Birthday Party - The Second Coming

[wiseheart]

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Pens definitely. I also tend to lose remote controls, books, important pieces of paper... And Mr EA is forever dropping coins down the back of the sofa.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Remote and books, I usually end up actually looking for sooner - but so many pieces of paper, and by the time I find them I can't remember why they were important...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I have this awful tendency to lose notes for stories, which are greeted with cries of joy if they turn up. Unpaid bills, not so much :(

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I've taken to keeping story notes on the computer - then I lose then less (except when the computer crashes) and don't have to be able to read my own writing.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Very wise! Particularly if you take back-ups. What almost invariably happens to me is that I write a first plot outline, then print it out and scribble on it, a lot, and only very rarely do I get back to changing the original file. I keep on trying to change this habit, but never succeeding -- I took to typing late (early 20s) and I think my brain is still more creative when faced with paper & pen. The thing I really need to learn to do is stop using a red pen, as it disappears in sunlight!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

At the moment most of it is on gdocs - which is fine until the internet is down and I want to work on things. I keep meaning to start using dropbox (even have an account), but I want to more the files there during the unmetered internet time and I never seem to get that far...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

You're technologically way ahead of me. And way more organised. I never even manage to move the files I share between laptop & desktop to the file server!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

I started using gdocs for Yuletide a couple of years back because I was terrified of my computer crashing and just kept on - although then they changed the interface to make it much less user friendly.... :)

I have too many old computer hard drives sitting around waiting for data to be retrieved, but somehow it never gets to the top of my to do list...

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

This conversation inspired me to get started on using Dropbox properly - copied my photos over to it and it has now spent several hours syncing them from one computer to the other! ;)
Hopefully it will be faster when I am only syncing working files!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

That sounds very useful!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

About a year ago I started assigning different notebooks (the paper kind) to different fandoms, where I keep my story ideas and fragments collected and ordered. They also have their special place in the book-case - sometimes I even remember which is which. *g*

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very organised! :)