The Future

What is up with the world? I just don’t get it. Sometimes when I see the future of the world in the context of what is happening in the here and now and what we are doing to prepare for the future, it freaks me out. Why don’t we listen to the warnings? What are we doing to the environment? What are we doing to each other? How do we expect the future to unfold when we act as though there isn’t one?

How Can This be?

Okay, I now have our souped up computer upstairs. I have a desk. I have a monitor that is so big that, seriously, I could create an ‘a’ the size of my noggin. I have surround sound and a pile of music. I have a nice mouse. I have a nice wireless keyboard. I have my cup of tea. I have a window. I have my email all set up again. I even have one less thing to procrastinate as my hubby moved all my website files from jeanoram.com over to Dreamweaver for me. (Still haven’t progressed past chapter 2 in the manual though.)

What I don’t have is the desire to edit. I have a two hour window where I can just get to it and what am I doing? I am blogging.

Why? Is it because I don’t have the comfy couch where I am balancing my laptop and a cup of tea while being flanked by two cats? Is it because I am facing a wall? Is it because this chair is hard as cow sh*t left out in the sun to bake and flake?

My old Workspace

My New Workspace

Hmm…maybe if I make the font really big and the wireless keyboard and mouse reaches far enough, I can sit on the hide-a-bed and edit. Then it will almost be like old times.

Or maybe I’ll just blare some punk on my surround sound. (Is it sad that my monitor has better resolution than my television and that I have surround sound on my computer?) I never said I wasn’t a geek. For Heaven’s sake, I was emailing before it was even a Windows based application. There is no hope for me…

Maybe there is hope…I just tried to resize the pictures I took of my used to be office–the couch–and my now office and because I am in Vista and everything is different including my photo program, I gave up. Really easily. I’d rather edit than learn yet another new photo program and how to resize pictures YET again. Why the hell does this family always have to buy the latest and greatest tech crap anyway? Why can’t all our computers just be the same already? <Sigh.>

How To End It

When it comes to the end of my manuscripts, I always falter. I tend to just cut it off. There done. Put it away.

Obviously, this is a less than ideal way to end a hundred-thousand word story.

So, I was reading and came across the answer. I want the full circle effect, that is what I have been ‘circling’ around in my mind. Therefore, I need the reappearance of a word or phrase. So, I did it and it is much better now. It feels done, finished, and there is a certain satisfaction in that as both a reader and a writer.

The End.

Coincidental?

Mystery of the Day: Was it coincidental?

After doing some online banking and preparing to enter a writing contest, my laptop had a fatal seizure.

Was is coincidental, or did I simply let the lightning out of my eyes again?