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[serene]

• In the middle of therealjae's new story. Good stuff.
  
  
• Probably going to leave work early, go to the DMV, and then go write for hours and hours. It's that kind of day, cold and melancholy, where the only thing that will help is solitude, quiet, and lots of words.
  
  
• porcinea fucking rocks. I got use of an iBook the other day, with OSX, and she helped me figure out how to make the text editor, which I like, count my words. Now I'm hooked on the Unix terminal, and I'm going to stop at the library on the way home and get a book to teach myself more about it. I even did a bunch of "man" commands! (My terminology probably sucks; I'm new at this.) What I'd love is to eventually be running Unix or linux, with gnus as my newsreader (*waves* to pleonastic), because as dense as I can be about some tech things, I am a slave to configurability and learning new things.
  
  
• Speaking of learning new things, I have the potential for new work as a tech writer slash office helper for someotherguy's employer, who happens also to be his brother, and in order to help myself with that, I'm teaching myself Miva Script, the scripting language they work in. I like it. And someotherguy is going to help me work on a project (a better version of the apc11 reg form) to use the stuff I'm learning. I so totally adore geeks.
  
  
• There is so much in this world I want to learn, to do, and today I feel like I don't have the energy to do all of it, but I have the willingness and ability to do a good chunk of it, and that makes me happy.
  
  
• Need to do some of this stuff and then retire to bed with a comforter, a laptop, and a mug of tea. It's winter outside, and I need to cocoon.

Comments

[emperor]

Yay. gnus is your friend :-)

[says the self-confessed emacs obsessive]

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

And some day, I'll even really know what that means. :-)

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Winter in San Diego? It is to laugh, but not nastily.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Winter isn't all about snow and temperature. It's cool here, but the air -- the air is wintery, and the day is gray, and, well, it's just winter. It's cocooning weather. It's just... just winter.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

... I have the potential for new work as a tech writer slash office helper ...

Oh, my poor brain is still playing word tricks on me - the first time I read this I thought it said "I have the potential for new work as a tech slash writer ..."

Which brought to mind all *sorts* of alarming images ...

Coccooning is a goodness. Enjoy!

[firecat]

Ooh, you're turning into a UNIX geek!
]'''''''' <== Biscuit's contribution

mmh, gnus!

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

*grin*. glad you're having fun!

[mishamcm.livejournal.com]

I have the potential for new work as a tech writer slash
Oooh! Tech writer slash! Does that mean you make the explanations of acrobatic positions clearer to the reader?

Oh. Never mind.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Nope, means I write stories about sexual liaisons between my favorite tech writers. :-)

[mishamcm.livejournal.com]

Cool! Who are you pairing auroramama with?