Tuesday

[ksmith]

Back to work after a week off--color me cranky.

It hasn't been all bad. The tax refund arrived late last week, a fact I didn't discover until Monday. That being the case, I went ahead and preordered Tiger. I swear I've done more updating of Mac OS X in the past few months than I did of Win 95/98 in all my years of PC ownership.

I am debating the purchase of an iPod Mini. I am already an iTunes semi-junkie, so I may as well take that last fatal step, shouldn't I?

In J5 land, another puzzling bit worked itself out. It involved the justification of a rift between Jani and one of the main characters. Started last night with a single line of dialogue that just kinda yorked out onto the screen, and developed nicely during the 500+ words I knocked off during lunch. It's nice when things like this happen. Unless I'm sure my characters are emotionally justified in doing what I set them up to do, I run into roadblocks and it all just trundles to a halt. If I can get them to buy into it, it all sort of works itself out.

Whats nice about this is that it really isn't a surprise. Two strong personalities reverting to default mode under extreme stress. It happens.

Comments

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

There's an Apple Store on the way home from work, so I'll probably just stop off there and pick up Tiger when it's released. And congrats on getting the tax return -- my CPA called and left a message/question about where Lyndon worked last year, so hopefully we'll be getting the finished forms tomorrow.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I wound up having to purchase two licenses instead of one because I have two systems. Actually, what they sell is a 5-license Family pack, which is great if you have 3 or more systems but kind of a bummer if you only have two. So, paid $199 instead of $129.

This consistent updating game is getting to be kind of a pain--how often does Apple do this?