Saturday, December 15, 2007
Relaxing is a State of Mind
Today is my mother's 80th birthday. Despite some forbidding omens, a wonderful time was had by all. All her children and grandchildren were there along with the spouses. Good friends came and we sat around and talked and told stories and ate good food. Every now and then I'd think
Oh, geez, I need to get some work done... and then I'd remember that I didn't, and I'd relax. It was nice. And, everyone brought presents for her that were perfect and appreciated by all. Very nice.
Today I finished reading Jodi Picault's
Plain Truth which was pretty good. Next is Elizabeth George's
What happened After He Shot her but I'm itching for a really good romance. I have Brockmann's recent novella, maybe I'll pick that up first.
Adjustment to the Mac world continues. I had to find an html editor that works. My first choice, Amaya, was quickly abandoned because I couldn't figure out how to make it reveal source code. The help file didn't make sense:
Check the line at the bottom but the only thing I could find was a toggle between text and XML neither of which showed me anything but the graphic view and I need to chop up the pages for the server side includes. So, forget that. I downloaded a trial of BBedit and got it to show me source code no problem (once I remembered where to look -- I'm still getting used to the Mac interface). I looked around a little for Word for the Mac. Ouch. Not cheap. But I have to have a professional word processor.
Tomorrow I have to do some Christmas Shopping. We don't have a tree up yet so it doesn't feel real. But shopping time is running out. Mostly stuff for the kids, of course. I've been saving all year and have about $700 to spend because every pay day I take all the cash out of my wallet and put it away for Christmas. It adds up.
Last night I dreamed about Xia. My bad boy for the next book. And while I was reading
Plain Truth I had some flashes about interesting psychological states for my hero and heroine. I already knew that he hasn't had sex for a really long time -- not intercourse that he wanted to have. I may start working on Xia just because the ideas are there insistently burbling.
Labels: relaxing, Xia
