The Writing Office

My desktop computer has come home, and it is not a day too soon for me.  I have been going stir crazy wanting to get the computer back so I could get back to work, particularly on my novel and blogs and most importantly could get back in touch with my writing friends and resume my lessons through Holly Lisle’s How To Think Sideways online course.

I am hoping to be all back up to speed by Friday afternoon so I can spend the weekend relaxing and catching up on chatter and spending time with my writing friends seeing what all I missed in the world of writing.

I was reading the local newspaper earlier and saw that we will be having a special guest speaker at the local community college.  Mark Gottsegen, author of “The Painter’s Handbook” and art professor at the University of Carolina, will be speaking in room 212 of the Fred and Sara Machetanz Building on October 27th at 4 p.m. thanks to Blaines Art Supply of Anchorage and the Mat-Su College Art Department.  This event is free and open to the public.

I am seriously going into withdrawals here wanting to get back to working on the writing course that I am part of and being unable to because the danged desktop PC is not yet back home where it belongs.  It is on its way, and promises to be here by 5 p.m. on the 22nd.  This is Fed Ex 2 day Air shipping that was sent out on the 16th.  ::shakes head::  Why the heck is it called 2 day when it is taking a week?

It’s not just this either.  I know someone that used to work in a Fed Ex place in the lower 48, and they said that they used to see boxes that would sit on the shelf for a week or more without moving.  Why in the shioot do those things need to collect dust in a warehouse when they were paid to get there fast?

Ah well, as long as they treat my pretty baby with respect and don’t injure it, I’ll be happy just to get my desktop PC back home where it belongs and to get back to work.

Finding the time to write seems to be more difficult than one would assume, but I am doing my best to carve it out of the 24 hours that I try squishing 80 hours worth of stuff into.  I want to try and get the rough draft of Heir to Magic’s first book finished by the end of this month so that next month, for NaNoWriMo, I can work on the rough draft of book two.

The FedEx guy picked up my desktop PC this morning and is taking it off to visit its old buddies at the HP factory so it can have its motherboard tattooed to fix what is defined as a Code Purple problem that cropped up with it.  I included a note asking them to give me a call if it would be possible for them to install a multi-monitor card for me if I pay the added parts and labor.  It is something I had been planning to have the local computer shop do for me, but I am afraid that if I do that then I’ll just end up with this same problem later on down the road - this way if they install it for me, then the computer knows it is supposed to be there and I know I got the right one for the computer.