Nov. 28th, 2007

Irony.

Nov. 28th, 2007 09:24 am
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I find it ironic that I tried for several weeks to rearrange my wake/sleep schedule so that I was waking up in the mornings, so I could increase my productivity. Now that I have finally succeeded at that, I have no computer with which to be productive.

On the other hand, I have been chanelling my need to do something into slowly cleaning up my office, which has been too big a mess for far too long. The biggest problem, of course, is that I need to find places to keep stuff, other than piled on desks or the floor.

Some of it is arguably old enough now that I can just toss it, or give it to anyone who wants. I mean, do I really need a VAX manual from the 80s?  Or a stack of Dragon Magazines from the same era? Some of it though, like ancient editions of roleplaying books, I still use for occasional reference.

I was also hoping to use my time in the mornings to get something done on my NaNoWriMo novel. Clearly though, this year it simply wasn't destined to be. What I have written is on the hard drive of the machine that's now dead, and even were I to recover it (which would not actually be all that hard), I do not have access to any of my writing tools.

The last time my computer died during NaNoWriMo, I tried to use this server computer one and OpenOffice to write it. I never succeeded because I have never found any way to globally tell Linux what the minimal acceptible font size for an application is. The results is that I can not actually read what I am typing now, and I keep having to hunt for ways to increase font sizes in every single application I use (and many provide no such way to change things). And, of course, I'm doing that while not able to read the menus because everything has defaulted to too small.

Actually, its worse than that, because the selected-menu-items have all defaulted to light-grey on light-grey, and I can't actually read any selected text either.

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