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Computer will be fixed soon. It was a software crash, not a hardware failure. Still gonna be costly, but no more so than the price I thought I'd have to pay for a hardware fix. (Why a software fix should cost so much, I do not know. Makes me slightly suspicious, but nothing I can do about it now). And I can't even have my data extracted from the ( Read more... ) -
Book review time: E.Godz, by Robert Asprin & Esther Friesner
I apologise for the lack of a cut for length here. Every time I try cutting the text to hide it, LJ keeps moving the cut to the *top* of the post, out of order. Can't figure out how to stop that ( Read more... ) -
New book reviews
A week after I moved, my computer died. I think it's the power source again. I hope to have it fixed soon. In the meantime, without the distraction of the net (though I can do things on my housemates' computers or at the library, somewhat), and with time to kill on my new job during breaks or the random piece of downtime, I have been reading again ( Read more... ) -
Overdue update
Due to long-term stress and little news to share other than mostly the same old bad news, I've not bothered to post anything in some time. Recently however my life turned upside down again, only this time things are a bit improved. First off, I have a job finally this past week! Ok, it's just a temp job for a month or two, maybe longer. No idea if ( Read more... ) -
Capricon 31
Well another convention has come and gone, my fourth since moving to Illinois. Gone now are the days of getting only one weekend a year to relax and escape reality, now I have 4 or 5 opportunities! I'm living the dream! This one was my first ever four-day-long convention, running from Thursday evening through mid-Sunday afternoon.
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Amazing how much TV you can watch without a TV service...
2010 was the Year of the DVD for me. Shortly after signing on with Netflix last January, I wound up spending a lot of time cocooned when things went bad in Buffalo, and I continued to do that the first several months in Illinois (though not as much as I was then in a safer place). I had little access to TV in Buffalo, and none here in Illinois... ( Read more... ) -
Here we go again
A new year has begun. I am praying this year brings better things. I want a job. I want to build new relationships that I can count on. I want a start to the end of the debts Janet stuck me with. I want to be sure I can keep a roof over my head. Most of all, I want things to not get worse than they already are ( Read more... ) -
Another literary meme to pass along
A literary meme, via robling_t : "The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, underline what you've read more than one, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt."
Personal score: 15 (tho I admit I'm not 100% sure about Charlotte's Web)
I have re- ( Read more... )
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