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Belated report
Oct. 3rd, 2014 11:57 amWednesday was eventful.
I went to town, and first went to Best Buy and spent my birthday money and then some. I'd been trying to talk myself out of the portable laptop, but after a month of trying, I figured I really did want it and got an Asus X200MA. So far it's very nice; Windows 8 is more tractable than I thought, it even has a touchscreen, and the keyboard is surprisingly comfortable for such a small machine. It's so compact it came without an optical drive, but I've had my eye on an external one anyway. I haven't really broken it in yet, but so far I like it, and this way living on my computer won't necessarily trap me in my room. ^_~;
The next eventful part was mother nature; I happened to go to town just when a storm system was coming through. There were tornado sirens and I got locked down in the Hastings store for maybe half an hour, but the worst of it missed us. The nice thing about it was there was no shortage of books to read while we waited it out --- although I was sitting there like "please don't blow away my car and my new computer," and later I was at a grocery store and they said they'd given people cookies while they locked down so I missed out on cookies.
Finally was the reason I'd gone out that day, there was a local writers' group that met at the library and one of my Unitarians was involved in it. I'd wanted to check it out last month and didn't, so this month I went, and it was nice. Four people were there that day. My friend from church is a poet and brought a poem, another guy had an excerpt of a fantasy story (here's his website), and I had a short original piece I'd written awhile back. We read our stuff aloud and critiqued each other. I haven't done that in so long I'm going to have to feel my way back into it, but that'll be good for me. I asked if bringing fanfic was okay and everyone was totally open to that, like they didn't even see why I should be self-conscious about it. I still am, but it was very good to get that response and see how far culture has come on accepting that stuff. The group has a Wordpress site where some of the members' writing is posted. In the library again we got herded down to the basement for awhile and just had the rest of our meeting there. They meet monthly, and I plan to go back.
That is a nice library, but I'm out of its service area. I could get a library card for an annual fee, but I haven't quite decided it's worth it just yet.
So, it was a good day, weather notwithstanding.
I went to town, and first went to Best Buy and spent my birthday money and then some. I'd been trying to talk myself out of the portable laptop, but after a month of trying, I figured I really did want it and got an Asus X200MA. So far it's very nice; Windows 8 is more tractable than I thought, it even has a touchscreen, and the keyboard is surprisingly comfortable for such a small machine. It's so compact it came without an optical drive, but I've had my eye on an external one anyway. I haven't really broken it in yet, but so far I like it, and this way living on my computer won't necessarily trap me in my room. ^_~;
The next eventful part was mother nature; I happened to go to town just when a storm system was coming through. There were tornado sirens and I got locked down in the Hastings store for maybe half an hour, but the worst of it missed us. The nice thing about it was there was no shortage of books to read while we waited it out --- although I was sitting there like "please don't blow away my car and my new computer," and later I was at a grocery store and they said they'd given people cookies while they locked down so I missed out on cookies.
Finally was the reason I'd gone out that day, there was a local writers' group that met at the library and one of my Unitarians was involved in it. I'd wanted to check it out last month and didn't, so this month I went, and it was nice. Four people were there that day. My friend from church is a poet and brought a poem, another guy had an excerpt of a fantasy story (here's his website), and I had a short original piece I'd written awhile back. We read our stuff aloud and critiqued each other. I haven't done that in so long I'm going to have to feel my way back into it, but that'll be good for me. I asked if bringing fanfic was okay and everyone was totally open to that, like they didn't even see why I should be self-conscious about it. I still am, but it was very good to get that response and see how far culture has come on accepting that stuff. The group has a Wordpress site where some of the members' writing is posted. In the library again we got herded down to the basement for awhile and just had the rest of our meeting there. They meet monthly, and I plan to go back.
That is a nice library, but I'm out of its service area. I could get a library card for an annual fee, but I haven't quite decided it's worth it just yet.
So, it was a good day, weather notwithstanding.
