*HAH*!

*HAH*!! I have had a moment of Great Triumph over the evil that is Word! I have figured out how to make its default setting (normal) automagically double-spaced! I’ve been trying to figure this out for YEAAAAAAARS. Today, in a fit of something or other, I actually looked at the help files. :) I know you’re all dying to know how to do this, so I’m going to tell you. Go into Format. Choose Style. Highlight Normal. Click Modify. Click Format. Choose Paragraph. Choose Double under line spacing. Click OK.…

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confluence!

Confluence.org is a very cool, very weird project that makes me want to go hike the backwaters of Alaska and record confluences. Not that I’m anything like a hiker and not that I even know how a person goes about finding confluences (presumably with a GPS, actually), but it just sounds cool! Humans are such *odd* creatures.

writing

I wrote 700 words last night and got depressed over the fact that LG isn’t as good as The Secret Country, and so I quit writing and read some of TSC instead, and bizarrely that made me feel somewhat better. LG is a different story. I still want it to be as *good* as TSC, but … well, it made me feel a little better, anyway. I also wrote up about a page’s worth of notes and thoughts on LG, so it wasn’t a total waste of an evening. I’m…

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mowing the *lawn*?

The next door neighbor is mowing his lawn. In NOVEMBER. What the HELL! That’s SO WRONG! People do not MOW THE LAWN in NOVEMBER! *sulks off in a corner*

bah.

Republicans. Bah.