The mother of all blonde moments

[winter]

Okay, so I'm checking out the friendslist, and the ShinyShiny feed is linking to other cool stuff in its sister blogs. Clicking on one of those links provides a slew of pop-up windows. Yelp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Task Manager, frantic mouse action, whimper.

Then blink.

I call up Task Manager again. It's missing all its upper part - the title bar, the menu, and the tabs to switch to Processes view.

Cue almost two hours of panic, frantic virus and adware scanning, being too scared to call up Internet Explorer to google the thing, and generally biting my fingernails clean off.

And then when I finally remember that hello, I also have the ancient Netscape 4.7 that I use for mail, what is the first Google result for "task manager menu missing"?

Task Manager tiny footprint mode.

I knew my hair should have been re-dyed two weeks ago ~_~

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In NaNo-News, Chapter 2 is up, with a lot of backstory and exposition. Coming up: Kirill-chapter, and then possibly a letter from Arthur to his friend in Europe to introduce the political landscape before the Big Vampire Council. Hoping to hit 10K later tonight.

8,707 / 50,000 (17.4%)

Comments

[anvar.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful to read, quite unlike my crap that I can't bear to look at again. *sigh* I hope to breach the 10K tomorrow.

[winter]

*pats* If it helps, I can't look at back parts of Flowers either. It's something about getting it out of me this fast, or the fact that I've made a decision not to retcon stuff except for the current chapter. If it turns out to have a reasonable ending in a reasonable word length (unlikely, since at 10K I'm barely through the second day, and to provide proper tension the whole thing should take two weeks at least), there will be changes, that's for sure ~_~

And uh, are you posting your NaNo anywhere? I have a list of people's NaNos to read just as soon as my own stops torturing me.

[kyrre.livejournal.com]

I don't post it. It's currently in German, not even spell-checked and especially the output of the first two days is especially bad. I will take a look in December if it has still a likeness to a plot then.

[winter]

*pats* Just in case you ever need a friendly eye, my passive German is quite decent :)

[atheva]

I haven't even read this post yet, Beth, I just had to loudly squee "ICON LURVE!"

Alright, read through and... THat sounds very much like somethign I would have done, Beth!

[winter]

:D Isn't it precious? I was looking for a good icon for places like Fandom_Wank and customers_suck, and then Orko just jumped out at me!