Busy Day

[ellarien]

I feel as though I've been running around all day. I started off by catching the bus down to the office to pick up a package and next month's bus pass; then, after a quick lunch, I popped down to the grocery store for a few things. After that, I headed to big-box-land for yarn and socks and a keyboard and some seasonal gifts of the digital kind. Since then, I've been futzing around between living room and study, decomissioning the old desktop, installing the printer and the creaky old scanner on Real Laptop, and getting Old Laptop and Real Laptop to talk to one another again. (I had a nice little home network set up about a year ago; then I installed AOL on the desktop, and it stopped talking to the other machines. Then there was the disk crash, of course, that set Real Laptop back to factory defaults.) I'm pretty much set now, I think, except that I forgot to pick up a floppy drive; Real Laptop can take over the load from the desktop, and I'm ready to be a two-computer instead of three-computer household again.

It looks as though Scrapbook is working better today, except that a couple of my recent photos seem to have gone missing. If they don't show up soon, I might try deleting and reloading them. Otherwise, I seem to have mostly escaped the moving glitches; one comment notification went missing, and things were slow for a while, but all my icons stayed put.

(Edit: sigh. I went and reuploaded the photos, and now they're fine but the userpic based on one of them has gone awol.)

(Edit2: Never mind. All better now.)

As an experiment, here's my new desktop wallpaper:

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Ooh, pretty.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Have you thought about using Flickr for your pictures? Maybe you already do, but it seems like LJs scrapbook feature is a bit buggy, and Flickr is fabulous. I pretty much live there. You can make it as public or private as you like, but I like the sharing - the community there is very friendly and supportive. Usually the worst that happens is that noone comments, but you'd probably find yourself well received :)

[ellarien]

I've thought about it, and I probably should try it at some stage. I've been a little intimidated by the quality of the photos over there, to be honest.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Oh heavens, from what I've seen of yours, you have nothing to be modest about. If you just go by what's in the "explore" or "interestingness" pages, yes, it can be quite intimidating. Or inspiring, depending on how you look at it. I've learned heaps since I've been in there, and gotten more and more confident (and better!). Plus, again, you don't really have to put your work out there much beyond to friends and family and the odd "contact" if you don't want to. It took me a while before I plucked up the courage to start joining groups, and I still would never join one of the really competitive ones (there's one called "deleteme" where people make a game of saying rude things about your pics - not for me!!). But it works really well, and "plays well" with other things like LJ - all the photos I post in LJ are linked to my Flickr page.

[ellarien]

All right, you talked me into it! Thanks for the encouragement.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm Debbie G on Flickr if you happen to be passing by, and I'd love to have you as a contact :)

[ellarien]

Thanks! I found you. I'm ellarien over there too, to keep things simple.