Laptop!

[layla]

I have a shiny new laptop! *pets it* It's a MacBook, named (wait for it...) Fleetwood MacBook. (Hey, I haven't named one of my computer accounts with anything other than my own name in a decade. It was time for a bit of flippancy.) It's so small and shiny! I was worried about the 13-inch screen, but so far it's not bothering me at all. It probably won't be my main working machine, but now I have it for traveling and for working away from the main desktop unit on which I'm currently typing this blog post. I feel so very extravagant.

I spent tonight doing some work on the Kismet archives. I had originally divided the Kismet short stories into three different series: "Long Road Home" was for Tertia stuff, "Reckless in Thermopylae" was the Anubians and Fleetwood's life, and "Kismet City Limits" was for the stories specifically taking place in Kismet. Not very user-friendly, though, and a pain in the ass figuring out where to put each story in my fairly extensive library of not-yet-written stories. So now the first two series have been deleted, and the stories they contained (nothing new since 2005, don't worry about missing anything) have all been consolidated into Kismet City Limits. I plan to begin twice-weekly KCL updates on Dec. 1, and keep at it until I work through my backlog of unfinished/unwritten short comics. :> (Six pages done so far! Whee!) Updates will be posted at icefallpress, as with Freebird.

Under the cut -- a single page from the first short comic on the roster. Dialogue removed to avoid too many spoilers. I am FAR too amused at 5-year-old Fleetwood (that's who the curly-haired kid is) and how he's just like adult Fleetwood only ... less verbal, and even more hyper.

Comments

[pamola.livejournal.com]

I would think that Fleetwood would have learned to untie all the knots by age 5. But Hurrah for short stories.

On computer names, I can remember setting up an office network for a Child Advocacy group in the county. I named their network 100acrewood. The assistant who was helping me promptly decided that the director needed to have the computer Eeyore (while he got the computer Piglet). The director's husband who was helping us pull cables was highly amused.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

I think he's too hyper to even try. Besides, it's funnier that way. *g*

Our IT guy at work is a huge Star Wars fan, so the network servers are named in that general theme. The two main servers are Naboo and Corruscant.

[vogelein.livejournal.com]

Tee hee. I loves me some Fleetwood, regardless of age.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. :D

[acoustic-rob.livejournal.com]

Ah, computer domain names. The best I've done is to name two hard drive partitions (Remember when you had to partition your hard drives because the OS couldn't handle a drive larger than 32 meg? Good times....) "Spithead" and "Pinhead". Lotus and Wordstar got installed on Spithead, and the games went on Pinhead.

And hey, more Kismet! Yay! Fleetwood with even less impulse control than normal? I'm there.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Partioning. I remember that. I don't miss it, but I remember it!

I'm so jazzed to be working on Kismet again, and actually finishing things, rather than beating my head against the next GN. Apparently, I am a creature of instant gratification.

[24thecomicstrip.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! I love the name. I named mine "Atticus", and my iPhone "Scout", since she gets all her core knowledge from "dad". ^_^

I can't believe I hadn't subscribed to the group until now. Regardless, I've added it. ^^

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Literary geekitude FTW! \o/

I rarely name anything -- vehicles, computers, animals -- unless the right name jumps out at me. Our cat was nameless for several weeks until the right name occurred; I think the dog was four or five months old before he got his permanent name. Pity our children if we ever have any. But Fleetwood MacBook just felt "right".

[24thecomicstrip.livejournal.com]

And ultimately a brilliant name. ^_^