reddragdiva | We will eat out of their pantries and their parlours.

I need one of these. (Unfortunately, they don't do a version the other way round. Yet.)
Did anyone see crate man?

It's been a remarkably productive couple of days' sitting on my arse at home. I had two phone interviews that went well and should lead to face-to-face interviews next week. (I may be employable. OH NOES!) I took apart my camera in the hope of removing the infrared filter; this is likely unfeasible, but I did discover the screen is remarkably easy to replace, so all I need is a matching dead one. I got Windows 98 working in VMware on tart, my Linux laptop. (The Windows box is, of course, called paris.) I recorded a story for UnNews, for which I installed Audacity, which is just unbelievably cool even if it does still use OSS. I also got recordings from two others (and am waiting on a third, if I don't just give up and record it with Festival). I am even seeing if the poor technophobe humorists can get bloody Theora to work, even though Theora makes Ogg Vorbis look popular. I won a power lead, an MP3 player and a dongle-free Ethernet PC card on eBay, though I failed to gather a camera or a replacement laptop motherboard (bastard pulled the auction with 11 minutes to go). It's pretty good.

redcountess is doing actual creative things: crocheting dolly clothes. A small start on flexing the creative muscles, but hell, anything beats three years of television and LiveJournal.