God, I love O'Reiley's. It is our bar. I can't sleep too well due to full of Miller Light and burger. It maketh me happy.
The 21st needs to get here sooner. I needs my new lappy. HP also needs to realize that it's really silly to sell a convertable notebook where you have to actually order the touchscreen hardware (you know, the tablet that it's supposed to convert into) as an "extra feature" for an extended price. It's a great computer, but their business about things baffles and tires me out.
I think I need to back track a bit. The new computer business has worn me out. Everything started off smoothly. The order went in, we got the software in two days after the order and were expecting the computer itself in 1.5-2 weeks. Then, 1.5 weeks later, my mom's tracking e-mail says that FedEx already sent it...to the wrong house. Three days after finding out, we get the computer back and in one, undisturbed piece, only to find that I lacked a stylus. I called HP about this, and they told me that the stylus is only sent when you request the touchscreen feature. I ask, "What do you mean, request the touchscreen feature? It's a convertible tablet PC." "Oh, well I take it you assumed that when you ordered your notebook that it would come with the touch screen." "...Sorry, it wasn't clear that I was ordering a notebook with a semi-useless swivel screen and not tablet feature." So we had to send it back and they're in the process of making me a new computer. I expect it hear around the 21st.
I'm brainstorming again on Folklorique, which I think I'm going to change to being called Woods of Exile, or something like that. I'm blending Elizetta with Cinderella, Tattercoats and Cap-o-rushes, so that all three princesses are hiding/in exile, hence the name. I hate to admit it, but my borrowing of Fables: March of the Wooden Soldiers from 4M and hours spent at the kiosk have got my wheels turning in that direction again, much to my glee. For the first time, I drew all four princesses (Blanca/Snow White, Rosemunda/Rose Red, Aurora and Elizetta) side by side while working. and I started brainstorming more on their love interests. I want to incorporate the bear prince from Snow White and Rose Red, but I also want for there to be the seven dwarves. I still haven't figured out how Queen Phoebe to "kill" Blanca, since I want to make the three classic life attempts all failures (for those who don't remember the non-Disney version, the Queen tries to kill Snow White by strangling her with her corset, poisoning her on a prick--usually a comb, but I'm going to change it to a spindle for plot purposes--and then the apple). It'll work itself out, as I'm probably hitting up Word when I get back from work again.
School is blah, but I need to finish and transfer. Finally.