NaNo Day 16: State of the comp and the NaNo

The problems with the comp turned out to be:

A bunch of dust, and the bearings are starting to go in the fan for the power supply. I'm ordering a replacement for the power supply, but I think we're going with "hang onto the part until the power supply actually quits" since, according to the nice guy from Geek Housecalls who came last night, I might have another six months to a year on the power supply.

Had to work a long shift this morning and I'm a bit tired. Not sure how much I'll get done on the NaNo today, and while I'm a week ahead on my word count, I really don't want to fall behind since they want me to come in at nine on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week. In theory, if I can keep up the momentum I've had most of this month, I may be able to finish my word count by this coming Sunday. I did manage to scribble down a couple hundred words while I was on my lunch break.

NaNo Day 16.5: Half day...

...Is better than none at all.



I was called in early to work and ended up taking a longer shift than usual, plus it seemed everyone was getting a jump on buying their turkey/stuffing mix/cranberries/yams/ potatoes/asparagus/squash/canned cranberry sauce/gravy mix. Thus I ended up feeling rather exhausted in spirit when I got home, so I settled on typing only about half of the day's quota. Hopefully tomorrow I can catch up (though I think *that* time of the month is imminent, hence the draggy feeling).

Several bright spots, though:

--The price dropped drastically on the boxed set of Yami no Matsuei which I have had my eye on, via Amazon, so I snarfed that up (yes, I know, I need to buy that power supply for the comp; one thing at a time and the power supply is next).

--Also found a plug in for Firefox which allows one to bypass the time limits on MegaVideo et al, so this should make things easier as I hunt for dubbed anime online, plus, it takes the "grrr, time limit" out of watching movies that are more than 72 minutes long.

--And at long last, after the better part of a year and a half, I finally finished reading TwhineliteTwilight and have started New MoanMoon. A few things:

* Stephanie Meyers comes up with good supporting characters: I like Alice and Jasper (who makes me think of a psy-vamp). Too bad they get eclipsed (get it?) by Dulla and Edwierd.
* Drinking games inspired by how many times Edwierd's "perfect" beauty, or the "marble" texture of his skin is referred to should be limited to a handful of chapters. Doing the whole book would likely cause alcohol poisoning.
* Do all the windows in the Twilight-verse have vertical blinds???