Thud.

I don't know how many words I wrote but I finished 135, which is 1426 words. Most of that was today, call it about a thousand. Haven't started 136 because I think I got tnh's headache through some sort of sympathetic internet resonance.

My characters keep throwing anime imagery at me. For scenes I haven't written yet, which may not be anything resembling the image-form when I write them. I need to write them down so that I can get them out of my head and write until I get to where they're relevant. So I'm doing that here. (Should warn: this seems to want to plot itself in the 'So, what's the worst thing I can do to these people?' style.)

( His and Hers Anime-Styled Angst Imagery: His )

( His and Hers Anime-Styled Angst Imagery: Hers )

Head hurt. Sleep soon.

Well.

We'll see if I had a one-day migraine that fled before mighty Tylenol and sleep, or whether it's merely waiting for the evening to return like they've been doing lately. (For values of 'lately' of 'the last few years'.)

Fun with migraines!

If you suffer from insomnia, close your eyes and try to make patterns out of your visual hallucinations! Just like finding zoo animals in clouds, but within the comfort of your own home! Now in colour!

(I did find myself muttering about how the visual hallucinations were there whether or not I had my eyes open; the lighting was such that it was actually hard to tell from observation which was the case. Unfortunately, I do not have a naked wife to interrupt visions, and perhaps that only works on angels.)

Desktop Meme Thing

Because I'm easily amused. Nicked from jenett and brooksmoses.

( Desktop image cut )

Why that background?

Well, a while back I was talking with the gang and had this really great idea for an image of Ht-Hrw. And realised that, well, I had nowhere near the artistic skill to do it. And then I thought, "But I know someone who does, and I think it's right up her alley."

So I contacted ursulav for a commission, and that was the result. She sent me a print of it, and a .jpg copy. And I said, "Hmm, what do I do with a .jpg?" and set it as my desktop. :) Every so often I hit F11 to clear my screen so I can see Her expression of delighted, "All this for me?"

Why is your toolbar where it is?

Because anywhere else I put it it was in my way. I keep MacSOUP aligned with the left edge of my screen, as well as several Eudora windows; I use all the vertical territory. Off to the right it's not interfering.

What's on the toolbar and why?

Top to bottom: The finder window opener thing, MacSOUP, Eudora, Terminal, Mozilla, iJournal, Mega Minesweeper, ZWrite, BBEdit, Civilization III, two games I haven't loaded since I changed computers (Tropico, dominions), the System Prefs opener, Appleworks, GraphicConverter, iTunes, Safari, nitfol.

The top four default to being open all the time that I'm using the computer. I open it up and go click click click click right down the line. Newsreader, mail, tinyfugue, web. (Mozilla's homepage is my front journal page, which I've modified to have links to the things I read routinely, including window-opening links to the forums I read.)

iJournal is my LJ client. Minesweeper is my default timewaster. ZWrite is my default writing program; I never close it. It contains not only the WIP, the Fairly Standard Man notes, and a couple of other writing projects, but the character stats and information for several roleplaying characters. At the moment only the WIP is open of that. BBEdit I use for short stories, though not often. The three games are things I've played regularly in the past and may do again. System Prefs is because I got irritated at fishing for it and put it there so when I wanted it it was easy to get to. Appleworks and GraphicConverter are for other projects; I use GC much more often. iTunes is on whenever I'm not in the living room, almost always on random-all. Safari I use for a few specific rare web things that get grumpy at Mozilla. nitfol is a player for Infocom flatfiles, and at the bottom so I don't click on it by accident.

What the desktop icons are:

Mostly stuff that I haven't gotten around to filing somewhere more intelligent. The disk icon and the quotes file icon are supposed to be there. The disk image is for a game I need to actually properly install and register. The PDFs are downloads (gaming, miscellaneous, BU application) except for one that's apparently a screenshot image. One of the folders is an OS9 legacy, one an on-disk backup of my Eudora files from a while back, and one the remnant of one of my attempts to find Rogue by Epyx. Every so often I decide my desktop is too cluttered and go on a mad cleaning binge; I don't use it much.