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[dc]M[/dc]y family’s annual camping trip was this past weekend.
I always look forward to this event: I get to unplug for a few days, relax, sit on a beach, and such. But, this year, because of the (self-inflicted) Write-a-Thon, I had to do a bit of work too.
Photo by me.
One would think, “Oh, I will be super relaxed without any responsibilities, I can easily write for a couple of hours in the day or evening.” Wrong.
Man, really. Think about it! Taken from this comic.
[dc]A[/dc]fter my recent iBook death, I was super-worried I would hit a comic-making roadblock.
Mainly, my not being able shell out $700 for Photoshop on top of paying for a new MacBook (I gots a hitchin’ ring to pay off too, y’all).
I was also worried my scanner would not work with my new gear either. A lack of Photoshop I can work around, but not having a scanner would have been a major pain. Yes, I could have shot photos with my DSLR, but it would be a hassle (however, I have read plenty of comics posted online in such a manner).
I can now say both of my issues have been addressed, and my comic production should continue without a missed strip (I uploaded this week’s and next week’s before the iBook died).
Photo by Duboix on morguefile.com.
[dc]T[/dc]he Clarion Write-a-Thon ends in ten days, and I have about fifteen hours of editing to finish in that time.
Not too difficult, that is really only about an hour and a half per day, which is not much more than my daily hour goal.
More importantly, I have fewer than eight chapters to get through. It is possible I will finish with the book itself before hitting my goal of 45 hours, but that doesn’t mean I will just stop. I will hit that mark, even if I have to go back and tweak a few things. I’m sure just running spell check on an 80 thousand word story will take up plenty of time.
Getting back into the groove with the new laptop took a few days, but it is going smoothly. I really like the keyboard on my MacBook Pro, which is always a plus. OpenOffice has made things much easier as well. For one, it doesn’t crash like Microsoft Word would (it just couldn’t handle documents with tens of thousands of words).
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Photo by me.
[dc]A[/dc]fter a few days of being laptop-less (there’s a mental image), I now have a new machine.
I took my iBook to the local Mac shop and asked the guys to do what they could. They were able to get my iBook running to the point where I could at least access my files and back-up my files to an external drive.
And perhaps most important of all, I was able to grab my Civilization 3 save files and export my Firefox bookmarks.
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