Important Writing Tip: If you decide to update your stories on an archive (that you kind of forgot you had them on) and need to use a different HTML tag than the one you just laboriously replaced your ancient ASCII asterisks with, make sure you copy the files to the new working folder. That way, when you inevitably screw up the search and replace ( ( Read more... )

I am approaching a state of readiness for my journey west. I am slightly more ready than I'd anticipated being today, because I made my last-minute run for last-minute items today instead of tomorrow. I had no intention of setting foot in any store the day after Christmas, but about two this afternoon I heard a thump downstairs. A few seconds after ( Read more... )

I just learned that schadenkatze died in a house fire early this morning. lunaris1013 will be collecting donations until the end of the month for her twin schaden_freude, who survived the fire.

I never met schadenkatze or schaden_freude in person, but they have nonetheless been a part of my life for over twelve years. Signal boost this to fellow SSCers if you can, and please help if you're able.

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I have completed Phase One of the vacation process. For several years, my mother and stepdad have been mailing their luggage instead of checking it on the plane. They started by mailing one bag because they couldn't fit their metric crapton of ski gear into the checked bag allowance, and then eventually realized that just mailing off the bulk of ( Read more... )

( Here's what my family is doing right now )

So, remember my post about how my sister was going to have to detour around the two (2) landslides that were blocking her passage over the Smokies? And that it would make her getting home for Thanksgiving more difficult? Well, now she's going to have to make the detour while recovering from swine flu. She's feeling a lot better now, but this really ( Read more... )

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Just a little plug for Desert Bus for Hope 3. If you've never heard of this, it's a fundraiser for Child's Play, a charity that donates toys and games to children's hospitals across North America.

How the fundraiser works: A group of gamers volunteer to play Desert Bus, the most boring and pointless video game ever in exchange for donations. The ( Read more... )

One thing I forgot to share in the previous post was the issue I had with the beginning and end notes on AO3, and how I got around them. This is a known issue, but I hadn't seen any information on this particular workaround and thought I would share my experiences ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm sort of caught up with all my immediate things-I-want-to-be-caught-up-on. I have hit my NaNoWriMo goal for today (35,106 words!), and if I just write a little more than 1,000 words a day I'll get it done.

I have also uploaded all my stories to Archive of Our Own. So far, I'm pretty happy with it. I didn't have any technical problems ( Read more... )