Random thoughts

[spectre]

After picking the series up when I was 14 then abandoning it for almost 2 decades I finished the Wheel of Time tonight. Excellent last three books, especially the first of the three. I've heard Sanderson take criticism but he did all this right. #Bucketlistseries

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[Tom]

I swear every writer has a horror story about technology betraying them and files getting vaporized.

Yep! I guess it's kind of an initiation rite.

Haha...Your stories remind me of the time when I couldn't find my phone and i suspected it was tangled up in the blankets on my bed so I gave them a flick and WHAM! It hit the ceiling and fell to the floor. Well, I found it. Ive dropped my phone down stairs and everything, but it's still just fine.

Oh man, that reminds me of what I did to my phone a while ago. So this summer, I went tent camping with a bunch of friends at Stony Brook State Park. This was like, immediately after I'd been working as a sports counselor at a summer camp for six weeks, so my phone had already been through hell and back.

We were hiking along the trail beside the creek to the natural swimming pool below the waterfalls, and my phone slipped out of my trunks pocket and fell into the creek. The trail is on a ledge running along the gorge, so it fell a good four feet before landing face-down on the creek bed. Underwater.

My best friend was like, "Dude, your phone is shot." But when I got down to the creek bed and fished it out, it was perfectly fine! Was still on and everything. (The next morning I almost dropped it into the fire while cooking breakfast, so I didn't really learn my lesson, if that's what the universe was trying to do.)

I must have good luck with technology or something. I've never broken a phone. Which is surprising, for someone whose catchphrase is "I know this is probably a bad idea, but..."

 

[La Volpe]

I don't know if it would be considered a spell, but rapping on the touchpad while swearing profusely seems to have fixed it.

Makes me think of my scroll button issue with my mouse. All of them, actually. One day, the scroll button just magically stops working. I don't know if scroll buttons don't like me or what, because no one else I know have ever had this problem, but it has happened to 3 or 4 of mine. Anyway, I googled about the problem, hoping to get a guide to taking apart the mouse and getting it to work again.

Instead, there was a guy in a forum post who said that you can fix the mouse with "rapid application of mouse on table". It sounded absurd, but several dozen posts on the forum reported that it worked, so I thought what the hell, and slammed my mouse on the table a couple of times.

And inexplicably, it worked. With every one of the mouses that I had scroll button issues with. Thanks, random guy on the internet.

 

[Tom]

I could make an IT guy faint by telling him how many serious tech problems I've fixed with the "turning it off and on again" and "hitting it against a hard surface" methods.

 

[Chessie]

I think my husband broke my toe by accidentally dropping the BOSU on it.

Sigh. The casualties of marriage.

 

[Incanus]

Hello everyone.

I was away for a little while, but I’m back now. I may as well mention what happened.

So, I had myself a heart-attack on the evening of 10/9/16, but I didn’t know that’s what it was while it was happening. It was sort of surprising but not totally unexpected—my dad had this issue and I take after him quite a bit.

Anyway, three days later I went in for a triple bypass. A bit of an ordeal. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly in shape for writing during and after that. It was about a month before I could pick up the pen again.

But, I’m doing well. I had great aftercare by my family (including not one, but TWO nurses who are sisters). I’m otherwise healthy, not overweight, non-smoker, and I have no other complications.

I’m back at work (you know, day job) and almost back to normal.

So that’s all for now. Hope everyone here has been doing well.

 

[Ireth]

Glad to know you're okay, Incanus!

 

[Incanus]

Thanks, Ireth! I'm really happy to be approaching 'normal' again. Or course, normal for me is weird for most. As it should be.

 

[Nimue]

Oh my goodness, Incanus, I'm sorry you had to go through all that! It's good to have you back--and better to know that you're feeling better. Take it easy!

 

[Tom]

Good to have you back, Incanus! Take care of yourself.

 

[ThinkerX]

Hello everyone.

I was away for a little while, but I’m back now. I may as well mention what happened.

So, I had myself a heart-attack on the evening of 10/9/16, but I didn’t know that’s what it was while it was happening. It was sort of surprising but not totally unexpected—my dad had this issue and I take after him quite a bit.

Anyway, three days later I went in for a triple bypass. A bit of an ordeal. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly in shape for writing during and after that. It was about a month before I could pick up the pen again.

But, I’m doing well. I had great aftercare by my family (including not one, but TWO nurses who are sisters). I’m otherwise healthy, not overweight, non-smoker, and I have no other complications.

I’m back at work (you know, day job) and almost back to normal.

So that’s all for now. Hope everyone here has been doing well.

Don't take after Franz Werfel - the guy who completed his magnum opus mere days before his demise.

'Star of the Unborn' (a truly strange fantasy novel from a couple generations back)

 

[spectre]

Hello everyone.

I was away for a little while, but I’m back now. I may as well mention what happened.

So, I had myself a heart-attack on the evening of 10/9/16, but I didn’t know that’s what it was while it was happening. It was sort of surprising but not totally unexpected—my dad had this issue and I take after him quite a bit.

Anyway, three days later I went in for a triple bypass. A bit of an ordeal. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly in shape for writing during and after that. It was about a month before I could pick up the pen again.

But, I’m doing well. I had great aftercare by my family (including not one, but TWO nurses who are sisters). I’m otherwise healthy, not overweight, non-smoker, and I have no other complications.

I’m back at work (you know, day job) and almost back to normal.

So that’s all for now. Hope everyone here has been doing well.

welcome back and happy health


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[Russ]

Hello everyone.

I was away for a little while, but I’m back now. I may as well mention what happened.

So, I had myself a heart-attack on the evening of 10/9/16, but I didn’t know that’s what it was while it was happening. It was sort of surprising but not totally unexpected—my dad had this issue and I take after him quite a bit.

Anyway, three days later I went in for a triple bypass. A bit of an ordeal. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly in shape for writing during and after that. It was about a month before I could pick up the pen again.

But, I’m doing well. I had great aftercare by my family (including not one, but TWO nurses who are sisters). I’m otherwise healthy, not overweight, non-smoker, and I have no other complications.

I’m back at work (you know, day job) and almost back to normal.

So that’s all for now. Hope everyone here has been doing well.

Good for you on the recovery going so well.

I had my MI on Oct 29/2016 and am back at work, back to sports and full speed ahead, feeling better than before, with a quick three stents put in.

Modern medical technology is really amazing.

Maybe we should start a club or something!

 

[Incanus]

Thanks everyone! It's nice to be back--not that I post a ton or anything.

Russ--sorry to hear you've been through something similar. They actually gave me the option for stents, but thought I should take care of this more thoroughly. The good news is that I may never need a bypass again.

I'm glad to be done with this part of the whole thing, the healing part. Can't quite ever have the old lifestyle back though. No more salty snack foods for me! D'oh!

 

[Ronald T.]

Hello everyone.

I was away for a little while, but I’m back now. I may as well mention what happened.

So, I had myself a heart-attack on the evening of 10/9/16, but I didn’t know that’s what it was while it was happening. It was sort of surprising but not totally unexpected—my dad had this issue and I take after him quite a bit.

Anyway, three days later I went in for a triple bypass. A bit of an ordeal. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly in shape for writing during and after that. It was about a month before I could pick up the pen again.

But, I’m doing well. I had great aftercare by my family (including not one, but TWO nurses who are sisters). I’m otherwise healthy, not overweight, non-smoker, and I have no other complications.

I’m back at work (you know, day job) and almost back to normal.

So that’s all for now. Hope everyone here has been doing well.

I'm so sorry to hear you had to go through such an ordeal. That's scary stuff. But I'm extremely happy to hear you're doing so much better now. I'm so glad you're able to continue your writing. I always consider writing a form of therapy -- both physical and mental. I hope that you have a full recovery and that it happens soon. If my wishes mean anything to the powers of the universe, then you'll be running marathons before you know it.

But take your time to heal, fully. Everything else can wait.

As always, all my best to you, Incanus.

 

[Tom]

I just spent like half an hour freaking out over the sound in my animation final. It wasn't playing and I tried messing with the settings, then converted the sound file to like three different formats, and even considered deleting that section of the animation...

Then I realized I put the sound in the final scene instead of the first scene, and I'd only been playing about half the instant preview to check the sound. Oh my god, I'm so tired....when I figured out what I'd done I started laughing/crying hysterically....What are finals doing to me.

 

[Brian Scott Allen]

I just spent like half an hour freaking out over the sound in my animation final. It wasn't playing and I tried messing with the settings, then converted the sound file to like three different formats, and even considered deleting that section of the animation...

Then I realized I put the sound in the final scene instead of the first scene, and I'd only been playing about half the instant preview to check the sound. Oh my god, I'm so tired....when I figured out what I'd done I started laughing/crying hysterically....What are finals doing to me.

You have my sympathies. I cannot express how glad I am I can say never again to taking a final. You'll get there soon Tom. Just make sure you punch the computer program that caused such frustration in the mouth.

 

[Tom]

You have my sympathies. I cannot express how glad I am I can say never again to taking a final. You'll get there soon Tom. Just make sure you punch the computer program that caused such frustration in the mouth.

Thanks, Brian. I ended up turning the animation in on time! (Unfortunately, as the program in question was on one of the brand-new Macs we just got in the digital art lab, I did not end up punching it in the mouth.)

After I'm done with this paper I'm working on, that'll be it for the semester! I can't wait to catch up on sleep. I've been getting to bed at 2-3 am for the last three weeks or so.

 

[ThinkerX]

Thanks everyone! It's nice to be back--not that I post a ton or anything.

Russ--sorry to hear you've been through something similar. They actually gave me the option for stents, but thought I should take care of this more thoroughly. The good news is that I may never need a bypass again.

I'm glad to be done with this part of the whole thing, the healing part. Can't quite ever have the old lifestyle back though. No more salty snack foods for me! D'oh!

So, just where in your WIP does the heart attack scene go? Or is that for the next book?

 

[Incanus]

So, just where in your WIP does the heart attack scene go? Or is that for the next book?

Ha! No heart-attack scenes... yet. But I'll tell you what--I should be able to write characters experiencing great discomfort or pain more convincingly now. Or characters recovering from dire wounds, or that sort of thing. Should be pretty genuine.