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dancing_crow) wrote2010-01-27 09:03 pm
dancing_crow) wrote2010-01-27 09:03 pm
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as I said in an email to a friend,
The latest is that I can make it look right, a page at a time, and save those pages to PDF files, which then print. Since there are only 5 of those, it isn't so bad. I still need to beat it, or beat my head upon it, to get the thing to print all the records in a seamless fashion, but some of the stress is relieved having the PDF files for a back-up plan.
In other news, I was reading The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, and I couldn't figure out why it felt so familiar, when I realized it had a structure and rhythm very similar to Pamela Dean's Dubious Hills, a book that consists of Arry (mostly) walking up and down the hill, and running errands and living her normal life at the same time that every part of her normal life is changing. Dazzle of Day has several characters walking around and around the generation ship they are in, and living their normal life, at the moment they are deciding what to do about living on the planet they have arrived at, and their normal life is completely changing, out from under them. I loved the balance of the book, between Quakers In Space, and the tech they could maintain and support, and the feelings they were having about the change in their lives.
I had long, detailed dreams last night of walking with people, living their lives, while their lives were changing.
I am definitely having some Zeno's Paradox, with frustration sauce. I keep thinking I have it 99% there, and I get one last step, and I am STILL!! 99% there. ... The frustration with not being able to just ram the sucker down the wires is HUGE.
The latest is that I can make it look right, a page at a time, and save those pages to PDF files, which then print. Since there are only 5 of those, it isn't so bad. I still need to beat it, or beat my head upon it, to get the thing to print all the records in a seamless fashion, but some of the stress is relieved having the PDF files for a back-up plan.
In other news, I was reading The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss, and I couldn't figure out why it felt so familiar, when I realized it had a structure and rhythm very similar to Pamela Dean's Dubious Hills, a book that consists of Arry (mostly) walking up and down the hill, and running errands and living her normal life at the same time that every part of her normal life is changing. Dazzle of Day has several characters walking around and around the generation ship they are in, and living their normal life, at the moment they are deciding what to do about living on the planet they have arrived at, and their normal life is completely changing, out from under them. I loved the balance of the book, between Quakers In Space, and the tech they could maintain and support, and the feelings they were having about the change in their lives.
I had long, detailed dreams last night of walking with people, living their lives, while their lives were changing.