A brief heads up--

[amand_r]

1. The computer died. I am writing to you from the new one, Toshiko Toshiba, Mistress of the Dark Computer Arts.

a. This means that everything is actually trapped on my old hard drive, including the stories i owe three of you. I have to get ahold of a serial hard drive case, and when I do, I can access the giant vag in the center of the earth files again. I might just have to start those stories over in the meantime.


2. I need german food recipes! I am having the buds over for dinner, and i want to make spaetzle! I cannot get good brats here, sadface. But I was thinking I might try the strip district for some rabbit! Anyone have anything German to recommend?

3. As announced on twitter, I shall be writing a YA novel that is a steampunk vampire rip-off of The Color Purple called, "The Color Vortex" or possibly "The Vortex purple." It might also involve a Danny Glover robot that says "I'm too old for this shit."

Really, most of this stupid shit is on my twitter. If you ever feel the nee to talk to me during the day about lame shit, I'm cerebralcutlass.

4. ALSO--even though I am behind on the stories, I am still sending out the cookies soon! SO! IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME GINGERNSNAPS OR GARAM MASALA CHOCOLATE GINGERBREAD, AND A LITTLE FICLET, PLEASE SEE HERE: Amand-r's Frabjous Writing Promo. The ficlets are supposed to be 500 words, but as you can see from the first one, I kind of discard that sometimes. BUT 500 WORD MINIMUM!

The first story was for lilian_cho, and was called Registry, inspired by her starter sentence of, "It's not like there's a Chinese gay kama sutra."

5. Soon I shall watch the second half of Torchwood Miracle Day. And then, even thought I have been discouraged with fandom lately, I shall open the las.

6. Highlander peeps, I have not forgot you! Not having the templates on hand makes life slightly more pissy, but I know how to cut and paste, so I'll steal them soon. Sign ups start tomorrow, I think!

Comments

[spiderine.livejournal.com]

I cannot get good brats here

Vstroyer is the best brat I've ever encountered. *runs away*

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

True, but CYS says I can't eat her. :( Pelops!

[dreamscapemusic.livejournal.com]

I'm the drkmcquickly that just followed you on twitter. Pretty sure I'm not a spambot, but I'm not honestly sure.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if I am a spambot, too!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

lol! i named my new toshiba netbook "Dr Sato" :)

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

When most of her name is already there, it's a no-brainer!

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

pretty much my thoughts

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Plus, that can only make the computer run better, right?

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

obviously

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Until it gets shot in the gut from my brother from the future and then falls down a flight of stairs.

Other Dead Computer: I AM ANGRY TOSH! SO MUCH COMPUTING I DIDN'T GET TO DO!
Toshiko Toshiba: Don't! Stop! You're breaking my heart!

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Toshibas are super hardy workhorses. Mine was a decade old and an ex high school machine. And it still works. It has a genuine wear and tear glitch and no battery life to speak of, but it's pretty darn impressively good, considering that it's a Frankenstein machine built from three or four broken ones.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have had a Dell, IBM, Sony, and 2 HPs, so I figure it was time to learn something detrimental to say about Toshiba. In the end, they all have issues, and most of them are machine specific. You can get a good apple or a bad one. Bah. This one looks awesome so far.

[iamshadow.livejournal.com]

Well, the glitch that mine has is that the motherboard is joined together in places (because it is in three parts) and the points lose contact with each other now and then causing the computer to hard shutdown immediately (because as it's a power interruption, it's read as a surge and the machine turns off to protect itself) but this is an issue purely because it's over a decade old and has been opened up and refurbished several times. It's not an issue you'd get with a new machine.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Considering that the last one I got is only 2 years old, I will take a 10 year old temperamental machine.

[itcamefromjapan.livejournal.com]

My iPod is named Toshiko! Sadly, being an Apple product, it lacks that extra pun opportunity you're getting, but hey. It's still a Toshiko, dammit!

Also, adding you on Twitter. I'm ferninator.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Toshikos across the world unite!

Wait no, that would probably end in disaster.

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! Computer death is sad. But yay cookies! :D (I did pay you, right?)

I'm not sure how I feel about 'steampunk vampire rip-off of The Color Purple', but I'd be interested in reading it.

*resists getting a twitter, resists getting a twitter*

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

HAHAAAHAH FEAR NOT. I would never try to do steampunk, vampires or the color purple.

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to envision it. ...and kind of failing. :P

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! IT BLOWS THE MIND! I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF SOMETHING OUTRAGEOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE!

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

I'm honestly not sure I could think of something more impossible.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

It's a game! You have to me more surreal than the random plot generator!

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. What about like, ninja sci-fi Catcher in the Rye? Actually, I bet that'd be kind of cool...

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

ninja scifi catcher in the rye, set in nazi germany. With muppets.

[tree00faery.livejournal.com]

How is it sci-fi if it's in Nazi Germany?

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

AU!

[firynze.livejournal.com]

Spaetzle is so easy and fun! I need to make it again sometime soon.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I have only made it once before, but NEE AGAIN. OM NOM NOM.