well that was unexpected

I arrived at work this morning to the fascinating discovery that I had no computer.

Apparently it bluescreened yesterday, so Miss California and Aunt Boss had it delivered to the local IT-slash-computer-repair company that manages our in-house ethernet networks. So I spent the morning unable to do anything besides answer the phone and go label packages in building lobbies, because all my other tasks require me to, you know, have a computer. Mostly I sat and read stuff on my cell phone.

In the event, I was able to go pick up the repaired machine shortly before 2pm. (It's nice having a car!) Then I spent the remainder of the afternoon playing catch-up.

I'm still unsure what caused the problem -- Miss California suspected some recent updates not playing nicely with everything else -- but apparently wiping and reinstalling the operating system and then updating all HP drivers fixed whatever it was.

wherein Liz resumes the editing slog

Thing I Did Today: started attacking the printout of my still tragically untitled Narnia/Naruto crossover with red pen. I got through 9 of 46 pages (printed at 1.5 line spacing to leave room for my scribbles) before my brain was like, "Nope! Done now," but I then went and typed those edits into the actual document so hey, I'll take it.

This first section is the part that needed the most drastic changes -- basically I needed to switch two character motivations completely around, and lay some groundwork for later developments -- so it's good to have those out of the way. I think the middle section is mostly okay as-is, but while the end is structurally okay, it needs a lot of fleshing out in terms of sensory description. I also need to find a couple places to slip in some family backstory without derailing the narrative flow, because right now it kind of comes out of nowhere at the end of the story. *sigh*

Ah well. One pushes onward.