On a roll

[gwyn]

Today turned out to be a surprisingly productive day, all things considered. I didn't think it was going to turn out well when I went to the pharmacy to renew my prescriptions and they told me that I was no longer insured, even though I paid the astronomical premiums for COBRA coverage so I wouldn't run into the dreaded pre-existing conditions crap if I get re-employed. So I wasted entirely too much energy being upset that I'd had to pay another $100+ for medicine that should be covered by the gajillion dollars I just paid to the (*%#@* benefits company. Then I decided since I couldn't do anything about it till Monday (as if I didn't have enough to stress over, when I have that test for Dream Freelance Job on Monday morning), I'd tackle the housework, and got a lot done there (though, feochadn, the lawn mower wouldn't stay running after about ten starts, and I finally gave up and put it back).

Then, miracle of miracles, I wrote. Actual writing. Not writing exercise writing, or creative non-fiction or journalistic writing, and most decidedly not fanfic. An actual short (very short!) story, that I didn't abandon after a few paragraphs because it sucks, or because I think I'm crap. I actually wrote the whole thing down, and touched it up a bit, and put it away for a while. It's terrible and needs a lot of work, but I got the bones down, as they say. It couldn't be less interesting nor more poseurish (can you get any more twee than writing in a second person narrative voice? I ask you), but I wrote a whole honest to god short story for the first time in I don't know how many years, without letting my inner devil beat me down.

And then I poked around on Dream Freelance Job's website, cooked a real dinner, played with Photoshop Elements some more (not that I am making any progress in how to use it, but I can pretend), tried to figure out how to network the laptop and the iMac together unsuccessfully, and then... finished my Firefly vid. Which is total crap, but at least I have a finished draft. In my head it was a gorgeous vid, very sad and beautiful. Somehow translating what was in my head to reality was a harder row to hoe this time. I need to get a plugin for better slo-mo, but the mechanical part is finished, anyway. Why do I always finish vids when there's no one around for days and days to give me a beta? Curse my strange circadian rhythm and hermit-like lifestyle!

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[barkley.livejournal.com]

tried to figure out how to network the laptop and the iMac together unsuccessfully

Are they both Macs, and do they both have firewire?

If so, run a firewire cable from one to the other. Shut down the one you want as the "other" computer. Then, when you boot it up, hold down the "T" key. It will mount as an extra harddrive onto your main computer and it should put a harddrive icon onto your desktop and you should be able to click and go from there.

If not, and they are still both Macs, and they both have an ethernet card, then run an ethernet cable from one to the other (this might need to be a crossover cable instead of a regular ethernet cable...I just did it at my brothers's last week, but they have a hub that I connected through...) and then go to system preferences, click on the network button, click on Appletalk, click on "make appletalk active." You should be able to see the other computer when you go to Finder and on the menu choose "Go" and then choose "Connect to server."

If they're not both macs then I'm not quite sure what will work. *g*