Getting On With Life

[mmerriam]

So my side lost on Tuesday. Well, what's left to do except pick up and go on? I don't like the direction the country is heading, but all I can do is run or fight. I chose fight. I guess I could also stick my head in the sand, but all that would accomplish is me being eaten by the lions without my seeing them coming. The lions might eat me yet, but they're going to have to do it the old fashion way. They'll have to hunt me down, wrestle me to the ground, and look me in the eyes as they start chewing on me. So, I'll go sit over here and lick my wounds until the next battle needs fighting.

Maybe I should run for public office. My entire platform could be "I need a job. Vote Merriam."


State Services for the Blind brought out a new computer system to assist me in my return to college. I pointed out that I wouldn't be returning until next fall, but they said that was fine, I could use it for my writing. careswen said it seems a bit decadent to have two almost new systems in the house. The new system SSB is loaning me is configured with a laptop and docking port so that I can use the laptop at school, then come home and plug it into the dock to use as a desktop. All the peripherals are USB, so the dock plugs into a USB hub. Just drop the laptop on the dock and bingo. They also set me up with both Magic and JAWS for windows, which should increase the time I can stand to look at a screen with these weak eyes, as well as kersweil scanner software.

This might be the last post I write on my trusty old IBM Thinkpad 760XD. It is the end of an era.


Novel progress slowed to a crawl Wednesday and Thursday, but that's okay. I'm going over my outline again, making sure I've properly connected the dots I feel must be connected so far. Yeah, the story had already veered off the outline a lot, hence the new outline. I'd rather do the work on the front end of the process than on the back end. The more I get right now, the less I re-write later.

That’s all for now.

Hugs and Noodles

Michael

Comments

[boy-pastiche.livejournal.com]

*hugs* so what will you do with the Thinkpad?

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I plan to hang on to the old girl for the time being. For one thing, I'm silly sentimental about it, she's done me well. Plus, well the system SSB brought out is nice it isn't mine. It would be just my luck that I would donate the old ThinkPad, or give it to a friend, just to have the State come and take away the system they loaned me for some inexplicable reason. I simply don't trust government agencies. Plus, the old girl can run some old DOS based programs that the new NT based laptop won't.

[boy-pastiche.livejournal.com]

True.