it's like the eye of a duck

D. has made me a new computer. Or, at least, he has done a staggeringly good job of cobbling together what we have, fine tuning it carefully and setting it up immaculately - he can squeeze more power out of a motherboard than I thought possible! I'm not going at light speed, but I am going substantially faster than I was before - no more waiting on graphics to chew....

And Filezilla rocks my socks!

I have spent a regrettably large part of this holiday weekend doing web work - this grieves me, but the hours sitting at my desk managed to spawn 1) some pretty good fic, if I do say so myself, and 2) the urge to move around motivated me to clean up the kitchen and stovetop (Greased Lightning also rocks my socks) and even some of my sewing area - I can see part of my cutting table again (!). So all is not lost.

I also managed to steal some reading time for myself. I finished "The Night Watch" - EXCELLENT book - not as merry or sexy perhaps as Waters' previous books, but written so well that it practically breathes, leaving you wishing you were there, even if it's in the middle of London during the Blitz.

Also still reading (or rather, skimming - it's not exactly an action-packed thriller) Henry VIII's inventories. Despite the archaic spellings most of it makes sense, and there are little things that are somehow so human - in the middle of the section on jewels and plate there are listed the contents of a small coffer that contained hoods and medicines for Henry's hawks. Sure, he wasn't the one medicating them, but it's nice to know that someone cared enough to do that, even if it was just to keep the hawks in hunting condition.

I do have some vocabulary questions I might post later for the historians reading, if I can't find the answers on my own.

And because I can't leave y'all without a clicky thing, here it is courtesy betnoir: Serenity: The MST3K Version ("THE OPERATIVE: I’ve seen your war record.
TOM: It had a nice beat and you could dance to it.")