Writing
Woah, man... You know, this is what happens when you can't write for a long time. You open up a project and start looking at the background documents. (you know, character profiles, worldbuilding stuff, notes, outlines...) Suddenly realise, that there is a fair amount of stuff you didn't actually put down in the notes, that you now only half remember because it's been too long since you worked on this project.
Gaia's Song, I discovered is missing the character profile for Nanashi Sou. This is someone who is a core character, and pretty important to the story. I have a few references to him in other documents, and in some of the outlines and timelines. He's mentioned in the profile of a character that he is related to, but nothing of any significance. He's just listed as a sibling. There is no actual profile with his pre story history and background. What this is going to mean is that he's going to have to have a background as I remember it. I'm usually better about having profiles for everyone... Like real serious in depth profiles for the core character group and breif blurbs of information about the minor characters that are more than just an extra. I didn't make a profile for the tailor for example, but Tabithe Moriatry (Dyana's mother) has at least a brief profile because Dyana is still a minor at the beginning of the story, and she lives with her mother.
I'm also discovering that I can't see the computer as well as I'd like. I'm going to have to go and get a new prescription for computer use, as my current glasses progressive lense is apparently not progressive enough. I can take them off, but then I want my face too close to the computer screen to be sitting comfortably in my little pink chair. Lol. The screen is too bright and glary too. I was told at my last visit that I didn't have cataracts, but I'm starting to disbelive that. The problems I have with glare are generally indicative of cataracts as well as some other other issues that I've been having the last couple of years. if I could afford to pay for it, I'd just as soon have the cataracts out and get nice seven layer multifocal lenses installed in my new cyborg eyes... I'm guessing my insurance isn't going to cover that though. Wonder if I could buy just optical insurance through work and still keep my regular medical insurance through the expansion.... Hmmm....
Anyway, that's my update. I'm off to try to write Nanashi Sou's profile pretty much out of thin air. Lol.
Oh yeah.. My new Logitech Marble Mouse (it's a trackball. Lol... not a mouse... It used to be called the Marble Mouse, now I think it's called the Trackman Marble) came in today so FREAKING YAY! I don't have to try to work with this crappy Kensington mouse. I though it would be similar enough to let me switch to a wireless trackball, but while it has a central ball and can be used with either hand, it's way shorter, and leaves nothing for me to rest the base of my hand on while I'm tracking. If my fingers are on the trackball, the last point of contact I have to support my hand is the metacarpophalangeal knuckle. Only someone with a tiny hand (Trump? Lol) would be able to use that thing comfortably. It's nice having it be wireless, but damn... who designed this crappy shape? I tried for a year to get used to it. I gave it the old college try, but no. It's awful and I hate it. So I'm back to a wired trackball, but at least it's comfortable in my hand.