More minutia
Feb. 10th, 2004 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsKouryou-chan has bronchitis. It apparently follows hard on of her flu, which saw her temperature spike to 102.4 last night before starting to come down. This really sucks because it means she won't be going to school anytime soon, and Omaha and I were hoping to get a lot of tasks done this week that simply aren't gonna happen.
Kouryou-chan spent a good hour curled up in my lap after I got home, and I hand-fed her toast strips while she cuddled in arms and complained about how awful she felt. That was at the height of her fever. An hour later she was feeling better, so Omaha and I played two rounds of Old Maid and one of Go Fish with her. Old Maid was better because it demonstrates the form of a card game but the outcome is wholly random, which is what Kouryou-chan needs at four. I could always tell when she got the Old Maid, because she would sigh so dramatically.
The card set was from Cardinal, and we probably won't be buying from them again. They came in a set of four (Old Maid, Go Fish, War, and Crazy Eights), and they were terribly packaged. The rules for Old Maid were written by B1FF, they were so grammatically horrible. And I can't tell you how bad the grammar and punctuation was for Go Fish because the only rule card included was in French!
By bedtime, she was energetic and didn't want to go to sleep, although she crashed hard once she was in bed. I read Dumbo and Peter Pan to her again.
After she was in bed, I did get my Lain (the laptop) and Brain (the handheld) to chatting, and I can now reliably transfer things back and forth between the two. Only the address book, the to-do list, and the schedule sync up with laptop-ready tools; for the rest, the laptop only provides a back-up, but I'm hoping to be able to whip something up for my outliner tool, Brainforest, and get access to the memo pads. I did figure out this morning how to transfer e-books to the handheld, so now I need never be without reading material. Geeky goodness!
And I wrote 1200 words yesterday in an Aimee' story I've been meaning to write for a long time. That number surprised me because I felt like I was slogging very slowly through the story. One thing I've learned to do is keep two emacs windows open on X, one behind the other, so as I'm writing if I hit a spot where I need to take a note I just Alt-Tab to the other page, write the note, then Alt-Tab back and resume. This makes keeping track of ideas, "why she said that," and guns on the mantlepiece (Chekov's rule of drama: If there is a gun on the mantlepiece in act 1, it had better be fired by act 5) much easier.
Kouryou-chan spent a good hour curled up in my lap after I got home, and I hand-fed her toast strips while she cuddled in arms and complained about how awful she felt. That was at the height of her fever. An hour later she was feeling better, so Omaha and I played two rounds of Old Maid and one of Go Fish with her. Old Maid was better because it demonstrates the form of a card game but the outcome is wholly random, which is what Kouryou-chan needs at four. I could always tell when she got the Old Maid, because she would sigh so dramatically.
The card set was from Cardinal, and we probably won't be buying from them again. They came in a set of four (Old Maid, Go Fish, War, and Crazy Eights), and they were terribly packaged. The rules for Old Maid were written by B1FF, they were so grammatically horrible. And I can't tell you how bad the grammar and punctuation was for Go Fish because the only rule card included was in French!
By bedtime, she was energetic and didn't want to go to sleep, although she crashed hard once she was in bed. I read Dumbo and Peter Pan to her again.
After she was in bed, I did get my Lain (the laptop) and Brain (the handheld) to chatting, and I can now reliably transfer things back and forth between the two. Only the address book, the to-do list, and the schedule sync up with laptop-ready tools; for the rest, the laptop only provides a back-up, but I'm hoping to be able to whip something up for my outliner tool, Brainforest, and get access to the memo pads. I did figure out this morning how to transfer e-books to the handheld, so now I need never be without reading material. Geeky goodness!
And I wrote 1200 words yesterday in an Aimee' story I've been meaning to write for a long time. That number surprised me because I felt like I was slogging very slowly through the story. One thing I've learned to do is keep two emacs windows open on X, one behind the other, so as I'm writing if I hit a spot where I need to take a note I just Alt-Tab to the other page, write the note, then Alt-Tab back and resume. This makes keeping track of ideas, "why she said that," and guns on the mantlepiece (Chekov's rule of drama: If there is a gun on the mantlepiece in act 1, it had better be fired by act 5) much easier.
