Random Chaos

I’ll admit it right now: I am having a love affair with fountain pens now.

Since getting one for Christmas/Solstice, I’ve been enamored once again of writing in longhand. I might post samples of my handwriting later.

It’s so smooth. And pretty. And even makes my printing look classy.

I’ll have to make pictures.

I want more now.

I will probably have to use one of my refills today. I’ve filled a notebook with concepts and drafts.

I’ve inadvertently stumbled on a rather effective fix for writer’s block.

This entry is about fifteen percent rant and the rest is update. XD Just so you are warned fairly.

I got to get some time online on one of the non-designated days today. Turned out that the dishes that should have been washed had not been washed, so I volunteered for some time on the computer. I think I have a strategy for one of these. I will bank my bribed online time, and use it for a day to work on the ::dramatic pause:: CROSSOVER FICCY OF DOOM! FUAHAHAHAHAH! …Ahem. Right.

Anyway, I did some downloading spam today. Got some music that makes muses go flailing about. That is the idea, anyway.

And on a technical side – I’m running out of disk space on meh comp! Aah! I think I have about 500 mb remaining.

…Yeah. AAH!

In my defense I have a puny 6 gig hard disk. Go me.

To end this spam-tastic update, I have a piece of advice for all my readers who also happen to write: Listening to Sting while writing angst = dangerous. Listening to Sola Sistim by Underworld while writing angst = haven’t tried that one. Although it came up in smut. @.@

Well, I got booted off my comp last night early. That left me with little to do. Plotting doesn’t take as much time as it used to…ehehehe. So I had to do something now that I was done plotting, and so I decided to listen to music. But I was tired of my headphones getting all glitchy if I decided to move my head a bit differently than usual, so something had to be done. The little direct-feed from my old speakers wasn’t cutting it either. Computer speakers are usually better when they have a power feed going into them, and since I didn’t have that…subpar sound. Whee.

So something had to be done. I got bored. Very bored. When you get bored, weird ideas tend to pop up. So I got one of said weird ideas. I have this weird speaker-wire thingy: it’s got the left and right audio thingies for speakers, but the other end looks like a standard headphone plug. Something that would fit into the back of a computer…or a CD player’s headphone jack.

So I had to try it.

I couldn’t see what I was doing—so I had to go off of feel, plugging the thing into the back of the television and guessing that one of them was an audio in-feed. (Yes, it is one of those ancient machines with everything in the back still. XD) After finding one of the blasted things, I put the television’s tuner to the AV-in setting, and turned on the CD player.

Holy crap, I have CD music going through my little walkman CD player.

This morning, I tried it with the computer feeds, and voila, I’ve got decent sound (it IS a puny television after all) from my computer going through the TV.

Am I colossal dork for this? Yes.

Do I care? No. After all, I’ve got sound again. So YAY!

OK. So I just got myself a BitTorrent client and found two of the video game soundtracks that I have been hunting for somewhere around—holy crap, about eight years now. Sure, it’s unofficial, but I can’t be picky and unemployed. That would just be ridiculous. So I’m setting up to download these—actually in the process now, the connection slowed down since one of the seeds timed out.

I just heard, as well, that there is a CD-RW drive on the back of my dad’s truck at work. Lucky as I am, he’s a connection to my technology fixes. So I might be getting a CD-RW drive if I managed to pounce on it quickly enough.

He’s not much on the techno-savvy, but even if it isn’t what I need, it’s still cause for a reaction of ‘omg yay’ since I will soon have access to the music that I was hunting down for so long. Ah, the music that my muses first began working on fic to…it’s sounding good.

Well, figuratively. I still need a soundcard driver. Or a new soundcard.

But I might have both soon, so…huzzah?