Desiderius Price

Go for the trifecta: Watch the Weather Channel while drinking a bottle of Coke with your name on it.

Harness its power somehow? Take over the world? Seems like a good time for a little sorcery. 

@Wilde_Guess  Yep, that’s why I’m debating now, before I post.  I’ll need to resolve this before I post either 7 or 8.  Yesterday, I had moved it to #7, however, based on tone it belongs in #8.  So, this morning, I moved it back.  After all, a cliffhanger is typically an incomplete scene.

True, that.  Also, the move can “require” another 4k of writing to more fully develop an idea.  That’s not a bad thing, but can confuse the reader if you do it after the chapter(s) were originally posted.

That was the #5 debacle, about 2.5k but same thing.  I try to adhere to the principle that a reader shouldn’t have to re-read an episode to understand things, though, of course, that can be unavoidable at times with a work-in-progress.  Thus, I basically want  to be confident in the episode/chapter before I post. 

Cross my fingers, I’ll get #8 drafted tonight.  (If so, I’d expect #7 to go up next weekend.)

“9/10 dentists recommend our toothpaste for Vagina Dentata. The last one is just rolling around screaming about his penis.”

Scary part is, I *did* read that as a headline yesterday, it mentioned the UK and things potentially rotting off.

We’re bringing back Wicker Man Wednesdays. 

Good.  I could be persuaded to stop off for some hotdogs and marshmallows! 

Waterproof lining. Desiderius price is just fine if a bit wet. 

Sounds like it’s passed, the wind’s calmed back down.  That’d be the biggest concern for me, trees falling, taking out power/internet.  (With a chance to the house, of course)

As a whole, my general area came out relatively unscathed.  (I also think it was technically downgraded to tropical-storm instead of hurricane by the time it passed.)

Still assessing it, got most non-essentials stripped out, trying to bring it back bit by bit.  If successful, great, if not, I’ll consider my options.

Phew!  Dodged a bullet.  After a disassembly/reassembly, it seems operational.

Hooray!

@CloverReef I think it was more of the latter… as to which one, I’m not saying!     I think the tags will give it away.

Gaah! I have to wait?! Waiting is a thing still?! I thought the internet eradicated that shit! 

Well, #14 has to be released, and that’s most likely in two weeks.  After that, episode #15 can be posted, I’m guessing three weeks, depends on how #16/#17 go.  And #15 is indeed short.  What I intended as an opening scene, I realized did justice to what I wanted to portray, anything else detracted, so it’ll be short.

I got about 1kwords today, but then ark survival….

Look at you Mr. Productive. That’s awesome. I think of gaming breaks as training coordination, map reading skills, and problem solving skills. Soooo it’s indirectly aiding your writing stuffs. 

lol.  No, it’s more of a distraction….  I’ll see if I can’t focus more on the writing for the next eight days.  I do want to make progress on this mini-arc of Jefferey episodes.

@Wilde_Guess  Yep, it happens  … it was funny enough to post 

Scootely dooteley doo waaaAAAAAAH! *slides into tree*

When the Ice Queen regrets having that King Prawn Bhuna and eight pints of spesh.

I hope it’s an awesome one! Dragons! 

It’s mild, just needed something to pull the characters out of what they were about to do (and would later regret if they had followed through).  It also helped me consolidate these two episodes together, it’s stronger by having done so.

No, not yet.

Just rabbis… 

Rabbis are more filling than anything I’d find in DC.

Happens all the time.

And It’d earn the story a minor1 tag (which, for the most part, isn’t the focus of the story).

How fun.

Honestly, if I thought it would do any good, I’d say to file daily complaints with FFN. Is it being reposted elsewhere? Perhaps you can file complaints with those sites as well.

A google search later, some of the ghost mirrors (mostly), thinking they’re redirects for … countries with more restrictive internet policies.  Plus a (small) blurb on one hacked website. 

But the aggravating part is simply that it drowns out the real readership numbers, because all I now see in the stats is bot after bot after bot slurping up 700k, no humans (about 300k of new material + 400k of the old yet-to-be-revised).   Until now, I had been trying to maintain  “explicit” vs “clean” versions, carefully marking up my story as I rewrite it (only way, TBH), close to a 3:1 word ratio; but if few to nobody is enjoying the clean, if they’re all enjoying the explicit, then it makes sense to not bother with the clean version given the extra hassle it takes.

Overall, this machine has been very stable, rock solid, to the point that I’d only have to reboot due to power outages (ie not on battery backup) or kernel/driver updates.  That’s why it was odd to be in a position to have to reboot daily/hourly when I was used to 60/90 days.  Fingers crossed the driver downgrade works, lets me defer pricey upgrades.

If your computer started acting up without you doing some other change to it first, I wouldn’t have my hopes raised too high.  And if the problem stuck around on your main computer after a card swap, especially if the removed card worked on your other machine (you never said,) then I would be looking at something on the main system board.

If you did a software patch or driver update to the O/S recently, rolling that back will hopefully roll the problem away.  Otherwise, hope for something “cheap and stupid,” like a memory module or different accessory card starting to go bad and impinging on system resources needed by the video card for the video to work correctly.

Good luck, whatever it turns out to be.

Luckily, it did start acting up after an update (which IIRC included video drivers).  As the notes mentioned g-sync, and my issues had sync issues in them when piped through my KVM, my shrewd guess is that it was a bad driver (or something not properly configured).  So, downgrading the drivers back to the old ones will likely fix it (at least for now).

It’s ready when it’s ready.  I’m looking forward to reading it whenever it shows up.

Part of the issue with this weekend is I installed a new game … onthe plus side, I beat it (on the easy setting).