Shortly before I posted my last post (lump), my laptop just basically stopped working one night. I took it in for repairs and it was gone almost two full weeks. Since its return, I have been playing catch-up on almost everything.
My writing is wildly off-schedule as is everything else (including several podcasts for Cloud and Silver Lining that have been lurking on my drive which, thankfully, was not affected by the laptop death — it was a dead logic board) but I also haven’t had a lot of extra energy to expend on much work.
However, I did focus over this past weekend, spending two full days rebuilding the CUPE 951 website (archived the Drupal site and rebuilt from the ground up in WordPress). It’s not overly pretty but it is functional.
Kiddo is into a new school year and is overjoyed at the freedom offered by having her own bus pass for the first time. She is busing on her own instead of with me and I am back to my earlier schedule which mostly suits us all better.
At work, I have been endlessly occupied with scanning Ulysses. At the start of the project I was actually pretty excited by the idea of reading it one day. Now, I’m pretty excited by the idea that there are less than 100 pages remaining to scan; I’m looking forward to new material on the scan deck.
In my absence I did get a fair bit of reading done, however, and got back into the habit of reading physical books more often than ebooks. Luddite? Perhaps. Of course, the book I am currently reading is Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge in which a “mass digitization project” consists of a rather brutal book-shredder that photographs and electronically reconstructs the tiny pieces through matching the tear marks… so I think I will hold on to these physical relics a little longer.