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cleolindaAll right. (Is there some unwritten law that I must begin an entry with "All right" or "So"?) The weather is better today; I feel a little better today; however, I have spent the day on business email. I have to write up another proposal. Hatching new plans, however. First of all, I have a pretteh new banner I've made for my Clix account (is the credited artwork borrowing kosher?): 
Next: I was a Dell girl. Now I'm thinking of switching over to Hewlett Packard. I need 1) lots of storage, 2) lots of horsepower, and 3) lots of stain-resistance. Seriously, poor Betsy has suffered much hardship in her five years on this earth. Aside from the fact that I am definitely a PC girl and not switching over to a Mac--thoughts? Recommendations? Warnings?
Then: I'm not saying anyone gives a shit about my attempts to impose some discipline on my lazy self; I'm saying that other people might be going through the same thing and might like to see how someone else copes with it. Which is to lead up to saying: I am not good with schedules. I need them desperately; but I totally cannot impose them on myself. I tend to accomplish things in obsessive bursts, but really, if you're going to run things with "Daily" in the title, that ain't gonna cut it. So, my happy, probably-not-going-to-work plan is this: Let's try updating the Digest on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. Given the way I do it, there's no point in really even starting before six or seven pm my time, because I'm on the east coast and the other sites haven't finished updating for the day. I'd already instituted that--starting the updates at night rather than pointlessly dithering on them all day--as a time-saving measure, and it seems to have worked somewhat.
So. Then we have the Days recaps at 1 pm. That cuts the day in half--you have the morning before and then the afternoon after (and before the Digest updates). Surely, surely, I can spend the morning on email/correspondence/craziness and maybe even get some exercise in, too. Then you have the afternoon to work on writing and update Short Attention Span Theater as random new bites come in, plus two weeknights where I don't have to worry about the Digest anyway. (Really, if you update it every day, you run out of things to talk about. The other sites are the daily; I'm the digest.) That gives me specific spaces in which to write, without pinning me down too formally to a schedule, and still allows for specific things to get done.
This is so totally not going to work, is it?
After that: I'm putting together a hub site for all your Cleolinda Jones needs--a place with all my various blogs and sites and crap on one page, plus an easier-to-remember URL for Black Ribbon. Does this smack of megalomania? Absolutely. But then, I've always believed that if you want to be something, you should go ahead and act like you are that thing--as in, if you aspire to be a professional author, go ahead and act like a professional, not "go ahead and act like a presumptuous asshat." It's not that I think I deserve an official "shrine" or anything; it's that I've got enough stuff floating around on the internet now that it seems vaguely appropriate to have a Site o' Me. Kind of like a giant résumé/CV. Also, I totally need a lair from which to launch my sekrit plan to take over the world. Jellus? Get your own, then. You deserve ialsohaveagiantego.com, too.
Speaking of my kudzu-like creep over the entire intarweb, I got an invitation today to post "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Fifteen Minutes" on Fiction Alley. I don't know why my wanka spidey sense started tingling, but...
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Date: 2004-06-18 01:24 pm (UTC)[chants "I'm a minion! Minion! Minion! I'm a minion, yes I am!"]
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Date: 2004-06-18 05:11 pm (UTC)just passing by...
Date: 2004-06-18 05:33 pm (UTC)<3 Candie <3
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Date: 2004-06-18 07:54 pm (UTC)Very entertaining and I absolutely adore your sense of humour! Hope you don't mind that I've friended you.
:D
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Date: 2004-06-18 11:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-19 07:31 am (UTC)I have an Emachine here and at work... they have been great so far. But people keep telling me they "heard" they suck, not that anyone actually have one...
I hear many good things about Gateway and Dell, some bad, but not a whole lot. I don't spend a whole lot of time working on them, and when I do usually it's just virus removal or maintenance.
Alien-ware? Drool... Haven't even got to work on one.... but they are nice!
Good Luck
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Date: 2004-06-19 08:13 am (UTC)Anyway, good luck with your studies.
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Date: 2004-06-20 07:39 am (UTC)I still use ancient technology, but I'm awesome, so I rule no matter what I use.
The "Days" recaps? If they're messing with your other quality work, don't bother. It's all shirtless dudes and Belle anyways. I prefer your other work, anyhow.
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Date: 2004-06-20 08:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-21 08:56 pm (UTC)Good luck on the flood of people now watching you
As to the computer comment. I have an HP, love it, and admit that I have a sony flat screen with it... but i have to say the BEST PART IS:
Buy your computer at Best Buy and get the service plan thingy... it costs a little more but if you have any problems at all they fix it for free! I had this pixel burn out on my monitor and damn the thing was annoying... this lil red dot just laughing at me... they gave me a new monitor for free!!
Good luck on hunting for a computer
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Date: 2004-06-22 10:39 am (UTC)Incidentally the Mac OS is so far superior in every way to Bill Gate's little wannabe brainchild in ways people don't even know about. BUT, because only something like 3 percent of the world use Macs, and mostly in graphic design, they just aren't practical for most people on account of software limitations, etc. Very sad. Not the first time that the lessor machine ended up dominating. Oh well. You know that Mac's don't get viruses...some stupid crapola search engine has hijacked my computer and I have all these stupid pop ups and nothing stops it. I think Norton is secretely letting loose all this stuff so we will continue to buy their product in a futile effort to protect our right to choose our own internet activities instead of having this stupid shit forced down our throats...also my brother thinks that a lot of this awful spyware and hijacking stuff is coming from the Chinese who want to sell computers and software and don't want to have to pay royalties to Bill, and are trying to attack MS and so far they, or whoever, is doing a pretty good job. If things continue like this the internet is going to to unusable. I have to go to my internet settings and re-set it to google EVERY TIME I log on or I get this stupid "best search" crap that, even if it WASN'T a totally bogus search engine with nothing but sponsored results, I would refuse to use it just because they are raping my computer with this damned malware. I've tried everything and nothing takes it off...time to call in my little computergeek teenage buddy, but, I think we are all doomed.
Anyway, I'd stick to a Dell.
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Date: 2004-06-22 12:11 pm (UTC)this is what happens when you keep a site for five and a half years. whee.
my current banner is here (http://www.alita.org/graphics/clixbanner.jpg) - my old banner is here (http://www.alita.org/graphics/banner2.jpg) - my little button that someone made for me is here (http://www.alita.org/graphics/buttonlanna.jpg).
any creative fun stuff would be super-cool! =D
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Date: 2004-06-22 05:23 pm (UTC)more cowbellsome text. Hmm. I think I'm going to have to reboot, but I'll be back in a few minutes with some goodies.no subject
Date: 2004-06-22 09:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-24 04:36 pm (UTC)Seriously, go with it. I’m on my second Dell laptop and I am pretty impressed with them. My first Dell laptop lasted 4 years without much trouble. And when I did have trouble, their tech support was awesome. I never felt like they were condescending or thought that they though I was retarded and they were willing to hold my hand and stay on the phone with me for literally hours when the thing exploded and died. When the old LT needed new parts, I never had to get off my ass and bring down to a store; they’d either a.) have me mail the thing back to them to and not charge me for shipping or b.) send the guy to my house to fix it.
I now have an Inspiron 4150 and I adore it. It’s light, fast, cute and never acts up. I’ve had not trouble with it at all except on the software side. And that was the result of the company that made the software, not Dell itself (my DVD player software died and tech support walked me through uninstalling and reinstalling it. If you ever get Ian at Dell tech support, hold on and never let go!). My only warning is that Dell tends to get a little pricey (my Inspiron was basically $2850), but that’s because I it came with Windows XP Professional and a billion other programs that I didn’t have to go out and buy separately. Oh, and paying extra for 3-year tech support/warranty and being an express customer with tech support is well worth it. I’ve never had to wait longer than 5 minutes to talk to a human being in the two times I’ve had to talk to tech support.
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Date: 2004-07-03 03:00 pm (UTC)