A few Bits
Sep. 5th, 2024 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nyyki1. A new song for Dixie, to the tune of "Papa was a Rolling Stone", by The Temptations:
Dixie is a lazy dog,
Lying there on my bed like a log,
And every night, she is a total space hog.
2. I managed to get my old keyboard working by plugging it into the computer instead of my KVMA switch. This makes it clear there's some sort of issue between the keyboard and the switch. High Holy Hamster Heads! It's like night and day. I've been frustrated because it seems like a slog up a mountain in Colorado in January, both ways. But a half hour back on the old keyboard and I'm no longer having to slow down my thoughts because of interface issues. I can also feel a huge difference in build quality. I've got a replacement keyboard speeding its way to me, arriving between tomorrow and Wednesday. My single biggest reservation about trying to write another novel in a month is gone. This is so cool (and I also accept that I'm a technology nerd for typing that sentence).
3. Rain. I'm a fan of it. And the temperature drop is also welcome - 73° on Monday afternoon, that was unexpected but very much welcome.
4. I guess I'm going to have to accept that my moods are affected by that rock circling closest to the sun. I'm noticing a trend of low moods during Mercury Retrograde periods. I'll keep that in mind during future afflictions of retrogrades.
I think that's all for now.
Dixie is a lazy dog,
Lying there on my bed like a log,
And every night, she is a total space hog.
2. I managed to get my old keyboard working by plugging it into the computer instead of my KVMA switch. This makes it clear there's some sort of issue between the keyboard and the switch. High Holy Hamster Heads! It's like night and day. I've been frustrated because it seems like a slog up a mountain in Colorado in January, both ways. But a half hour back on the old keyboard and I'm no longer having to slow down my thoughts because of interface issues. I can also feel a huge difference in build quality. I've got a replacement keyboard speeding its way to me, arriving between tomorrow and Wednesday. My single biggest reservation about trying to write another novel in a month is gone. This is so cool (and I also accept that I'm a technology nerd for typing that sentence).
3. Rain. I'm a fan of it. And the temperature drop is also welcome - 73° on Monday afternoon, that was unexpected but very much welcome.
4. I guess I'm going to have to accept that my moods are affected by that rock circling closest to the sun. I'm noticing a trend of low moods during Mercury Retrograde periods. I'll keep that in mind during future afflictions of retrogrades.
I think that's all for now.
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Date: 2024-09-05 07:31 pm (UTC)Yay for working keyboard! And rain! And the end of Mercury’s retrograde.
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Date: 2024-09-05 07:57 pm (UTC)"Papa was a Rolling Stone" is eleven minutes long on the album. The single mix is a lot shorter, of course, but that's a tasty dance groove The Funk Brothers are putting behind them, so it'd spin well in clubs.