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I have begun transcribing my old LXG 1936 notes into English, and thence into actual Diary material. It's been a while, but I think I can get back into it. I'm really quite fond of the characters involved, even though my own character trusts the Shadow about as far as he could spit in the Yukon in January, and I can't wait to play again, even if it's only ever by email.

However, in the meantime I must content myself with Diary foo. And, on days when the Diary stuff isn't flowing properly, with side stories - I've got a bargain with utsuri to live up to, after all. Even if it does mean I may have to flee, now and again, to the rather unnerving AU a friend who'd read the original Diary material suggested. You have to admit that a dog like Prince (or the original King, from the radio and TV series) would very quickly wind up with a $25,000 bounty on his head from drug dealers if he and his owner were modern-day Canadian law enforcement...

I really really really don't want to have to do research on Thailand and the drug wars. I don't care if "Sergeant Preston and the Golden Triangle" is a great title. Unfortunately, telling my brain this does no good, because it scampers off and comes back with an alternative - involving things like human trafficking rings in Vancouver, a Richter 8.4 earthquake taking out most of the cities on Vancouver Island, and the like.

Stupid brain. Let's finish the Diary first, mmkay? Thanks.

Goddamn lousy fairies crashed my computer.

No, seriously. I was bangin' my way through the next Diary of a Mountie installment, and I'd just about gotten to the point where the group encounters a fairy, and BAM - Word crashes. Illegal operation error.

I close another program and try opening Word again. BAM - same error, not even allowing the file to open.

I try to get some more work done in Internet Explorer, which is how we access our fundraising data now, and bring down two fingers in EXACTLY the right combination to cause the computer to think I'm trying to type in the pinyin for Chinese characters. Which I am not, but I could not figure out how to turn that option off. Ultimately all my programs develop illegal operation errors, and so I am forced to reboot, at which point I find that the Diary entry I was working on was last saved a little before a two-paragraph-long edit.

*sigh* Lousy fairies. At least I didn't lose more than a paragraph or two - and I already had a page or two done before that.