I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to find a balance (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to build a balance) when it comes to my writing software. OmmWriter has been the one for quite a while, but it has some warts. No spell-check, which is bearable as WordPress catches that anyway. But the bigger thing is that it will slow down the system, and if you decide to go edit something at the top of a big paragraph, it runs like molasses, just trying to figure out the word wrap. I mean, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I can write a better program or anything. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s distracting, and that runs counter to what a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153distraction-free workspace\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is after.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kind of funny that we take things for granted with programs, like word wrap not slowing the system down. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in a different piece of software now called FocusWriter, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also had WriteMonkey recommended to me. FocusWriter seems to hit the basics. Full screen, check. Spell check…check. Adjustable fonts\/sizes\/backgrounds, check. Adjustable margins, check. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. I bring my own music anyway, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m working on a writing playlist that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll put on Spotify when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finished. I add to it a train ride at a time. Right now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m listening to what I still consider my favorite album, full stop. That would be This Binary Universe<\/em> by BT.<\/p>\n Small aside for one of the bigger little regrets of my life. When the aforementioned album came out, I was a freshman at Louisville. Louisville football had managed to play their way to the Orange Bowl at Joe Robbie Stadium (I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember or care what it was called that year, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Joe Robbie) in Miami. So Dad and I have a little road trip to go see old friends and catch the game. While I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m down there, I find out BT is having a black-tie release party for This Binary Universe<\/em>, on New Years Eve, 2006 if I recall correctly, also in Miami. I want to say it was like $250 a head and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d screen the film that went with the album, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get to meet BT who I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been following since \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc98 or \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc99. You can do the math there easily enough, I was into his stuff from a very young age.<\/p>\n I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go. I really should\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve fucking gone. This is a timeless album and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll never be another party for it like there was that night. Dang.<\/p>\n Since my post last week, where I was brimming with optimism about this new house, I feel I should mention that less than 10 minutes after publishing that post, I found out the house already went under contract to some other fucking guy. And since we backed out of the deal for the other house, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re back to square one. It hit Diana pretty hard, she fell for the place quick. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m bummed it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gone but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m seeing more houses come up for less money as we get into spring. Gotta stay upbeat.<\/p>\n I got back the results from my CT scan over the weekend. I talk to the doc about it tomorrow. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to involve having to convince the guy that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not an alcoholic, just overweight, because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re seeing fatty deposits in my liver. Not what I went in for, in fact they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any leads on what the actual problem I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m complaining about is from an imaging standpoint.<\/p>\n I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t decided if the reason I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m as calm as I am about needing to lose nearly 40 pounds is because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a mature, stoic person or because I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fully grasped how much fucking work it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be. Probably the latter, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have a basis for comparison. I could to some math. 4 pounds of fat is around 14,000 calories, so 40 pounds is a net calorie deficit of 140,000 calories. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m pretty sure the equivalent diet is like three months with no food, or six months at 800 calories. I know that ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happening, so the exercise is going to have to come way, way up. My mind is surprisingly clear on this. Normally it puts up a fight when we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about a shitload of labor, not because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scared of the work, but because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m afraid I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna injure myself in some way. I could fucking injure myself eating toast or writing this blog. That part of me is full of shit and more than a little bit of a hypochondriac. You eat too many burritos and cake, shit happens.<\/p>\n Now, if I was presented with a button, where if I press it someone I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never met or known will die and I could eat like teenage me…nah, I probably wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d think about it! Baby back ribs are just the best, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to find a balance (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to build a balance) when it comes to my writing software. OmmWriter has been the one for quite a while, but it has some warts. 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