A late night ramble

[railenthe]

 

Night.

Sunday.

The laundry rests in the machine, waiting for me to catch up with it and put it in the dryer. My back files complaints against the rest of my body. A cat sits on one foot--just the one, because the other rests on the floor. A helping of herb waits for me on the lap desk, just waiting for me to fire up the IQ and take it.

The backdrop is stars; the background musical ambience is a spacey, melodic drone.

I compose this update in OmmWriter 3 (the Gaia edition.) Its ability to block out distractions is a blessing. I find myself immersed in the boring task of just...saying something.

I'm tired. Today I don't have much to say at all. I'm not sure if I got enough sleep or too much sleep.

I'm not looking forward to work in the morning. I'd much rather take vacation and rest. But I'm saving my vacation days for a trip that should be coming, but I'm not sure about its status. The pandemic makes travel a dicey endeavor.

This music is wonderful. Though right now I prefer the last version, something tells me that this will grow on me...like the backdrops are doing right now. As well as the sound of the typing feedback.

Wait, I know what my current setup reminds me of: the opening title crawl from Star Wars.

Nothing interesting happened all weekend, save for today, when I helped someone important to me with their graphics for their comic. Nothing fancy--I just made the title banner. But it's interesting how often the skills I picked up by just being a damn memelord have come in handy for someone else, too. Hell, I didn't really think much of my skills, but apparently they're not all that bad--and this is according to people who work with this stuff.

...perhaps I should give myself more credit.

Am I rambling right now? Maybe. But things have been on my mind, and lately the only way to get them out of my system is to write until my brain just shuts up. That tends to take a while.

It's another half hour before my clothes are ready to dry. I think that I'll lay down for that, set an alarm, and get them then. My pain levels aren't very good to me right now, and I can feel the signal that says I've said all that I can for the day.

...have a great sleep everyone. Good night.

EDIT: I probably should show y'all what OmmWriter looks like.



Note to the note: my display is huge. ^^;

Comments

[ceiling_fan]

What is ommwrite like? I got a few years to misery but I can't wait til I can actually enjoy my life again.

[railenthe]

Here's an example of what it looks like.

It is barebones--a few font options, a few font size options, background picker, music picker, keyboard noise picker, options to save as the proprietary file format, options to export in RTF, TXT, and even to convert to a PDF.

I think the big draw though is the complete immersion. Nothing exists but your writing and mouse pointer--which will soon fade out of your awareness.

If you hover over the work area you get wordcount.

Use markdown to add italics, bold, and if your're feeling peachy, BOLD ITALICS.

Note: there is no markdown for underline, but really, are we using it that much?

Gimme half a second and I'll add a picture of the UI to the entry. For some reason DW hasn't gotten that fancy reply box yet and I can't do it from here.

EDIT: LOL DUMB FACT: my display is so large that a full screenshot exceeds post size. I had to shrink it by half.

[ceiling_fan]

Ok this is hella cool!

[railenthe]

It seriously is. I pop into it to make a quick update and before I know it I'm 800 words in.

Ok idk what happened but the image is gone.

[railenthe]

I'm gonna have to try again!