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[10 Oct 2008|10:36pm] |
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I bought a 120GB external hard drive about 3 years ago....well, for the last year or so I've periodically had to delete some files (mostly video) that I haven't used because it's so full...I finally bought a new one 500GB (for less than what I paid for the 120GB 3 years ago) and I'm in the process of moving my files. It was going pretty quickly, until I got to my Pictures folder....it's been working on that one folder for about an hour, the last 40 minutes or so on my Mads folder. *grin* What can I say....I can't bear to delete any of them...it would just kill me!!
Oh! It's finished Mads and flew through a bunch of folders....until it got to Sean.....
*sigh* I'm going to be here a while....
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| Remembrance |
[10 Oct 2008|09:30am] |
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 My cousin Linda would have turned 40 today had cancer not ended her life this past summer. I miss her. She filled my dreams last night as if she were reaching out to me. Perhaps she was and I hope she will always do so. She taught me patience. She told me every day during her battle with cancer that I should live each day to its fullest and that life is too short. She told me to enjoy every day and to not put off anything. And she told me every day that there was a reason she was given cancer. She believed that God had a purpose for her. I am certain of that. She was the most compassionate person I've ever known. I hope I can always carry a piece of her spirit within my own soul every day. |
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| Snagged from Gypsyluv |
[09 Oct 2008|12:18pm] |
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,(even if we don't speak often or ever) please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
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| I seem to be a slow learner when it comes to STAR WARS related things |
[08 Oct 2008|11:10pm] |
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It occurs to me that there's such a thing as getting just a wee bit too far ahead of myself, when it comes to writing fandom-related works. Of course, it occurs to me now that I've given myself a major headache after having recreated a character sketch that was about halfway finished for a major character in my SW AU series who won't even be born until, oh, about twelve years after the time I've currently written up to in the actual series, with said character sketch (which is part of what was eaten by the computer hiccough from hell that completely erased a WordPerfect file of well over four hundred pages of various stories and pieces of stories) mostly covering a timeframe a further ten to twenty years down the line. Yeah. Wow. This headache? I so should've seen coming. And the worst part? I can't even post the darn stoy anywhere yet. Spoiler city, folks. And I'm not entirely sold on all the details for this timeline. Too much prognostication. *Sigh* This is apparently what I get for getting a wild hair and deciding to write about Kyp Durron, alas! Ah, well. At least now I know who to picture when I'm visualizing him and his family.
In other news, I made myself suck it up and try to reconstruct the missing (also eaten in the computer hiccough from hell) fifty pages or so of text from the AotC rewrite that's basically an AU take on my own AU SW 'verse, featuring Dormékin and Sobidala (Sabé/Obi-Wan/Padmé Amidala) rather than my usual Obi/Ani pairing. It's like pulling teeth with no anesthesia, but I think I may be getting somewhere, especially since I realized I had a copy of a file with one of the three missing chapters in a fairly complete if somewhat rough form saved somewhere else. Give me a couple more days to polish and make sure I'm not forgetting something important from a later draft, and I'll try to post at least one of those chapters. Give me to the end of next week, and I might actually have all of the three missing chapters reconstructed enough to fly as something readable.
Come Novemeber, though, I am all over that Tahiri story the basic idea of which I've been kicking around since late summer last year (and which didn't get to be last years NaNo project on account of some cracked bones). This may be the only story I ever write in response to those damned LotF books, and O but do I ever look forward to wiping them off the face of the GFFA with some selective time meddling! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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| Photography, Icons, Wallpapers |
[05 Oct 2008|07:06pm] |
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Let us see if I can manage a post whilst terribly sick with a cold. *coughs* I have made a handful of icons (Clive and King Arthur) and wallpapers (Clive and Gerry Butler) over the past couple of weeks, and visited The Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC yesterday - so I have a few photos to share as well. I'll stick everything under a cut to spare my flisters.... ( follow me )
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| Reaction to Karen Traviss' novelization of the recent animated SW movie The Clone Wars |
[05 Oct 2008|01:30pm] |
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Okay. So I’m mostly just confused/baffled by the novelization Karen Traviss wrote for the silly Clone Wars animated film that came out this year. Granted, I honestly wasn’t expecting a whole lot from a book based on that movie, given that most of the reviews I’ve heard/read about it ( Read more... ) However, when I found out that Karen Traviss was writing it, I was hoping that the apparent hideousness of the movie and its jarringly out-of-synchedness with the rest of the canon saga and EU might in some way be alleviated or smoothed over to the extent where the story would at least start to make a little bit of sense as something that might have indeed been crammed in alongside all of the other things we already know about what went on in between AotC and RotS, in the saga, and during or around events already documented in the EU by other Clone Wars era stories.
Oddly enough, while I can honestly say that the book is most likely better written/more coherent and more entertaining than the movie likely is (I’ll watch it some time or another when it comes out on DVD, just to be sure, for comparison’s sake), I also have to admit that I am pretty much thoroughly underwhelmed by both the consistency of the characterization of both such major saga figures as Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi and such major EU characters as Asajj Ventress, not to mention somewhat baffled by the inconsistency of the apparent timeframe ( Read more... )
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| Be afraid...be very afraid.... |
[04 Oct 2008|11:52pm] |
Snagged from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) evil_jacquie
Ouch!
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| Frak me (A very visceral reaction to Order 66: A Republic Commando Novel |
[03 Oct 2008|07:43pm] |
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*This would be the closest thing possible to keening via computer, folks*
I got to within the last fifty or so pages of this EU novel (hardback version, 1st edition), and I literally puked my guts up.
Congratulations, Karen Traviss. You've managed to pen a second SW book capable of making me have that particular reaction, on a first reading. Matthew Stover was the first. I'd prefer it if no one tried for a third.
( Read more... )
*Must go plot things for the AU series, in reaction to all of this, now*
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| My fucked up computer just ate a 400-some-odd page WordPerfect document |
[01 Oct 2008|07:13pm] |
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It was one of my Star Wars documents. I don't know what the hell happened. In between telling the computer to "stand by" while I went to clean up a mess in the kitchen and returning to the computer to turn it back on about twenty minutes later, the file vanished. VANISHED. Gone. A file I'd saved multiple times today, including right before I told the computer to "stand by." It no longer exists at all, according to my computer, despite the fact that the computer is set to save everything I open in WordPerfect and work on automatically every five minutes whether I tell it to save that often or not and should have at least made a temporary backup file of the damn thing. This is a file that I've worked in for upwards of two years. It's an old file with multiple stories in it. I cannot comprehend where it went or how the fuck this happened. It hasn't even been erased. It's just - not there. Like it never fucking existed at all. And I know I have old copies saved elsewhere, but I also know I just lost about fifty pages of my rewrite of AotC that I've been working on this week, a complete character sketch for Yoda, and a character sketch 29 and a half points in to a 50-point sketch for Kyp Durron. I've lost about seven completely irretrievable names and profiles for characters not to mention the whole fucking story for Kyp which I was making up in my head as I typed, not going off notes or anything. Fuckall knows how I'm going to ever recreate all of that.
I am going to go crawl into a dark place and cry some more.
I think I may be forced to give the damned AotC story up as a bad deal. I don't know if I can possibly fix something that's lost that much information.
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| I think I may be getting sick . . . |
[29 Sep 2008|05:53pm] |
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In fact, I think I may be getting a sinus infection.
Oh, freaking joy.
I’ve been trying to ignore the increasing congestion for the past couple of days, hoping it will go away, but I'm afraid that if my head doesn’t stop feeling like someone broke it open and packed it too full of used gauze from an operating theatre after several surgical procedures by this coming Wednesday, it’s to the doctor I will be going.
Oh, freaking joy.
Bleah! *Sigh* I hate being sick. I never know how coherent I’m being, when I’m sick. If I ramble at anyone more than usual and its less easily followed than normal, folks, just ignore me or ask for clarification later. My brain doesn’t process much of anything so well through excessive sinus pressure.
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| Kyp Durron and Jaina Solo as Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala? |
[28 Sep 2008|12:29pm] |
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Oy! I think I've finally put my grubby little hands on the reason why I just have never gotten the same kind of romantic Kyp/Jania vibe that so many SW fans seem to get from the NJO series (and which has led some fans to wish Jaina were with Kyp instead of torn between Zekk and Jagged Fel, in the DN trio and the LotF series), and it's not just because I see their major interactions in the NJO series as being extremely mercenary (i.e., turnabout is fair play: you use me, then I'll use you). No. In keeping with the huge theme of repetitiveness of basic plot points and plotlines from the prequel-era/Clone Wars era of the saga and EU in the EU from the NJO onwards, when looked at through a certain lens, contextually, Kyp Durron and Jaina Solo are esentially the potential Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala of the GFFA during and after the Yuuzhan Vong War.
What, not convinced? Let me explain, then. And allow me to start by first of all reminding folks that Han Solo (born ~29 BBY) is ten years older than Leia and Luke (born ~19 BBY), who are in turn about twelve years older than Kyp (born ~7 BBY), and then by pointing out that Kyp Durron, as originally written in the pre-Del Rey EU, is, in essence, Han Solo's informally adopted son. ( Read more... )
In retrospect, I don't know why I didn't see it before (though I suspect it's probably because it took me so gorram long to finally read the NJO series at all and reading it and the chronologically following two SW series was essentially like an exercise in pulling teeth without an anesthetic). ( Read more... )
There's something vaguely amusing about the fact that there's apparently even more implied/contextual incest in the EU than there is in the canon, considering that so many folks seem to think that SW is all nice and bright and squeaky clean . . .
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