Backing up files...

Last night I spent hours backing up files on my computer. I'm taking my computer in to the shop for an upgrade today. The time has come. A problem with my USB port has made me escalate my inent from "get it fixed" to "while it's in the shop, I could get a few other things done...."

Amazing how long it took to back things up - I kept telling myself that if I did this more often it wouldn't be so difficult to keep up with it. I'm sure all you people out there are sensible and organized enough to back up your files on a regular basis. I'm not.

Heck, I'm so disorganized I found e-mail I'd meant to answer six months ago. Apologies and hugs to everyone who's been waiting six months for a reply to something, okay?

Okay, this is funny....

So I saw this goofy battle-cry thing on dargie's LJ and gave it a try. It's lunchtime, I'm all excited about having just bought the DVD of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" (I love typing that whole title), and trying to settle down to work again. (Work? Work.) So a battle-cry is just what I need.

Actually, I have a real battle-cry, honestly bequeathed to me by my bloodthirsty ancestors. I'm not denigrating them here - everyone's ancestors were bloodthirsty, trust me on this. My particular set (at least, the ones I'm thinking of her) were bloodthirsty Scots who shouted "Stand fast!" and "Stand fast Craigellachie!" as they thumped their enemies the MacGregors in battle. They were Grants. I have some good friends who are MacGregors; I hope my ancestors are okay with that. Don't see why they wouldn't be: the whole point of conflict is resolving it, anyway, and I'm sure they'd be happy to raise a wee dram in the end.

So this silly quiz gave me a battle-cry that doesn't sound to me the least little bit like an act of war. Something else entirely. What do you think? I think it's something I could use in a story - and not a fight scene, either.

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Striding on the icy wasteland, swinging a meaty axe, cometh Fajrdrako! And she gives an ominous bellow: "I'm going to cram objects into you from every conceivable angle!!!"

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A bear of very little brain...

It was mosself who sent me running to this site, with Winnie the Pooh slash. tritaia is cited as saying "...there's a vast chasm between the clexers and trekslashers and...us."

Maybe not so vast after all. Hey, I've never heard myself called a clexer before. I rather like it.

I find this sort of charming, in a twisted and crazy revisionist-childhood sort of way. Winnie the Pooh has always been one of my favourite books. Piglet was and is my favourite of the characters, and the one I most identified with, though I fear that I actually resemble Owl a little bit.

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Okay, here's a case where I did a quiz really, really, really wanting a certain result. Cincidentally, it was the same result that dargie got, and I got the quiz it from her.

I didn't have to skew my answers at all. It's true, of course, if I was a movie star of old I would be this one. I love her style. I look forward to reading the new book about her - and the rumoured autobiography we've yet to see, where she can be posthumously frank.



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