What went before: I did not finish the story yesterday. There were several reasons for this.
Reason One was details necessary to The Great Cat Hunt. I went from no one answering their email to four people answering with varying degrees of “we might be able to make this work.” This required some Examination of My Wants and Preferences, because, no, I could not take them all. We’re still working out travel arrangements for the winning candidate.
Reason Two was that I had realized that I was being Too Damned Timid, and not wishing to get up close and personal with a Bad Thing that certainly had bearing on the character. Also, I needed to clarify the stakes. So, I have to rewrite a couple of scenes, and then write the last scene.
Reason Two-Point-Five is that my keyboard was — lagging. Honest, I was getting two sentences ahead of the words appearing on the screen, which — I can’t tell you how crazy that makes me.
So, I unplugged the keyboard I had been using, and tried to set up the wireless keyboard. Only bluetooth on the computer will not play nice with the wireless keyboard (Message one: Connected! Two Seconds Later, Message two: Disconnected!). I’m very disappointed in this keyboard, and I had such high hopes. For one thing, it’s supposed to light up — which it did at first, but then it stopped and the folks I bought it from want me to do things that I fail to understand in order to MAYbe? get it to work again. And now this thing which essentially means I have a wireless keyboard that has to stay plugged in.
Onward!
Friday. Sunny and already as “warm” as it got yesterday.
Breakfast was a two-parter. I grabbed a banana (I thought it was ripe; it was still — crunchy. Hate me a crunchy banana, but I was committed by that time.), answered a letter, then got dressed. Sit down breakfast was oatmeal with raisins and walnuts. Lunch will be fish.
Today, aside from emptying (and refilling — honestly, who threw a party when I wasn’t looking, and left all the dishes in the sink?) the dishwasher, one’s duty to the cats, on-demand scrubbles, and playtime, will be All About the Story.
I have been pointed to the large, sulky river, where there is an Incoherent Review of Fair Trade that also includes a large swath of a scene from the book, (which I’m willing to guess is exactly 1,000 words) but! that aside? I can’t do anything about it. Despite its delusions to the contrary, I don’t work for the waterway, and they long ago stopped allowing mere writers to ask that troll reviews be removed. Thank you for your understanding.
Pro Tip: If I’m shopping a book and come across an incoherent review, or a review that’s clearly a hatchet job? I skip along to the next review. Works a treat.
Is anybody else having Crazy Times with their FitBit? My watch was charged to 100% before I went to bed last night. This morning, I woke up to a frantic email, demanding that I charge my watch Right Now! I looked — and, yeah, it was down to 6%. When FitBit actually ran the show, the watch perked for a week, and if a power-devouring update was coming down the pipe, they sent a heads-up, so you could plug the watch in. Since Google’s been running the show, it’s like they randomly drain the battery for giggles.
In regard to The Big Cat Hunt, transportation details are under discussion. I am cleared to say that the new director is a Maine Coon.
I finished reading Ties that Bond in Gretna Green, and am still reading Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent in one-or-two chapter bites.
And that? Is all I’ve got to report.
How’s the end of the week shaping up for you?
My Fitbit is also acting crazy. My sleep times are all over the place according to fitbit.
FYI: I looked for a review with a lengthy excerpt, found only one, copy/paste on the quoted text and (on Linux) opened a terminal, opened an empty file, pasted in the text, saved the file then ran:
wc -w
which reports 703 words.
Fred
I am guessing I’m coming down with something. I’m extra grouchy for the second day in a row, my brain is fuzzy and uncooperative for the work I have to have done today, and my eyes just want to be closed. Essentially, I’m just hoping to plod through the day and get to bed after a very light dinner.
Feel better.
The simple things that help make a bad week better.
“Hate me a crunchy banana “
I personally like the crunchy banana – I hate me the soft mushy banana.
So the comment made me smile.
( I think I finally figured out why I don’t like soft bananas.
They taste more banana-y. And apparently I don’t really care for banana flavor. Who knew.)
Apples are crunchy, and by my preference, tart. Bananas are soft and sweet. This is the Natural Order of the Universe.
Re Riverine reviews, under each is a “Report” button, with the (possibly empty?) promise “We’ll check if this review meets our community guidelines. If it doesn’t, we’ll remove it.” If perhaps several of your readership used that…?
Re laggy processing of keystrokes, I would be surprised if the issue was in the keyboard itself. I’m not aware of any keyboard that has the ability to store a sentence-worth of keystrokes before passing them to the CPU. Such lag would usually be in the computer itself, at some level of the software stack, probably the WP app itself. You’ve mentioned Linux I think? So probably LibreOffice Writer? Whatever, go to your favorite search (duckduckgo.com for choice) and do a search for ” slow lag performance”. When I do a search for “libre office writer slow lag performance” I see many hits from people complaining about exactly what you describe.
That might do re the waterway, but I can’t be seen to be inciting a riot.
Thank you for the slow lag tip. I’ll check it out.