Furthermore...

[desperance]

In other news, my VCR (yes, I am a dinosaur; why do you ask?) appears to be on its last legs. I thought, if I could do nothing else, I could watch taped episodes of House; but there are all these hiatuses (hiatii? Haiti?) where it seems to have jammed for five or ten seconds, frozen picture and no sound. Except that the tape clearly hasn't stuck, it's actually recorded five or ten seconds of freeze-frame, which is a bit weird. I would put it down to interference on the cable, but it hasn't happened when I've been watching live, only on the recorded channel, and for three nights consecutively. I dunno, maybe it's a loose connection somewhere (the cats do spend a lot of time jumping on & off the set-top digibox, trying to knock it to the floor); but I'm going to cost those DVD recorder thingies anyway. Not that I can afford one. Can't afford anything. Sigh. Remind me again, why ain't I rich...?

Sheesh, but I do not want to write today. I've just looked at all my current projects consecutively, and none of them is stuck, I know where I'm going with each of 'em - and nothing. I sit and gaze at 'em, and the well is empty. Which it has not been for sooo long, I'd forgotten almost that this can happen.

Maybe I'll go for a walk, see if that makes any difference. Maybe I'll go to the shops. I can't feel any crapper out there than I do in here...

Comments

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

I had to look up 'hiatus', being geeky like that, and it's a fourth-declension noun (hiatus, -us) so the pl is also 'hiatus.' Dang those sneaky Romans!

Wordsworth spent a lot of time walking (though I suspect it was Dorothy who did the shopping) so if it worked for him...

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad you looked that up (hiatus, not Wordsworth): I was wondering if that was it. Now if only I knew how to do the flat line over the 'u' to indicate that it's a long one (IIRC)...

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

I did try to find out how to do the flat line over the 'u' and concluded that punctuation on LJ is a Snare and a Delusion. That could be because my LJ-fu is practically non-existent, of course.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

What I do for LJ accents (as I have noooo idea how to do them in LJ) is do 'em in my word-processor then cut'n'paste. That works.

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thank you! My word-processor-fu is marginally better than my LJ-fu. Oh, how I miss my Olympia typewritewr!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Boo hiss, the fourth declension is no fun at all - but bless you for looking. Are you a Latin-speaking person, or do you just have a dictionary to hand? (I collect Latinists, for later use...)

It was certainly Dorothy who went to collect the post. Six miles each way, if I remember, and sometimes she went twice a day. We shall not look upon their like again...

But I did walk, and the sun came out; and I helped a lost French person, who lived in Sweden for love but was looking for Castle Leazes; and I came home with a whole lot of chocolate; and now I am munching a tapas of olive-fried bread and crisped pancetta (eww - greasy-fingered typist!) while I do actually think about working. Is this a virtue, or is it avoidance? Should I actually be cleaning the kitchen...?

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

I scraped through Latin A-level a-many years ago so I've forgotten most of it, alas. Though I do have a bi-lingual copy of ALL Catullus' poems, including the naughty ones we weren't allowed to read!

Thinking about working is always a virtue.