Hmm. Also grump.

[ellarien]

msagara posted about online friendships. And something went click in my brain, and suddenly I have a new idea for one of my works-not-in-progress.

Which I could really do without, when I'm juggling four unfinished professional papers, and anyway it never gets me anywhere. I haven't written more than abortive beginnings of things in about four years.

In other grumpiness, I checked one of my little-used e-mail accounts this evening and found that the service is going away at the end of the month. So I spent an hour or so going through old e-mails and forwarding the possibly-useful ones to either work or home, while the computer whined every ten minutes that I hadn't rebooted it yet after installing updates, and wouldn't I like to do that now?


There's been a chilly wind all day, but the sky was clear blue.

New Computer at work continues to astonish with the variety and ingenuity of its screensavers. Some of them are downright headache-inducing, some of them are beautiful; nearly all of them are distracting. One of them involves a chessboard beautifully rendered in 3-d. I think I'd seen that one go by before, but I hadn't realized until this afternoon that the pieces were actually moving -- legal moves, culminating in a checkmate after which the board faded away and was replaced by a new one.