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camwynBut I got SQL installed on the wiped server, and I got the FrontPage configuration right, and our coder says he can publish to FrontPage, at least with the basics. So that's good. I can collapse in a puddle of goo now. I mean, I still have other work to do, but the part that terrified me most seems to be growling in a corner instead of actively biting, so I'm good.
My sister's having a second baby in April. Mazel tov, kiddo, even though I know you don't read this.
I need to work on my original fiction; I've got a fair amount of it built up in my head, and can feel it gnawing its way out. Not quite literally, but close, since lately I've been turning over someone's statement about The Descent and considering it. I don't think I've ever had nightmares or unreasoning terrors of the big things like OH DEAR GOD WHAT UNKNOWN HORRORS LURK BENEATH THE EARTH; mine have all been of really messed-up things about people, or better yet, they've been of disease. Not necessarily of me getting sick, but there's something about the disease process and the medical world that just lends itself more naturally to scaring the bahoogies out of me than the possibility of mere creatures. I seem to have become good at creepy over the past few years. I need to accumulate some more of it and then start blitzing the publishers until SOMEONE picks up a story.
I also need to work on some Milliways stuff. We've hit a big old summer doldrum for a number of reasons ("AIEEEE! NEW YORK CITY IS MEELLLLLLLLLTIIIIIING!"), but I still feel personally either guilty or worried about the current level of activity there. I don't always put my characters in during the day the way I used to; I'm sharing office space with our coder AND with three auditors. Plus with Sarbanes auditing going on we've got the accounting office people running in and out more than they used to. I can't always post because I'm afraid someone will stop me at it. Add in the fact that sometimes I look at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
milliways_bar and see posts left over from last night still on the front page- or I see fresh posts that are, unfortunately, from characters I just don't want to interact with-
Yes. Okay. I should put that out in the open: there are characters that I just don't want to interact with. Sooner or later, that's going to happen. If it were just IC reasons I wouldn't feel so crummy about it, but sometimes I just look at other people's characters and think, "you know, I'm not interested in having any of my characters talk to that character, even if they've met before." And then it gets worse because when I do work up the free time and nerve to put my characters in, the activity's so low in general that I can't help but think, "this is karmic revenge for refusing to interact with characters you're not interested in. Don't complain, or you'll be a hypocrite."
*sigh*
Anyway. I have to deal with the following:
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gone_byebye - I need to talk to Indiana Jones' mun. I want to do something plotwise with the Ark of the Covenant in Ray's world,w hich may or may not be the same as the one that I think is currently in Lara Croft's possession.
milkbonesoldier - Annie and Arithon need to play out some more scenage when both of us are on at the same time. As part of that, I also need to do another Long Shadows OOM or two- the Special Forces captain at Gruinard Island is still alive, and he's really not happy. Plus, Harry needs to teach Ace how to hit things.
twoeyesonthesky - I need to get off my arse and finish the current World Without Magic thread so that I can start moving the poor boy through canon, and so Creedy-mun and Veronica Mars-mun can move their characters as well- we're doing a world where one of the people in Van Zant's company is that world's Veronica Mars, who was the one who did the epidemiology on the dragons after a dragon killed Lilly Kane.
Those are the big ones at the moment. If anyone can think of other stuff I should remember, lemme know.
My sister's having a second baby in April. Mazel tov, kiddo, even though I know you don't read this.
I need to work on my original fiction; I've got a fair amount of it built up in my head, and can feel it gnawing its way out. Not quite literally, but close, since lately I've been turning over someone's statement about The Descent and considering it. I don't think I've ever had nightmares or unreasoning terrors of the big things like OH DEAR GOD WHAT UNKNOWN HORRORS LURK BENEATH THE EARTH; mine have all been of really messed-up things about people, or better yet, they've been of disease. Not necessarily of me getting sick, but there's something about the disease process and the medical world that just lends itself more naturally to scaring the bahoogies out of me than the possibility of mere creatures. I seem to have become good at creepy over the past few years. I need to accumulate some more of it and then start blitzing the publishers until SOMEONE picks up a story.
I also need to work on some Milliways stuff. We've hit a big old summer doldrum for a number of reasons ("AIEEEE! NEW YORK CITY IS MEELLLLLLLLLTIIIIIING!"), but I still feel personally either guilty or worried about the current level of activity there. I don't always put my characters in during the day the way I used to; I'm sharing office space with our coder AND with three auditors. Plus with Sarbanes auditing going on we've got the accounting office people running in and out more than they used to. I can't always post because I'm afraid someone will stop me at it. Add in the fact that sometimes I look at
milliways_bar and see posts left over from last night still on the front page- or I see fresh posts that are, unfortunately, from characters I just don't want to interact with-Yes. Okay. I should put that out in the open: there are characters that I just don't want to interact with. Sooner or later, that's going to happen. If it were just IC reasons I wouldn't feel so crummy about it, but sometimes I just look at other people's characters and think, "you know, I'm not interested in having any of my characters talk to that character, even if they've met before." And then it gets worse because when I do work up the free time and nerve to put my characters in, the activity's so low in general that I can't help but think, "this is karmic revenge for refusing to interact with characters you're not interested in. Don't complain, or you'll be a hypocrite."
*sigh*
Anyway. I have to deal with the following:
gone_byebye - I need to talk to Indiana Jones' mun. I want to do something plotwise with the Ark of the Covenant in Ray's world,w hich may or may not be the same as the one that I think is currently in Lara Croft's possession.milkbonesoldier - Annie and Arithon need to play out some more scenage when both of us are on at the same time. As part of that, I also need to do another Long Shadows OOM or two- the Special Forces captain at Gruinard Island is still alive, and he's really not happy. Plus, Harry needs to teach Ace how to hit things.twoeyesonthesky - I need to get off my arse and finish the current World Without Magic thread so that I can start moving the poor boy through canon, and so Creedy-mun and Veronica Mars-mun can move their characters as well- we're doing a world where one of the people in Van Zant's company is that world's Veronica Mars, who was the one who did the epidemiology on the dragons after a dragon killed Lilly Kane. Those are the big ones at the moment. If anyone can think of other stuff I should remember, lemme know.
