Reading, writing, network's sick
Jun. 28th, 2014 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroserose*blinks*
*taps screen*
Huh, that's weird. The entry I posted yesterday, about our Internet being intermittent for the past two weeks, has disappeared from my LiveJournal. (It was never on Dreamwidth, since I posted it from the LJ app on my phone, but still). The link still exists on Twitter and Facebook, but directs to a missing page; if it weren't for the fact that I have several comment emails in my inbox I'd be tempted to think I was hallucinating.
How bizarre. I wonder if it'll come back.
Ah well. After a truly ridiculous amount of back-and-forth with RCN's customer support line, we finally got a supervisor tech to call us back, and supposedly they're coming out tomorrow morning to have a look. Which means getting up at 7 on a Sunday so we're not in our PJ's when they show up. The things we do for Interwebs.
(To answer the person who suggested that we build a WAN with a failsafe switch, thanks for the instructions! Brian does that sort of thing pretty regularly at his job, in fact. We're just extremely Not Interested in paying for two separate internet connections, especially at American prices.)
In other news, between the lack of Internet and my shiny new Kindle, I've been doing a lot of reading - especially some m/m romance that's been recommended to me. Given that they're all indie/small-press (and therefore much more likely to benefit from additional reviews), I've been writing short reviews for them on Goodreads/Amazon; maybe I'll do a big roundup of them here for those who're curious.
I've also written (and will shortly be revising) a short story with the intent of submitting it to Fireside, which I'm actually somewhat proud of - I wrote the whole thing in one morning, which required some will to overcome my usual habit of writing a bit of it, doing something else, and never going back to it. (Admittedly, the fact that the deadline for submissions is the 30th might have had something to do with that, but as they say, if it weren't for the last minute...) I was looking back over at the wasteland of half-finished projects that is my Google Drive and realizing precisely how unusual it is for me to finish anything, even a short story. So perhaps my completely unreasonable sense of pride isn't entirely unjustified. Even if it is coupled with the usual writerly sense of "oh god this is crap and horrible and no one will like it." Now if I can just figure out where to cut a fifth of it to get it within the submissions guidelines...
Big thanks to Tess and CJ for their beta-reading efforts. You guys are seriously inspiring and help me keep the not-good-enoughs at bay in a huge way.
*taps screen*
Huh, that's weird. The entry I posted yesterday, about our Internet being intermittent for the past two weeks, has disappeared from my LiveJournal. (It was never on Dreamwidth, since I posted it from the LJ app on my phone, but still). The link still exists on Twitter and Facebook, but directs to a missing page; if it weren't for the fact that I have several comment emails in my inbox I'd be tempted to think I was hallucinating.
How bizarre. I wonder if it'll come back.
Ah well. After a truly ridiculous amount of back-and-forth with RCN's customer support line, we finally got a supervisor tech to call us back, and supposedly they're coming out tomorrow morning to have a look. Which means getting up at 7 on a Sunday so we're not in our PJ's when they show up. The things we do for Interwebs.
(To answer the person who suggested that we build a WAN with a failsafe switch, thanks for the instructions! Brian does that sort of thing pretty regularly at his job, in fact. We're just extremely Not Interested in paying for two separate internet connections, especially at American prices.)
In other news, between the lack of Internet and my shiny new Kindle, I've been doing a lot of reading - especially some m/m romance that's been recommended to me. Given that they're all indie/small-press (and therefore much more likely to benefit from additional reviews), I've been writing short reviews for them on Goodreads/Amazon; maybe I'll do a big roundup of them here for those who're curious.
I've also written (and will shortly be revising) a short story with the intent of submitting it to Fireside, which I'm actually somewhat proud of - I wrote the whole thing in one morning, which required some will to overcome my usual habit of writing a bit of it, doing something else, and never going back to it. (Admittedly, the fact that the deadline for submissions is the 30th might have had something to do with that, but as they say, if it weren't for the last minute...) I was looking back over at the wasteland of half-finished projects that is my Google Drive and realizing precisely how unusual it is for me to finish anything, even a short story. So perhaps my completely unreasonable sense of pride isn't entirely unjustified. Even if it is coupled with the usual writerly sense of "oh god this is crap and horrible and no one will like it." Now if I can just figure out where to cut a fifth of it to get it within the submissions guidelines...
Big thanks to Tess and CJ for their beta-reading efforts. You guys are seriously inspiring and help me keep the not-good-enoughs at bay in a huge way.
