About to go forth and bring in the new year right... with friends. The booze and fun times and stuff help too, but it's really the people that count, right? ;)

Now it's time for something only moderately less depressing...

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Current Mood: bored

Let 2010 be YOUR year! (And not just the year we make contact...)

Tags: announcements

Tags: funny shit, watchmen

The latest edition of The Horror Fiction Review is now posted! Includes four reviews done by yours truly. Check it out!

Submitted a couple of my previously-published zombie tales to a new reprint anthology, so here's hoping ... the shambling undead have been pretty good to me.

Currently reading King's new one, Under the Dome, and am loving it, loving it perhaps partly for some of the same reasons I've seen others not love it so much for ... the slow bloat buildup with all the town stuff. But for me, that's often a favorite element in King's books.

I've 'figured out' a couple of possible 'series' to work on..

Portals of Faith - Churches.. church doors.. etc..
And one (that I've yet to think of a name for) of corners of buildings.. well, the corner of their cornice... I took one photo of one, and it's a bit off, so I'm hoping at some point to be able to work on it...

Right now? It's foggy. Hopefully that's all it is.. Foggy.

I better get going.. I wanted to buy some things from work... *sigh* Really need to clean out my place, though... lol.. I'll attempt that afterwards.. given I feel up for it.. >_<

Oh, and I need food.. grr.. lol.

It's New Years Eve, and I find myself in a pretty tight spot.

About an hour ago, someone (who shall go unnamed such that they aren't publically shamed on my LJ) dropped my laptop on a hardwood floor and broke the screen to the point that it's no longer useable.

I use that laptop for all of my writing, including the revisions I have to turn in on Monday.

So....kind of in need of some advice.

It's a 12" G4 iBook that's about 4 1/2 years old - the "chiclet" kind - and was on the lower end even at the time since I'd be using it primarily for word processing. The screen would probably cost $450 to replace, assuming there aren't any other problems. If this hadn't happened I would probably aim to get at least another year out of it before looking for a new machine.

I could fix it. I could get a Netbook like emsariel's and "hackintosh" it and hope for full functionality on less fancy hardware. I could buy a new low-end Macbook. I could do nothing and just never be able to work away from home. Or maybe I could do something else I'm not even thinking of.

Thoughts? :(

(typing this on my suddenly essential iPod btw, so apologies for any typos)


ETA: Annnnnnnnnnnnnnd I am in the Cambridge Apple Store buying a Macbook?!??!?! So apparently that answers that question? (whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!?!??!)

Tags: freakout, life

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“Good morning Lj! I went to bed and I woke up, and there was snow. And nobody saw it coming.” Transcribed by: bigangry

• 13:25 I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one ~ Mark Twain #
• 13:31 Happiness is the Glee Soundtrack. :D #
• 15:45 Is there something about rain that makes every stoplight in this town go incredibly slow? #
• 00:14 You, like me, just lost The Game. #

... and that, as they say, is that.