Friday, August 17th
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alexandraerinThe Daily Report
After some issues with Google Drive's local sync folder program, I'm investigating Dropbox... this is the sort of thing it probably would have been useful for me to get into a long time ago, but it took Google telling me, "Hey, we have this thing you might like..." to get me to think about it. Ultimately I don't think Google's version is quite "there" (see previous post) but I like the idea. Dropbox seems to be the big name, the Kleenex or Xerox of the concept, so I'm starting with them, but if anybody has any success/horror stories about any cloud storage solution please feel free to share.
To be very specific, I'm not looking for storage space (when text is your medium, you don't need gigs out the Yahoo) but convenience, specifically the convenience of having a local working drive that syncs between multiple computers.
But that's enough about that.
Some fairly exciting internal developments are... developing. As dissatisfied as I am with Google Drive's sync program, I am still loving the in-browser word processor's offline capabilities. I've only been doing it for part of this week so I'm resisting the urge to make plans/predictions about where it's going to take me, but for now I'll just say: things are trending upwards.
And as rocky as my experience with the local version of Drive has been, it hasn't been fruitless... I'm much closer on some of my goals because of it. Hopefully Dropbox will help me get the rest of the way there.
The State of the Me
Weather continues to be fairly nice. We seem to be well and truly done with the 100+ degree weather. I'm doing my sleeping in shifts most nights, crashing hard sometime between 9 and 11 at night and sleeping for three or four hours then waking up for a few hours and then sleeping for four or five more. Other than my nights ending rather abruptly I'm not seeing any ill effects... the conventional wisdom of "eight hours of sleep" ideally being an uninterrupted block are actually a result of social evolution rather than biological, so if this is how my body wants to be for the time being I'm going to let it.
Plans For Today
Having to remind myself that it's day 3 of the chapter cycle on Tales of MU, since I just posted something yesterday. I have more OT stories on tap and I've got a development cycle for them that I think makes sense. When I first started the 4 day cycle for main MU I was trying to fit in a floating weekly cycle alongside it and it just didn't work. What I'm doing now is a kind of inversion of the main MU schedule. On the days I'm writing the bulk of and the chapter (like today), I'll get a start on the OT when I need a break. On the days that are fairly slack on the main chapter cycle, I'll write the bulk of the OT. This is not going to be anything like perfectly sustainable because the main chapter has to take precedence, but it only has to work out half the time for me to have an OT after every other MU chapter.
So I've got 1,500 words of MU chapter to write today and 500 words of the next OT, and I'll be crossing one of my goals off for the first half off August.
After some issues with Google Drive's local sync folder program, I'm investigating Dropbox... this is the sort of thing it probably would have been useful for me to get into a long time ago, but it took Google telling me, "Hey, we have this thing you might like..." to get me to think about it. Ultimately I don't think Google's version is quite "there" (see previous post) but I like the idea. Dropbox seems to be the big name, the Kleenex or Xerox of the concept, so I'm starting with them, but if anybody has any success/horror stories about any cloud storage solution please feel free to share.
To be very specific, I'm not looking for storage space (when text is your medium, you don't need gigs out the Yahoo) but convenience, specifically the convenience of having a local working drive that syncs between multiple computers.
But that's enough about that.
Some fairly exciting internal developments are... developing. As dissatisfied as I am with Google Drive's sync program, I am still loving the in-browser word processor's offline capabilities. I've only been doing it for part of this week so I'm resisting the urge to make plans/predictions about where it's going to take me, but for now I'll just say: things are trending upwards.
And as rocky as my experience with the local version of Drive has been, it hasn't been fruitless... I'm much closer on some of my goals because of it. Hopefully Dropbox will help me get the rest of the way there.
The State of the Me
Weather continues to be fairly nice. We seem to be well and truly done with the 100+ degree weather. I'm doing my sleeping in shifts most nights, crashing hard sometime between 9 and 11 at night and sleeping for three or four hours then waking up for a few hours and then sleeping for four or five more. Other than my nights ending rather abruptly I'm not seeing any ill effects... the conventional wisdom of "eight hours of sleep" ideally being an uninterrupted block are actually a result of social evolution rather than biological, so if this is how my body wants to be for the time being I'm going to let it.
Plans For Today
Having to remind myself that it's day 3 of the chapter cycle on Tales of MU, since I just posted something yesterday. I have more OT stories on tap and I've got a development cycle for them that I think makes sense. When I first started the 4 day cycle for main MU I was trying to fit in a floating weekly cycle alongside it and it just didn't work. What I'm doing now is a kind of inversion of the main MU schedule. On the days I'm writing the bulk of and the chapter (like today), I'll get a start on the OT when I need a break. On the days that are fairly slack on the main chapter cycle, I'll write the bulk of the OT. This is not going to be anything like perfectly sustainable because the main chapter has to take precedence, but it only has to work out half the time for me to have an OT after every other MU chapter.
So I've got 1,500 words of MU chapter to write today and 500 words of the next OT, and I'll be crossing one of my goals off for the first half off August.