I saw forever in my never
Jan. 31st, 2010 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aithneI am ever so slowly digging myself out from under a pile of Things Wot Must Be Done. Yesterday was an errand day, as I'd gotten some money for selling a story and was bound and determined to spend at leat some of it. I popped up to Seattle and went to Camera Techs, where I had my camera cleaned (cleaning a CCD, the camera's sensor, is not for the faint of heart, and I vastly prefer to let the professionals handle it) and bought a new filter for my main lens. The guy who sold me the lens was a brusque charmer with an accent I couldn't quite identify (Galway by way of Boston, perhaps?) who minced no words telling me that my filter was crap. I told him I knew, and would he please sell me a new one?
So! Nice new filter. Multi-coated, weather-resistant, all that good stuff.
I stopped by U Village while I was waiting for my camera to be finished. Sony declared my ebook reader obsolete a few months ago, and my choice was to either send it in for refurbishing or trade it in for a discount on a new one. So I am now the owner of a Sony Reader Pocket Edition. I was totally the easiest commission that the guy who waited on me made all day. I came in and knew what I wanted, what color I wanted it in, and I even bought the extended warranty. (wise, for a piece of electronics that goes everywhere with me.) The Reader is shiny and silver and even smaller than my previous one, so it'll fit into smaller purses.
And U Village now has a Trohpy Cupcakes outlet, so I had to stop and have a cupcake.
I tried to find a quiet place to work on the crits I'd brought with me, but there is one thing that U Village is lacking on a Saturday morning, and that is quiet spots in which to do a bit of work. I bagged the attempt, collected my camera, and came home.
This morning, I'm finishing crits for this afternoon, since I kind of ran out of steam last night, and then perhaps there will be some coffee and a shower and more wrestling with Word of the Chosen. I had forgotten how much trouble the protagonist of this book is. She is a very difficult character for me to really empathize with in the beginning, which makes being inside her head duly uncomfortable. She gets better eventually, but the first four chapters at least are going to be a bit of a slog because of it. (And a slog now pays off in dividends later, because this character has echoes through all of the rest of the books in the series.)
Perhaps I'll take my new, clean camera for a test spin and think about writing some more.
So! Nice new filter. Multi-coated, weather-resistant, all that good stuff.
I stopped by U Village while I was waiting for my camera to be finished. Sony declared my ebook reader obsolete a few months ago, and my choice was to either send it in for refurbishing or trade it in for a discount on a new one. So I am now the owner of a Sony Reader Pocket Edition. I was totally the easiest commission that the guy who waited on me made all day. I came in and knew what I wanted, what color I wanted it in, and I even bought the extended warranty. (wise, for a piece of electronics that goes everywhere with me.) The Reader is shiny and silver and even smaller than my previous one, so it'll fit into smaller purses.
And U Village now has a Trohpy Cupcakes outlet, so I had to stop and have a cupcake.
I tried to find a quiet place to work on the crits I'd brought with me, but there is one thing that U Village is lacking on a Saturday morning, and that is quiet spots in which to do a bit of work. I bagged the attempt, collected my camera, and came home.
This morning, I'm finishing crits for this afternoon, since I kind of ran out of steam last night, and then perhaps there will be some coffee and a shower and more wrestling with Word of the Chosen. I had forgotten how much trouble the protagonist of this book is. She is a very difficult character for me to really empathize with in the beginning, which makes being inside her head duly uncomfortable. She gets better eventually, but the first four chapters at least are going to be a bit of a slog because of it. (And a slog now pays off in dividends later, because this character has echoes through all of the rest of the books in the series.)
Perhaps I'll take my new, clean camera for a test spin and think about writing some more.
