dreams, printing, words...
Oct. 27th, 2009 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateToday I am pleased that, when awake, it is not necessary for me to hose down pink & purple flashing LED kittens with sedative lest they continue to eat people and reproduce in a spore-like manner in the hotel room carpeting. (A task which I took on after being called away from attending the dress rehearsal of someone else's wedding, at a convention held in some form of faerieland, while the person I'd dragged along when it first began to seem like there was something wrong made a search for proper radioactive kitten exterminators.) I am less pleased that I appear to have slept crookedly, thus making my neck hurt.
I am also less than pleased that the printer is too glamorous for scrap paper. It has never, in my experience, fed properly; usually it just tells me that it hasn't got any paper when in fact it has a whole stack, but sometimes it goes on to feed three or four pages through at once so that what I wanted to print ends up on parts of several of them. Today it rebelled, and after consistently feeding through multiple pages at a time, so that of the seven or eight pages it *did* print, I have three discontinuous usable ones, it has now decided that despite all visible evidence and as intense a cleaning as possible given its lack of interior access, it continues to have a paper jam. I have refrained from throwing it across the room in the hope that this might assist, but I'm afraid it's PDF and office supply store time, since I won't trust it to print 85 pages even after someone breaks out the tools to take it apart. (Although, as what I was attempting to print was a proof & working from copy of last year's NaNo, I suppose getting it bound wouldn't be a horrible thing to do.)
Meanwhile, I have finished making glove-like things for other people, and contemplate making another pair for me, now that I've sorted out the pattern. Also, having tallied the previous year nano stats that I still have (the first year tracker went with the novel, of course) I am half-trying to talk myself into doubling my goal for this year. I'm not sure if it can be done, as catching up once I got behind would be exponentially more difficult, given my previous daily word count stats. On the other hand, the "leave home to write" option seems to work tremendously better than my previous approaches, and I've even got decent battery life for once... we shall see. (I say that a lot, don't I?) I might just try typing "120000" into my tracker, and see how many days I can keep up with 4k.
I am also less than pleased that the printer is too glamorous for scrap paper. It has never, in my experience, fed properly; usually it just tells me that it hasn't got any paper when in fact it has a whole stack, but sometimes it goes on to feed three or four pages through at once so that what I wanted to print ends up on parts of several of them. Today it rebelled, and after consistently feeding through multiple pages at a time, so that of the seven or eight pages it *did* print, I have three discontinuous usable ones, it has now decided that despite all visible evidence and as intense a cleaning as possible given its lack of interior access, it continues to have a paper jam. I have refrained from throwing it across the room in the hope that this might assist, but I'm afraid it's PDF and office supply store time, since I won't trust it to print 85 pages even after someone breaks out the tools to take it apart. (Although, as what I was attempting to print was a proof & working from copy of last year's NaNo, I suppose getting it bound wouldn't be a horrible thing to do.)
Meanwhile, I have finished making glove-like things for other people, and contemplate making another pair for me, now that I've sorted out the pattern. Also, having tallied the previous year nano stats that I still have (the first year tracker went with the novel, of course) I am half-trying to talk myself into doubling my goal for this year. I'm not sure if it can be done, as catching up once I got behind would be exponentially more difficult, given my previous daily word count stats. On the other hand, the "leave home to write" option seems to work tremendously better than my previous approaches, and I've even got decent battery life for once... we shall see. (I say that a lot, don't I?) I might just try typing "120000" into my tracker, and see how many days I can keep up with 4k.
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Date: 2009-10-28 05:03 pm (UTC)Hope the writing goes well. I'm with you on the leaving the house thing ... but unfortunately I'm not often motivate enough to leave said house, Sigh!
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Date: 2009-10-28 06:50 pm (UTC)This is why we have NaNo. Because several thousand other people are doing the same thing, and you can't let them beat you...
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Date: 2009-10-29 03:27 pm (UTC)