a few things, tho, and I was very happy to have more computers around connected to the Internet. (I rediscovered Mark’s entry whilst googling on “reinstall windows xp”, btw.)

in any case, now I have a plan for all the little fussy things that ought to be done with all the computers under our care at the moment.

I like taking the bus in the morning to meet the van. it’s quiet time by myself, esp. if I have my headphones.

I’m blogging wirelessly from the back room of the house on a new laptop. this is about the most rad thing EVAR. 😉

so, yay.

(instead of trying to embed it in the page.)

logo_hdr.gif

well, that’s odd. it’s not actually uploading the file. (was that a permissions problem?)

the whole sending an image thing is just a mess. three tries with three different method, and nothing is working quite right. (oh, and reminder to self: here’s the one I’m using.) I’m going to have her try a message w/out images, just to see how the text is doing.

this is where I am now…

* the text comes through fine…
* except for some weird line break stuff (although I’m wondering if she’d written a fresh one, instead of forwarding, whether it would’ve done okay)
* the attachments aren’t working — okay, attachments in general are working, but there’s something wonky with the images.

okay, so this should get me a good permalink, at least.

# it’s using my Textile settings, apparently
# but the permalink seems to be broken (is that because of my
permalink settings, which are different that the projects?)

I’m trying this again.

* what works?
* what doesn”t?

to start with, I can’t post from my work address, which seems a little odd.