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Apparently beta reading levels of concentration are harder on my eyes than normal reading or writing levels. My eyes were aching horribly last night and had been since I did two pages of beta reading. Some of that may have been that I was fool enough to work in a dark room, but I think that some of it was a different sort of focused attention. I've got three more pages, I think, left on this one. I'm hoping it won't take me too long. I'm just not going to start until after breakfast.
I picked up a Chocolate Box pinch hit yesterday. I grabbed it because I had something almost done for that prompt anyway. The person the story's for reliably makes this same request in pretty much any exchange for which the fandom is eligible, so I had been thinking that giving it to them later on would likely still be something that would please them and had put the story aside.
The main beta comment I got amounted to it being okay as is but being likely to be better if it was much longer and explored some of the things I brought up. I might do that before reveals. I might not. I figure this is the bus draft (good enough if I get hit by a bus and can't change it), so I posted it after correcting a couple of things.
I started a different story for someone on the pinch hit list. I didn't offer to take the pinch hit, and someone else claimed. I think that's just as well because the story is utterly refusing to go where the prompt wanted it to go. Massive introspection and metaphysics really doesn't equal angst and porn, and if I keep what I've got, adding on angsty non-con porn will be a weird tonal shift.
We have no school today because of the big winter storm. Our house is just a tiny bit north of the point where the biggest band of snowfall was/is expected, and looking out the back window, I don't think we've even gotten an inch. The storm was expected to hit hardest along I-94 (between Chicago and Detroit) and south of that which pretty much runs the line between horrible and maybe not quite that bad through the middle of Ann Arbor.
The call from the school district last night came unusually early and mentioned that the state police asked people not to drive on I-94 at all today, and I rather suspect that the state police also asked school districts in the potential danger zone not to stay open.
Scott's commute is all north of where we are (and so north of the expected heaviest snowfall), so he went to work. We weren't particularly worried about the drive there. The drive home may be more problematic, but if the snow doesn't get heavier in the next five hours, that's not going to be an issue.
The prediction was for wet, heavy snow more than deep snow, so we're probably looking at ice over packed snow for a while.
I slept another four hours this morning after Scott got up, and I'm still draggingly exhausted. I used the c-PAP the whole time. I didn't wake with a headache, at least.
My phone is showing further signs of dying. It now doesn't want to download my Gmail even when I have wifi. Doing Ingress even with wifi now effectively impossible. Gdocs and Chrome were still okay the last I checked, but I rather expect that Gdocs will go soon and that Chrome will start to choke on things like podcasts and video. The only thing I can find that's obviously wrong (apart from things not working) is that the time according to the phone is consistently off from every other device in the household even though all three of our phones are supposed to be getting the time from the same network. It's only about 30 seconds difference, but I suspect that it's a sign of other things not working.
I wonder if that 30 second difference is enough to make Ingress not work? It's meant to be a real time game and what I can do relies on where I am at a particular time. I'm still getting accurate GPS coordinates, but maybe the time being wrong matters?
At any rate, Scott ordered me a used iPhone5S (should that 's' be capitalized? I don't care enough to look it up) last night. I'm not completely convinced that will be more than a stopgap on the way to something more expensive, but maybe that stopgap will give us time to save a little?
Sadly, I don't think that the new phone is likely to arrive soon enough to let me recharge the portal I've had for 100 days. I managed to get far enough into Ingress to be able to see the portal, but my efforts to recharge keep coming back as 'Action Failed.' I will try, once Scott is home, to pass the key to him, but I kind of suspect that I won't be able to drop it.
I picked up a Chocolate Box pinch hit yesterday. I grabbed it because I had something almost done for that prompt anyway. The person the story's for reliably makes this same request in pretty much any exchange for which the fandom is eligible, so I had been thinking that giving it to them later on would likely still be something that would please them and had put the story aside.
The main beta comment I got amounted to it being okay as is but being likely to be better if it was much longer and explored some of the things I brought up. I might do that before reveals. I might not. I figure this is the bus draft (good enough if I get hit by a bus and can't change it), so I posted it after correcting a couple of things.
I started a different story for someone on the pinch hit list. I didn't offer to take the pinch hit, and someone else claimed. I think that's just as well because the story is utterly refusing to go where the prompt wanted it to go. Massive introspection and metaphysics really doesn't equal angst and porn, and if I keep what I've got, adding on angsty non-con porn will be a weird tonal shift.
We have no school today because of the big winter storm. Our house is just a tiny bit north of the point where the biggest band of snowfall was/is expected, and looking out the back window, I don't think we've even gotten an inch. The storm was expected to hit hardest along I-94 (between Chicago and Detroit) and south of that which pretty much runs the line between horrible and maybe not quite that bad through the middle of Ann Arbor.
The call from the school district last night came unusually early and mentioned that the state police asked people not to drive on I-94 at all today, and I rather suspect that the state police also asked school districts in the potential danger zone not to stay open.
Scott's commute is all north of where we are (and so north of the expected heaviest snowfall), so he went to work. We weren't particularly worried about the drive there. The drive home may be more problematic, but if the snow doesn't get heavier in the next five hours, that's not going to be an issue.
The prediction was for wet, heavy snow more than deep snow, so we're probably looking at ice over packed snow for a while.
I slept another four hours this morning after Scott got up, and I'm still draggingly exhausted. I used the c-PAP the whole time. I didn't wake with a headache, at least.
My phone is showing further signs of dying. It now doesn't want to download my Gmail even when I have wifi. Doing Ingress even with wifi now effectively impossible. Gdocs and Chrome were still okay the last I checked, but I rather expect that Gdocs will go soon and that Chrome will start to choke on things like podcasts and video. The only thing I can find that's obviously wrong (apart from things not working) is that the time according to the phone is consistently off from every other device in the household even though all three of our phones are supposed to be getting the time from the same network. It's only about 30 seconds difference, but I suspect that it's a sign of other things not working.
I wonder if that 30 second difference is enough to make Ingress not work? It's meant to be a real time game and what I can do relies on where I am at a particular time. I'm still getting accurate GPS coordinates, but maybe the time being wrong matters?
At any rate, Scott ordered me a used iPhone5S (should that 's' be capitalized? I don't care enough to look it up) last night. I'm not completely convinced that will be more than a stopgap on the way to something more expensive, but maybe that stopgap will give us time to save a little?
Sadly, I don't think that the new phone is likely to arrive soon enough to let me recharge the portal I've had for 100 days. I managed to get far enough into Ingress to be able to see the portal, but my efforts to recharge keep coming back as 'Action Failed.' I will try, once Scott is home, to pass the key to him, but I kind of suspect that I won't be able to drop it.