Today a general roundup of what I’ve done lately:
Read The Plague by Albert Camus.
Excellent, of course. Perhaps less philosophical than The Stranger, (an arguable critique) but a much softer read. I don’t know how much of the work was fictional and how much was based on Camus’ actual experience with a plague-stricken town in North Africa, but it came together very much as a genuine account. There a certain subtlety to his writing, a sort of silk-thread irony, that I suppose is very french, but either way I wish I could incorporate into my own writing.
Virtualized a file server at work.
I took an existing freebsd fileserver and moved it onto a virtualized Centos 5.3 server. I’ve also begun in earnest my project to push Linux OPAC machines to outside libraries. We have the first machines installed and an overall guide created. We’re just waiting on requests for OPAC’s at the moment.
Finished the Spot Edit for my Story.
I started with 100 items, some very small, others rather expansive, that needed to be fixed or tweaked in my novel. This week I managed to tackle the last of them. For the next month I’ll be doing general read-throughs. At the end of the year I’ll decide what, if anything, I want to do with it, but I’m still somewhat happy with the work overall. It is a huge improvement on my last attempt at this although the tone and voice still tweak my ear more than I should like. I’ve got a few more stories planned for next year so I’m eager to get onto those either way.
Pre-Ordered Dragon Age: Orgins
That should be coming next week I think. I still miss Baldur’s Gate more than it’s respectable to admit.
Started Watching Season 4 of Venture Brother’s
My favorite Adult Swim show is onto Season 4. I usually miss the television episodes (Sunday at midnight), but they put them online on Monday. Best stuff ever.
