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So Pitas seems to be down again. Thus I shall just mention that reverse psychology works and I finished the Ycon anthology story even after a foray into The Groove of idly writing '(certain character) began composing a poem' and then realizing that rats I'd have to say what the poem was. Which did, bar the last line which will doubtless present itself to me this evening or tomorrow. I have till Tuesday, whatever. So anyway. To begin the process of reverse psychology that might induce me to start summarizing Yakunimo Tatanai.

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It doesn't often work, I hasten to add. But creativity for me needs the assurance of absolute irresponsibility. No you're not writing this story don't even think of writing this story go play solitaire or watch HK movies because there's no point in writing the story. Then the story comes. The same effect is not to be noticed with, say, taxes or washing the kitchen floor.

The same effect is not to be noticed with, say, taxes or washing the kitchen floor.

Erm. I've never known it to succeed for that either... (sigh) The Solitaire program that comes with the Windows OS is the most perfect space-out tool known to humanity. Each time I do a clean install I won't load it for for that reason. Eventually I always cave in.

My downfall was freecell until I moved to Win98 and a 17" screen. The cards are now the wrong shape. Alas someone in a blog mentioned the aptly titled addiction solitaire, and it's exactly that. Plus a certain amount of internal 3-year-old being obstinate and unco-operative.

Why would they be the wrong shape? No one is that tech-phobic -- adjust your monitor and resolution settings!

Speaking of monitors, I keep meaning (and forgetting) to say this, but I ~like~ your LJ color and your icons. Well, not the one with the scary face, but the others are chouette. (I figure this is like informing someone that you like their shoes, only virtual. Except I never notice shoes.)

They're the wrong shape because they're not the shape they were on a 12" in Win95. Adjusting monitor settings makes no difference, and besides it's a cheapass monitor that makes you click buttons over and over and over to very little effect. Adjusting screen area out of my normal 640 x 480 either makes everything long and thin or makes everything tiny. People function at 1024 x 768? How? By holding magnifying glasses to the screen?

Thank you. The colours were an accident in fact, and half the icon ideas came from TTG. The moon ones are details from Hasui prints.

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