The Bucket O' Nothing

Firefox crashed on me for the first time today. I think it got overwhelmed by the number of extensions I installed, and had to go and lie down with a damp towel on its forehead for a few minutes while I let Mozilla know what had happened. I found out it keeps a crash counter.

Today I'm planning to go over my Korean vocabulary, because it's very embarrassing to be asked by the teacher to come up with an answer to a question and have to admit that you don't know the word for "you". But other than that, not much to report. I have a few ideas for this November's novel, though I'm not going to think too much about it. I like the feeling of making parts up just in time for the next chapter. And in the vein of NaNoWriMo, back to Livia and Daniel as they get to Anford.

( Chapter 4, 'The Great Fair'. )

Not quite sure what to put here as a preamble. I'm posting this before I go to restart and see if Adobe Acrobat Reader will actually work for me rather than opening, then immediately quitting with an illegal operation. Could be that it takes exception to the security patches I installed and haven't restarted for yet.

And then I can attempt to get some ability to write in Korean. I get the feeling it'll take even more work than getting Japanese working, because Windows seems happy enough with two different languages (it runs in a Japanese locale), but I'm not sure if it'll be happy trying to do three at once.

Enough of the computer, and back to Daniel, Livia and some bad weather.

( Chapter 2, 'Rain'. )

I had a minor panic this morning as I checked the college's bandwidth charts and discovered I'd apparently used 6 gigabytes of external traffic. Now, I could understand downloading 2 gigabytes (I'm usually downloading rather large video files, for the musicals I haven't got good versions of yet), but 4 gigabytes upload? I'm sure I'd remember that sort of traffic, but I had no idea what it could be.

Lots of panic followed, stopping downloads, checking what was running on my computer, trying to figure out what to say to our computing service to explain why it looked like I'd done twice the daily allowance, but I couldn't have...

...and then one of the people I was panicking at about this wondered if I'd misread the IP listed. And I checked. And I had. I was actually nestled in 14th place on the chart, with a total bandwidth use of under 400 MB for the day.

So, whoever you are who has an IP that's one digit off mine in one of the places, I wish you best of luck with the CS. And thanks for inadvertantly making me panic and wake up properly on a lazy weekend morning. Did me good. :)

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And incidentally, FinNoWriMo has produced results... just not a finished story. Yet. I'm about halfway through the next scene, so I'll put that up here and on the website when it's done. Also, aqouli, thanks for the note about the mistakes in the last chapter - I checked through it, and there were two or three that were quite embarrassingly obvious. I'll correct them the next time I upload.

Just got back from a a family trip to see one of my dad's schoolfriends. We went to lots and lots of churches: my dad is what we term a "church-crawler". Some people's fathers go and look at old trains, he looks at church architecture. Since I got to stay in the car while he did this, I've managed to keep up with writing.

If you'd like to read what I've done of my novel, 'After Forever', so far, it's available on this site. From now on, I'll be posting new scenes here once I've finished them, behind LJ-cuts (as they will be quite large).

I'll also try to summarise what's happened so far if people request it, though I'm having difficulties with summarising the idea behind the story at all. (How do you summarise something that is, in essence, about a huge library and people who are in some way connected to it?)

( Chapter 10, 'Memories'. )