2010 is Over
Dec. 31st, 2010 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsMy flist is full of end of the year posts of all sorts. I wasn't even intending to make one. I actually had an idea for one about how to write a Christmas movie. Which I will probably never write.
Writing a wrap-up post or a 2011 resolutions post just seems like a lot of work right now. December kicked my butt. Who invented December anyway? I'm looking forward to November and December being over with, is mostly what I'm thinking about right now.
The area got its first big snowstorm, which reminded me that now I'll be walking in the street half the time. In the dark. In slippery conditions. And it might be snowing. Fortunately I mostly only have to do this near a stoplight, so cars are (half the time anyway) slowing down for it.
I have been ruminating a bit on life and 'career' and whatnot. But is an lj post the best place to typographically ruminate on it?
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yuki_onna's post on our generation and expectations, finances, etc, really bummed me out. And made me think. Maybe I'll write a post later about that.
But, again, too much effort. I've been watching pointless stuff on TV, because it's all pointless stuff for at least another week. I've been playing even more pointless Facebook games, because they give a sense of accomplishment. And I can do that while watching the pointless TV.
I have 40+ books checked out of the library.
Who'm I kidding? It's probably 50+.
Yet I keep buying more anyway. Hey, when you can't even ILL Larque on the Wing, then you just have to buy it, right?
I dunno. Any fellow geeks out there of my generation just want to pack in all in and move to a commune on an island somewhere? We'd have a T1 line, I guarantee you that. (Wait, I'm not showing my age by referring to T1 lines, am I? Are we all wireless now?)
Cracked my first DRM ebook last night. So at least I can say I did that in 2010.
(Adobe totally made me do it. I put the software on my new computer, thought my login was one thing. Realized too late that it was something else. I could change the computer to match my ereader, but I couldn't get the book to open, because it had already been authenticated to another user. So, well, I wasn't going to change my ereader and screw up all my other books! And I wasn't going to check the book back in and wait 5 months for it to be available again. So, yea, cracking it had to be done. And lest naming the exact title incriminate me too specifically, I will only say it involved vampires.)
To anyone out there who may poo-poo the above, the library collective already paid for the book. It was my right to borrow it for 2 weeks and read it. So that is what I'm doing. Reading it. Though I may take more than 2 weeks to do it now. Because, y'know.. the 50+ mentioned above.
Rambly post is rambly.
To sum up 2010: Fulltime jobs suck, especially when you're not paid what you're worth. But they're better than no money and no health insurance.
Writing a wrap-up post or a 2011 resolutions post just seems like a lot of work right now. December kicked my butt. Who invented December anyway? I'm looking forward to November and December being over with, is mostly what I'm thinking about right now.
The area got its first big snowstorm, which reminded me that now I'll be walking in the street half the time. In the dark. In slippery conditions. And it might be snowing. Fortunately I mostly only have to do this near a stoplight, so cars are (half the time anyway) slowing down for it.
I have been ruminating a bit on life and 'career' and whatnot. But is an lj post the best place to typographically ruminate on it?
yuki_onna's post on our generation and expectations, finances, etc, really bummed me out. And made me think. Maybe I'll write a post later about that.But, again, too much effort. I've been watching pointless stuff on TV, because it's all pointless stuff for at least another week. I've been playing even more pointless Facebook games, because they give a sense of accomplishment. And I can do that while watching the pointless TV.
I have 40+ books checked out of the library.
Who'm I kidding? It's probably 50+.
Yet I keep buying more anyway. Hey, when you can't even ILL Larque on the Wing, then you just have to buy it, right?
I dunno. Any fellow geeks out there of my generation just want to pack in all in and move to a commune on an island somewhere? We'd have a T1 line, I guarantee you that. (Wait, I'm not showing my age by referring to T1 lines, am I? Are we all wireless now?)
Cracked my first DRM ebook last night. So at least I can say I did that in 2010.
(Adobe totally made me do it. I put the software on my new computer, thought my login was one thing. Realized too late that it was something else. I could change the computer to match my ereader, but I couldn't get the book to open, because it had already been authenticated to another user. So, well, I wasn't going to change my ereader and screw up all my other books! And I wasn't going to check the book back in and wait 5 months for it to be available again. So, yea, cracking it had to be done. And lest naming the exact title incriminate me too specifically, I will only say it involved vampires.)
To anyone out there who may poo-poo the above, the library collective already paid for the book. It was my right to borrow it for 2 weeks and read it. So that is what I'm doing. Reading it. Though I may take more than 2 weeks to do it now. Because, y'know.. the 50+ mentioned above.
Rambly post is rambly.
To sum up 2010: Fulltime jobs suck, especially when you're not paid what you're worth. But they're better than no money and no health insurance.