Lizardbeth's Tale

Today poor kiddo had to play soccer and it was over 90 degrees at 10 a.m. HOT. ugh. I don't have a/c because we live not far from the water, so we don't usually need it. But today? I NEEDS IT PRECIOUS. So we took the car and went to the mall and then various other errands, just to mooch off their a/c. Later we're going out to dinner, because I don't want to even walk into the kitchen.

Plus it makes me all sleepy being hot in my house, and uninspired to do anything. (though I think I'll somehow manage to watch DW later. Cuz not ALL fandom can be denied even when it's hot *g*)

Seen a few of those video spammer things, and it's always bizarre to me how they FIND the posts. Some sort of random link generator? Because they certainly don't seem to care if it's a comm that's dead or not. I got one at facing_kate (the comm that's the precursor to fairlylegal) and while I've now insured it can't happen again by closing comments to members only, I'm still puzzled on how they found the post at all.

Not that this matters when there is 24 hours to NPT FICATHON DEADLINE. OMG. DEAD. NOT DONE. MUST WORK. Why does this suck so hard?

and also find a title.

I hope all who celebrated had a good Thanksgiving. Mine was quiet and nice. I feel like I haven't felt warm in days -- it's cool here, by no means cold compared to some, but two nights ago I felt like I was camping in our bedroom, it was so frakking chilly. I theoretically have a furnace, but there's only one vent for the house, so it's not the most useful thing. Maybe we need a space heater. (Not that I'm buying one this week, because that is CRAZY TALK).

We watched all of Punkin Chunkin competition and, of course, The Kid built a lego catapult when we got home. I hope he uses his power for good when he's a teenager!

Volcano on AMC today. My favoritest LA disaster movie. ever. You can't really get the awesome without knowing all the landmarks they're destroying, but watching the fiberglass mammoths at the tar pits MELT fills me with evil glee, I admit. :)

I am 11000 words off of NaNo, with only a few days left. eek But the boys are going to the auto show later, leaving me in peace to write, so I should have a couple hours free and clear. SO CLOSE

So yesterday as part of my fun stats I tried to count how many times I wrote Kara and Sam. I did this by replacing the word with the same word, since the program counts how many times it's replaced. Kara works fine since it doesn't form any other words.

'Sam' not so much, if CERTAIN MORONS forget to check the box to only look for the capital. So now I have words like 'same' that have become "Same". arrrgh.

ETA: Since this is ALSO a *head desk* moment, I'll just add it.

Dear Brain, writing a BSG parody version of the LONGEST FRAKKING SONG IN THE HISTORY OF EVER was not your smartest move. Especially when you have edits to be doing.

no love, me.

bsg_bigbang has now put up the drop-out post. Rough drafts are due in a week, and final drafts are due in Sept. 6.

hrmpf. And this is where my distraction-by-shiny has not served well. I have the minimum words but nowhere near the whole story. Not to mention I would have to finish the full draft by mid Aug since I'm going away on vacation, and while I can probably re-edit there, I'm not likely to be able to really write much. Plus beta time.

Which looks very bleak, but I do have things written in other files. I should probably put it all together and then see where I'm really at.

*

In other news, not only do I have a broken hinge, my G key is wonky. It seems okay right now, but sometimes it just stops working. dumb thing.

And there was Lost-flavored K/S fic yesterday, if you missed it.

I managed to flood the laundry room and part of the kitchen yesterday. Even better, it happened because I was being stupid, not because the wash machine broke or anything accidental like that. BRAIN, PLEASE COME BACK! It's all cleaned up now, but I think I might have damaged the under-floor. All for something that didn't even need to be washed in the first place! (and if it should've been, I shouldn't have tried to do it at home. *head desk*

And in unconnected, but equally iffy news, I snapped the hinge on my laptop lid.

But it's raining a little, which is always a pleasant surprise, especially at the end of May!

The good news is the not-so-crackish crack!fic has now crossed 10K words. The bad news is that it's not even halfway, for the terms of the challenge. *sigh* However it is progressing nicely. So there's that. Also, I suck at writing cracky, fluffy crack. But we knew that.

I wanna post my long fic. /whine

I grabbed my Super Epic of Doom Distorted Reflections for AO3. It formatted pretty well, except I still have to go into each chapter and manually fix the chapter titles, and take out all my blather at each chapter that's a relic from posting it chapter by chapter. Not so bad, over all, though.

I got another comment for Road to Tartarus. YAY. (for yes, they are precious like gold and myrrh).

So, I'm in that stage in my BSG Big Bang fic where I have all the balls in the air, I know where they fall (I've written most of it already), and yet ... man, so many threads to keep track of. I wrote a whole page of notes today just trying to make sure I know exactly when everyone knows certain important facts and I don't screw it up.

I can also tell you that planting clues without making them anvils is not as easy as it looks! I want the eventual reaction to the resolution to be "of course! that's awesome!" not "ZOMGWTF?", so I need to lay the groundwork, and yet, of course, I don't want to give it all away.

IZ HARD. *sniff*

Anyway, it's a different process to writing Road to Tartarus, because that one was complete in itself, whereas Ariadne is ... the middle. There'll be another part covering "Season 4"-ish with the resolution, so I can't really resolve anything. It's making my inner structuralist very twitchy.

I suppose I should write, rather than bitching about it.

(and also I have claimed a prompt for sg_rarepairings. Because I don't have enough to do this fall!)

ETA: okay, why did I not know until just now that anberlin covered "True Faith"? It's kind of weirding me out, yet I keep replaying it.

Figures that when I finally get a chance to upload Road to Tartarus to ff.net after being gone for two weeks, the uploader's not working. *frowny face* All the maintainers must be at D*C.

Ariadne, my BSG Big Bang, has now crossed the 38,000 threshold and counting. You might notice that was originally going to come out before Big Bang, and then I was going to use the fourth and final story in the sequence as my Big Bang entry. I might - emphasis on MIGHT- be able to swing both, since they're both in various states of draft and fully plotted. But then again, I have kidlet until school starts next week. So, yeah, I dunno. Probably not if I'm honest.

In other news, it's 85 degrees inside my house. yuck. We're off to find some cool place somewhere.

Kidlet had an "all about me" photo poster project for today, and so yesterday I grabbed a picture of Lightning McQueen to put on the poster as one of his favorite things. I downloaded it into my "My Downloads" folder, cuz that's where I keep all the stuff that isn't family pictures (those go in the My Pictures folder). Then I wanted to print it of course, so I opened it in the Gallery to use the printing wizard and it asked me if I wanted to import it into the Gallery. I said yes.

AND IT IMPORTED EVERYTHING in the folder: all my fannish pictures, my gazillion screencaps, and all my icons. Which is bad enough that the gallery is now unnecessarily cluttered with that stuff when it was all nicely organized in the other folder. But WORSE - it also imported all the TAGS. Pro photos can have a dozen tags imbedded... So I got new tags with exciting and useful organizational things like color, standing, one-shot, retouch, horizontal, hospital, boxing gloves, etc. Not to mention each collection (for the gazillion of Photo Bank pics) got its own tag.

FAIL.

So I started stripping the useless tags last night and decided I might as well start tagging them with useful tags (the imported tags didn't include the names of the people in the image which boggles my mind -- NBC tags by "color" and not by "Katee Sackhoff"? duh). Most weren't tagged at all though). OMG SO TEDIOUS.

But since they got mixed up with Rugrat as a baby, I got to AWWWW a lot. :)