The Legion, otherwise known as Keeping the voices at bay....

16:35

Sooo...despite being awake for 36 hours or so, I'm good. Tired but good. Haven't felt this satisfied in the longest time. And get your minds out of the gutter people, that's not what I meant. After watching a few very boring hours of television last night, with one good hour of programing (a somewhat recent episode of Dark Angel that I had missed), I decided I may as well stay up as I had several things buzzing around in the horrifying pool of goo that might just be my brain.

And so I sat down, in a highly uncomfortable wooden chair I might add, and tried to get the thoughts buzzing around to stop long enough for me to capture them in wordpad. I have to say that when my mind gets going it's pretty hard to stop it. I was alternately playing some mindless little puzzle games and writing. Something I do quite frequently if no one's around to chat, which of course is often the case at 4am. And this is where the trouble started. Luckily I have this great feature on my wordpad that auto saves every 3 minutes. Thank the programmers for that one as my system decided that I was not being attentive enough to the game I was playing and the flash locked up. Which normally would not have been a problem, but I had just decided to close it out and hadn't noticed that it had locked up. So when I hit close, everything locked. Including my wordpad. EEK!

It was like someone had just decided to drive a nail through my skull. All of the sudden I feel like I complete and total idiot as I had just finished typing this great piece of imagry for the backdrop of the scene I was writing. A scene that I have been stuck on for months. And it had finally come together. And this happens. And I hadn't even thought to hit the save button for some time. Sometimes my luck sucks.

Hate it when things like this happen. My mind is itching to write, like a bitch in heat, it's the only thing really on my mind. Then this happens and the computer can't reboot fast enough. Here I've got my mind going in overdrive, and no outlet. So I'm pretty sure that somewhere between rebooting and finally re-opening the file, I lost a bit. But it still turned out pretty good. I swear I think I almost tied my fingers in knots I was typing so fast. And after that little fiasco I didn't have a single problem with the computer. Of course I didn't run any more flash games while I was writing. See, I do learn from my mistakes sometimes.

Other than being a little tired from the long night, I'm feeling quite satisfied with myself. I even treated myself to saturday morning cartoons. Something which I really missed while I was working. Almost always worked friday night so I usually slept in. And would you believe I actually cooked breakfast for Junior and Chris? Yup. I did. I made my famous french toast. This is an extreme rarity as I hate cooking french toast. Hell, I don't even usually eat it myself, prefering scrambled eggs. Though I actually haven't eaten at all today. An oversite I'm soon to rememdy as my stomach is making more noise than most diesel trucks do.

"Damn computer!! It ate everything. Big, fat, smug, damn stupid piece of crappy crap!" - from the tv show Daria