Jul. 28th, 2006

shewhomust: (Default)
The saga continues: when it came down to it, Morgan were perfectly amenable to replacing the non-functioning computer with one from which we hope for better things. [livejournal.com profile] durham_rambler has transferred as many programs as he can, and as many files as he remembers to, and I have taken possession.

My new new computer (Morgan II, I think) is black and shiny, and differs from all previous computers in a variety of small respects. The least subtle of these is that it has no floppy disk drive (the documentation imples that it has, but if so, we can't find it). It doesn't have the handy "back to desktop" button, but I have a two key workaround for that, which is already becoming automatic. I can't find Windows Explorer (and [livejournal.com profile] samarcand, who found it for me last time, has gone on holiday). But it starts quickly and works quietly and I am perpetually optimistic.

I've already persuaded it to print out a document, upload some photos to Flickr, and downloaded from the server all the mail which arrived during the interregnum and which I didn't want to delete (about 500 items, since you ask). It keeps logging out of LJ, but I'm working on that, this post will be another first, and there's work to be done which will doubtless throw up some more. Excelsior!*




*Sorry, [livejournal.com profile] samarcand! It seems the only thing to say.
shewhomust: (puffin)
I've been keeping a reading diary for almost twenty years now. I started at a time when I was unemployed, a little depressed, spending too much time reading aimlessly, gulping books down and not really tasting them. A friend mentioned that she kept a diary, and I thought it would be a good way to slow down and reflect a little on what I was reading.

It doesn't have to be a very intellectual exercise; the deal I have made with myself is that I can write what I like. If all I think about a book is "Why?", I can write that. But if I feel like writing half a dozen pages of plot analysis, I can do that, too. Occasionally I'll write a more formal piece (some of which I've posted here), but mostly this is stuff I don't want to publish: I want to be able to discuss a book without worrying about spoilers, and to look at my response to it without getting all self-conscious.

I write in an A4 notebook, and when I reach the end I index it, and I've just filled the book I've been writing in since January 2005. Since then (give or take - I'm rarely completely up to date on this) I've read and the full list is behind the cut: mostly for my own benefit ) some 115 books, of which about 30 are comics/ graphic novels.

More comics than in the past, I think, because I have been making some effort to keep up with the reading for the Graphic Novels Reading Group. Not all of them were worth reading, but then again, one of the real stars of the list is a graphic novel (graphic autobiography, really), David B's Epileptic.

It's also clear that LiveJournal is eating into my reading time: but we knew that, didn't we?

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