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( Feb. 9th, 2011 09:11 pm)
Luckily nothing alive was injured.
I came home from a fine dinner at Tea and Sympathy with the lovely Genevieve Valentine and we heard weird hammering going on either next door or upstairs. Then I noticed one piece of art crooked on the wall in my living room next to my computer and then that a larger, heavier picture was on the floor between couch and cocktail table where I work. I was relieved to see that the glass hadn't broken and Genevieve kindly rehung the photograph on the wall. It wasn't until I sat down that I noticed a long scratch/crack on my 19 inch monitor. Obviously, the framed photograph bounced off the screen onto the floor.

I knocked on the door next door and my new neighbor popped out. I explained what happened and she was quite upset--workers hired by Ikea were installing a wardrobe in her bedroom, which is on the other side of my living room wall. They were hammering away. She told me the worker phoned his manager. She took phone photos of the crack and I looked up information on replacing the monitor. The company is phoning her back tomorrow and we both hope they will take care of this (she has lots of other complaints about them).

I knew today was too easy.
This is the most excitement I've experienced in awhile. I never realized I could be so grateful for such seemingly trivial things but my contacts--all 700 plus (if I recall when Matt asked if that could be the file) plus my 40,000 plus emails have been retrieved and are now on my new computer. I've been working half blind since I returned home September 18th.

I thank my friend Melody's husband profusely (in fact I gave him a bottle of excellent single malt as a thank you).

I thank my friend Matt for installing everything on my new computer plus the old emails and contact db, and fixing the glitches.

My emails are automatically being forwarded to gmail, my files/photos/contacts and emails are also being backed up by backblaze. So I hope this will never happen again.
Thank everyone for your suggestions, sympathy, and moral support.
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( Oct. 8th, 2010 01:14 pm)
I got home from Portland late Wednesday night and now am attempting to dig my way out of the mess that is my apartment. (I started this yesterday and gave up).

I had a ball, in Portland, thanks to those in charge and those attending the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival/Cthulhucon. Thank you both Andrews and Greg. Lovely to get to hang out and talk. I got to watch one set of short films that were very very good. Also, Dark Horse threw a wonderful reception (with delicious food and drink) in honor of Lovecraft Unbound and my editor Rachel took me on a tour of the DH offices. Thank you Kari (the publicist who organized the reception).

After the festival, I spent a couple of days with friends and visited Lucius Shepard for a couple of hours where I tortured him into making a short video for Teeth and had dinner and Irish whiskeys with some of the Portland writing community.

I have photos from Australia to edit and post and then photos from Portland. I've got new reviews I'd like to post too.

An attempt to retrieve my contact file from my fried hard drive has succeeded. Wednesday we'll see if the file can successfully be loaded into the new computer. No word yet about the emails. But the contact list will be an important start.
My new desktop has been set up and it's weird to see my mail in outlook again. Still hoping that the emails/contacts will be pried off my old hard drive.

And tomorrow morning (if the weather permits-it's supposed to rain --hard) I will be off to the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon for the weekend. I will be online periodically.

Back Wed night late.


Movies I've seen lately:
The American with George Clooney, as a mysterious moody ...spy/assassin/whatever --it takes a while to figure out what--is being hunted by some Swedes and off he goes to Italy for a job and to hideout. This is a very European film-understated, not all that much action, with the only recognizable (to me) actor being Clooney. I loved it.

On netflix:
The Lookout, watched because Joseph Gordon-Levitt of Inception is in it and someone here recced it. Good movie but he's sooo young in it that I couldn't drool. Young guy from rich family is brain damaged in a car accident and now works as a janitor in a bank. He's "befriended" by an older guy who has plans to use the kid.

The Men Who Stare at Goats was much better than I expected. A satire about government conspiracies with George Clooney as a trained psychic ninja (basically) and Ewan McGregor (with an American accent that keeps slipping) as a journalist trying to find out the TRUTH.

Ponyo a sweet, but less than topnotch Hayao Miyazaki movie about a little boy and a princess who happens to be a goldfish. Love ensues. Wizard daddy disapproves. Moms come to the rescue.
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