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So, while I'm working on getting my computer up and running again I made a decision: I will be getting that machine up and running again, but when push comes to shove, the main thing that I will be worrying about is to make sure that I have money stashed away to get a newer, more powerful machine. I'll probably upgrade the hard disk on the older machine anyway, and make use of it as a workstation; the newer machine will be the workhorse, with the internets and junk.
Of course that's assuming that I'm totally borked. If I'm not *totally* borked, then I will come up with a different plan…that's really not what brought me here today, though.
Since I'm mostly offline lately, I've been writing again a lot in an old spiral notebook, kind of sort of enjoying the look of my longhand again. I'd almost forgotten how to write things by hand and keep them legible. I DID forget that when I write longhand, if the sheet of paper isn't nearly upside down, I can't write a straight line. I don't know why that is, it just is.
All of my low-tech solutions got me to thinking that I should probably be checking out something else: a new way to keep track of my budget. While the scans are still going (because they are still going as I write!) I'll have to make sure that I can keep track of my cash to do things with. In addition to getting myself wired again I have to keep track of how much dinero I'm carrying at any given time. I don't mean actually *carrying,* since I've been keeping things in the bank and using a card when I actually need to do something—no, I'm just thinking of what I've got at any given time or another. I'll get a balance today and make sure that I can actually do what *needs* to be done before anything else gets taken care off. Which reminds me, I've got to make sure that I have room enough and time enough to cook enough lunch to keep me fed for at least six hours at work lately. I've been having the problem that, when I bring food to work, that it's never enough, and I wind up having to order out again, eating some more of my money out of my slowly shrinking monthly leisure budget.
I didn't even treat myself to new music last month. Now THAT is weird.
I did do research on herbs. I guess you could argue that it was my research that got me into trouble. I closed a client of my AV software that I thought wasn't being used that day, and it back-doored me. Never mind that I never even USE MS Outlook online, but that's how the worst of the bugs got in. Yeep.
I've had a number of original ideas, and a number of ficcage ideas. I've been thinking about using my days off to find a local library, get a new library card (remember, I did move out again…) and spending the day off writing and working on things like that. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, but it's something that I should remember the next time that I can't get at a machine with software more advanced that Wordpad.
Not that there's anything wrong with the program…proper formatting of quotes and junk tends to be a pain though. I can only "Alt+blah blah blah" so often in one post before I get annoyed.
Of course that's assuming that I'm totally borked. If I'm not *totally* borked, then I will come up with a different plan…that's really not what brought me here today, though.
Since I'm mostly offline lately, I've been writing again a lot in an old spiral notebook, kind of sort of enjoying the look of my longhand again. I'd almost forgotten how to write things by hand and keep them legible. I DID forget that when I write longhand, if the sheet of paper isn't nearly upside down, I can't write a straight line. I don't know why that is, it just is.
All of my low-tech solutions got me to thinking that I should probably be checking out something else: a new way to keep track of my budget. While the scans are still going (because they are still going as I write!) I'll have to make sure that I can keep track of my cash to do things with. In addition to getting myself wired again I have to keep track of how much dinero I'm carrying at any given time. I don't mean actually *carrying,* since I've been keeping things in the bank and using a card when I actually need to do something—no, I'm just thinking of what I've got at any given time or another. I'll get a balance today and make sure that I can actually do what *needs* to be done before anything else gets taken care off. Which reminds me, I've got to make sure that I have room enough and time enough to cook enough lunch to keep me fed for at least six hours at work lately. I've been having the problem that, when I bring food to work, that it's never enough, and I wind up having to order out again, eating some more of my money out of my slowly shrinking monthly leisure budget.
I didn't even treat myself to new music last month. Now THAT is weird.
I did do research on herbs. I guess you could argue that it was my research that got me into trouble. I closed a client of my AV software that I thought wasn't being used that day, and it back-doored me. Never mind that I never even USE MS Outlook online, but that's how the worst of the bugs got in. Yeep.
I've had a number of original ideas, and a number of ficcage ideas. I've been thinking about using my days off to find a local library, get a new library card (remember, I did move out again…) and spending the day off writing and working on things like that. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, but it's something that I should remember the next time that I can't get at a machine with software more advanced that Wordpad.
Not that there's anything wrong with the program…proper formatting of quotes and junk tends to be a pain though. I can only "Alt+blah blah blah" so often in one post before I get annoyed.
