So normally I put the long text here, and the pretty pictures there. But today's entry got me to wax loqacious about the rituals I use to summon my caffeine gods (apparently it didn't ALL get posted there. Yeesh!) Anyway, it had the talky-talk, so I thought I'd cross-link. Mission Accomplished! (and me without my interweb flight suit!)

So just after posting the So Yesterday thing I was surfin' about, like a fool. And I decided I didn't actually know what a Nehru jacket looked like. So I hit the big red Google button and stumbled acrosss the Bad Fad Museum Good stuff there!

So I'm blocking myself up a little bit and I'm pretty sure I know why. 1) I'm a creature of habit, of routine in large part. I'm a little adrift until I figure out what my new routine needs to be. I've got too many variables to game and I have to get that all sorted before my productivity will go up. 2) I set myself a pretty stern deadline, and that's interacting badly with 1). So I'm moving to Plan B - without the deadline and giving me a little more time to figure out the new lifestyle. I *AM* getting some writing down - just not the same effortless groove I was achieving towards the end of the NaNoWriMo novel. I'll get there, I just need to take things as they unfold and not obsess on rates of progress. Until the second week anyway :-) It's been raining since I quit, today was the first time I'd seen the sun in four days or so. I was putzing around on the computer doing some pre-writing web surfing and suddenly realized "Hey, it's really bright outside." So the iPod and I took off for an hour or so of walking around the neighborhood. That was certainly very cool - I'm not used to even particularly noticing an unexpected hour of sunshine, much less exploiting it. Then I came home and read some short stories and ended up taking a nap with my tricksy little cat. You won this time Schrodinger! (shakes fist in the air)

The hamdog. If you decide to not read the whole thing thing be sure to search for "Luther". There's an offhand reference at the bottom and it's just about as (possibly even more) horrifying.

Does anybody possess the secret decoder ring to interpret Memory Stick labels? For instance, say I wanted to get a reasonably large Memory Stick to put in a PSP. I think the Duo format is slightly smaller physically? And Pro has Magic Gate? So you want a Duo Pro stick? Is that required? I've got this theory that I should mail order a large enough stick to put video on, and do it BEFORE the PSP releases.