From the point of view of Paksworld, the trip produced some interesting pages, and once I’ve pulled them off the thumb drive and entered them into the main file, I’ll have an idea how much I accomplished.\u00a0 Word 2010, which is on the netbook, is even more annoying than the version of Word on my main work computer, so I will have to undo a lot of unwanted formatting and use the magic four-letter Words of Word-Doom a lot to get it straightened out.<\/p>\n
The first day on the train I didn’t even try to write, just knitted and soaked up scenery and being away from phones & email.\u00a0 The second day produced some ideas and finally (in the evening, on the next train) some actual pages.\u00a0 Third day, truly gorgeous scenery so not as many pages–and then I was at the convention by day’s end.\u00a0 But did a little every day, and more on the way home.<\/p>\n
I am nursing a very unhappy knee, which restricts how long and in what positions I can sit, so progress may be slow for the next few days.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll be doing some walking therapy for it.\u00a0 (Slow walking, with attention to how I place my foot, and on nearly level ground, is good for this knee.\u00a0\u00a0 We have a long history together.)<\/p>\n
Knitting made significant progress on the trip, until the evening on the train, when I pulled out the larger project to work on and the tip on the end of the needle came off, spilling stitches.\u00a0 This was not at the end of a row.\u00a0 In trying to get it out far enough to see the loose stitches and retrieve them,\u00a0 I lost more stitches, and then spent a considerable time putting the stitches I could “catch” onto spare needles (they weren’t all at the same level) and finally running a length of spare yarn (purple.\u00a0 Someone on this group knows exactly what purple yarn!) through all the gaps so it wouldn’t run farther.)\u00a0\u00a0 Then I started trying to rebuild it, but the train was lurching enough that I decided to leave it until I was home and rested.\u00a0 Very annoying; I’d made a lot of progress on it.\u00a0 I switched to the\u00a0 small project (so useful for working on in a small space or with little time) and it’s now over two feet long.<\/p>\n
Laundry’s in progress at the moment, and I’m about to do a therapeutic short walk for the knee’s sake.<\/p>\n
Oh–I don’t think I’d mentioned that a French publisher has bought the first three Paks books.\u00a0 That’s definitely in the “good news” category\u00a0 (and proof of my scatterbrained condition…)\u00a0\u00a0 Mac horse is fine–no more problems with him.\u00a0 Cloud Pavilion, the new rain-barn, has all its trusses up for the roof.\u00a0\u00a0 Husband’s helper, J-, cut his finger opening a box of screws or bolts (I wasn’t there) and bled a lot but is OK.\u00a0 One of those stupid plastic box things (in my day, she quavers, you bought nails and bolts out of open bins in the hardware store.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, dear, I tell my oldest self, but it’s not your day anymore.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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