snow

yesterday night we have the first snow of the season. there is no exclamation mark in the subject header because this isn't fun snow. it's not a light dusting, which is commonly the first we ever see, but it was a real snowfall of a couple of inches. but it was so wet even while falling that quite abnormally, i wasn't tempted at all to put on my sorels and stomp through the night, enjoying the crunch under my boots, the luminous glow over everything, and that particular silence that accompanies freshly falling snow at night.

*little grump*. well, it won't be the last snow.

it's cold enough for me to want to burn a fire at night, but we're almost out of wood, and i've been failing to check with the landlord why our ordered cord hasn't arrived yet.

i've been busy with more housekeeping chores; both actual house keeping, and cleaning/sorting computer files. all my photoshop plugins are now reorganised, and i am finally using a plugin manager. which has reduced photoshop's startup time by minutes; yay. and the kitchen floor has been scrubbed. i'm keeping warm by wearing my fleecey, and holding onto a warm mug of constant comment tea with honey whenever i am not typing. i cleared some room on the upper leg of my L-shaped desk and built a nest so one of the cats can sleep up there instead of occupying my graphics pad. most of the time bacchus claims the nest, and since none of the others want to be all that close to him, the graphics pad remains usable.

i still have a lot of organising to do, but i'm feeling good about what i've been getting done. however, it still means i am not keeping up with news, LJ, email, and usenet. the available energy is that low these days, *sigh*. it depresses me whenever i think of it. so, no thinking about it; back to cleaning images for collaging.

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how retro is it, i ask you, to not only provide a TI-86 emulator, but to also have an option to run it at the calculator's original speed?