Cody’s blog

I’ve just finally gotten my InsaneJournal to look the way I want it to. A stray comment from someone led me to figure out that the reason “?style=mine” wasn’t working on my journal was that I’m using S1. So I switched back to S2 (and a layout that allows the font size to be customized), and yes, I could specify comments to be displayed in my style. So! I’m happy with IJ now, and will probably play there more. I celebrated by uploading a few new icons: one Potterpuffs and two Transformers icons, one of Optimus Prime and one of Megatron, both movie style. I wish I had more Transformers icons… I wonder if there’s a Transformers icon community anywhere? I suppose I could make them myself, but that would be work!

I do seem to be writing Transformers fic. Eep! Post-movie, gen, Transformers fic. I started with that little bit I posted yesterday, and then continued with another 800 words or so. And, I’ve barely gotten started. I plotted out a bunch in my head while I was running yesterday, and have only written down a bit of that.  It’s going to need work—I’m so out of practice, I’m being way too wordy and formal. It’s Prime’s POV, and I think he does tend to be a bit like that, but not that much. But I’m not going to worry too much about it, I’m just going to write it, and then see if I want to clean it up and post it somewhere.

But it is fun to be writing, and to have stories in my head. I have a fandom again! I’ve been watching my Transformers G1 DVDs, I finished the S3, Part 1 set last night and started on the S3, Part 2 & S4 set. I still miss Megatron, but Galvatron is growing on me. Especially in these later eps, where he’s acting and talking almost exactly like Megatron. (It was fun in the earlier eps, though, when he was a total wack-job.) Probably when I finish S3&4, I’ll go back to the beginning and watch the first two seasons again. And the movie. And I’ll probably start collecting the Transformers graphic novels, too. And the other Transformers series. And there’s going to be a new Transformers animated series! Yay! Lots more Transformers to catch up on.

Today, my main project is to call someone about getting some electricity at my Mom’s place. I looked at batteries at Kmart on Friday, but didn’t see anything I wanted to buy. They do have Marine/RV deep cycle batteries, which would probably work, but I wasn’t sure if that was what I wanted. I keep going back and forth: get a cheap battery and just make her lights work the way they did before? Buy a less expensive all-in-one solar “powerpack”? Or call in a company (either Sharpe Solar, if I can get them to come, or that company in Mojave, if I can find their info) and get the whole thing set up so she’s got real electricity?

Today I’m going to see if I can dig up the Mojave company’s info, and give them a call and see what they can do. If it’s not too awfully expensive, I’ll go ahead and have them set up a whole system, with an inverter and everything, and get her some real power.

Other than that… I don’t know. Update my LibraryThing some more, maybe do some housecleaning. I don’t think I need to do any shopping.

One thing I need to do—which I keep forgetting, since the email’s in my Eudora and I’ve switched to using Google mail—is to read the page proofs of my story and get it back to Circlet Press. Eek! I think it’s been a couple of weeks. And upload some of the best pictures I took at the program on Saturday so Kris can get them. Maybe I’ll do that now.

Here’s one of the guy with his gopher snake, Gomer.