Observations on the Habits of the Pacific Northwest Anna, #326 in a Series

So for various and sundry reasons, I haven't had the time or the inclination to post to my Livejournal; however, in the interests of trying to make my journal a bit more interesting reading and give it content besides quizzes, here's a bit of an amendment to that, as I wax verbose on WTF I've been doing lately.

I've been trying to get some space freed up again on my bookshelves, or at least in the shelf allocated for Stuff I Haven't Read Yet. ( What just got knocked off the list... )

Music has continued, though I have been bummed by the reduced attendance at our Jam Sessions lately. I've been the only guitar on hand for many weeks now... which is kind of suckful because I am the least experienced guitarist in the group. On the other hand, I have at least been getting more guitar practice. ( And confusing the hell out of myself with a chord problem... )

( Much webgeeking has been done... )

Been trying to do the preliminary work on the trilogy I want to write. Gulp. Mostly this has involved thinking about the backstory of the culture where the story takes place... and the backstory of specific crucial characters... and identifying things I've got to do research on. This story is going to take lots and lots and lots of research, I think. The trick is going to be figuring out how to properly balance doing the research, and actually writing the damned thing. ( Some of the research sources I am getting or working on getting... )

Although with Dar's help I have figured out that my little Velo handheld computer is not in fact dead, that in fact its battery packs are just old enough that the damned things have no juice left in them, I am now presented with the challenge of trying to see if I can install the software to have the damn thing talk to my laptop on XP. ( Right now the answer to this seems to be Fuck If I Know... )

Went and saw Two Towers for a third time, with mamishka and ssha, and the movie did indeed hold up well to a third viewing. I'm still pretty much in a cinematic limbo, as I am feeling zero inclination to see anything else that's out right now. But now that the trailers for the summer movies are coming out, I am very much looking forward to those. The Matrix flicks, the second X-Men movie, Terminator 3, Master and Commander (of COURSE I'm going to go ogle Mr. Crowe in June), and of course Return of the King. There is much movie promise later this year. I hope it holds up; I need something to look forward to.