Week is done

Sat, 25 Feb 2017 03:54:13 GMT

Somehow I managed to get to the end of today without doing any art. So much for that daily task (sorry, Habitica peeps).

What I did do was read the majority of and finish a library book (Dawn, Octavia Butler) that has to go back by Sunday because someone put in a request for it. Silly people demanding equal access to a public resource! Considering I've been reading It for the past month and only got about a third of the way through it so far, it's probably not a bad thing to have taken a break to zip through this one. It was definitely interesting even if there were hella consent issues on the part of the aliens. Every once in a while it's good to read some SF that tackles the question of relating/adapting to beings that exist in an entirely different mode from our own. This is one of the things I go to LeGuin novels for.

I'm actually writing this from my brand new (to me) laptop! My 5 year old netbook was getting reeeeally chuggy and it was becoming much more of an obstacle to getting things done than a tool. So we ordered a refurbished Acer laptop that is now probably going to be my main computer. I'm hoping I can get Photoshop to install properly...I spent much of the afternoon transferring all my files and getting the settings how I want, and Photoshop is the next and last big thing I'm tackling. Then I can connect it to my big monitor and have two screens and internet on my art computer! *yay*

It is Windows 10, though I've installed that Classic Shell and that helped a lot. I think I managed to go into the settings and turn off all the spying stuff Microsoft loads into it. This is my first SSD computer and I'm definitely liking the speed and oomph it has. It runs very quietly and cool so far; hopefully that will continue to be the case as I put it to more use. The keyboard feels good and it shouldn't take too long to get used to the little differences in size and positioning of keys between this and my netbook.

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Week is done