Amalthia's recs and fan works

The unpacking of apartment is officially DONE!!! No more boxes. Tomorrow I still have to stop by the DMV to get a change of address and get my name changed on driver's license. I've been married just over 4 years and my license still has my maiden name because I hate going to the DMV.

I'm also feel like I'm at loose ends. I have all these projects up in the air and I stopped in the middle but finding my way back to them isn't as easy as I thought it would be. I'm trying to slowly but surely get back into the swing of things with adding stories to the Ebook Fan Fiction Library, I still have my list of stories I want to merge into a single file to add to my ebook device, and I still have my own personal project of merging author's fics into a single file. For anyone with an ebook device word of warning. After you add 1000 stories to the device it starts to slow down big time. Now that I know how to create a table of contents I've been merging all the stories by an author into 1 file, using the TOC to link to the individual stories. I already have over 300 stories merged into about 30 files. But those are still in RTF format and I'm not exactly looking forward to saving them as html and then converting them to LRF. I guess it just feels like a lot of work but I like the idea of my ebook device loading in less than 45 minutes. I'm such a packrat even on my reader I can't decide which stories to remove from it.

There is also a story that dropped right off in the middle of a sentence that I'm writing for a friend since I lost this bet on whether or not the guy that played the doctor in Northern Exposure also played the FBI guy in Numb3rs. (I totally lost, I just couldn't picture the doctor as Don who is incredibly hot and tall)

Right now I have a kitty cat sleeping on my lap so I think this is a good spot to stop writing and maybe watch vids. :)

Saturday I was pretty much gone the entire day. Did the monthly meetup with the Houston Browncoats at this really good chinese resturant and ate lunch, then went to a birthday party for a slash writer (pros fandom mostly I think) along with other fannish friends and we went to a Magic Show resturant. The food was awesome, I loved the company, and the magic show was neat. Afterwards, we headed back to the b-day woman's house and had cake and talked for a few more hours and finally at midnight I had to leave because I was getting kind of tired. it's just way too much fun hanging out with fan fiction people.

Then on Sunday, woke up messed around with trying to find the best way to convert RTF's to PDF (tried Times New Roman size 12 font it was too small, then tried size 14 and that was too big. Tried Arial and it just never looked right. Ended up settling for size 13 times new roman because in the wise words of my elder brother, sometimes you just have to leave things at "good enough") I was floored by this concept and it's amazing how many revolutionary ideas I get standing at the deli waiting for someone to slice ham for me. I've been trying so hard to make things "PERFECT" and I spent HOURS and felt like I got nothing done.

So decided to settle for good enough for now. I did mange to fix the margins which I was very happy about. So I think over the next week I'll check out the other PDF/LRF files hosted at the Ebook Archive. And with the PDF's I created I'll go back through and re-master them. As for the LRFs, while waiting in the IMAX theater to see the Dark Knight (which by the way was PACKED and we got there 40 minutes early!) I had my ebook reader and decided to see how the LRF fan fiction files looked. The font was VERY TINY so I'm going to over this upcoming week gather all the LRF files and use a slightly larger font with converting. (thankfully, I think this number is less than 4)

What really weirds me out about converting documents is that I'm converting novels to LRF using the exact same settings as I used for the fan fiction stories and those novels turn out readable. So not sure what is up with that. I'm predicting that because most of the novels are starting out with LIT and HTML containers that it makes a bit of a difference from my fan fiction RTF master copies. (at this point I think I should add a disclaimer to the archive letting people know that the RTFs are the REALLY GOOD copies and the other file types are less predictable) Though I am now trying to change that. But I really want good PDF versions for me if no one else. Because I like having graphics embedded in my stories and RTF is still buggy on my PRS-505.

So anyways, back to the Dark Knight. It was my second time watching and omg it was still riveting. If this movie isn't nominated for Best Picture I'll be VERY DISSAPOINTED. As far as I'm concerned this is the best movie I've seen this year in every way that counts. Iron Man comes close second but it's just not the same...and i'm not a movie critic so I can't say why I feel that Dark Knight deserves Best Picture Nomination (and win) and not Iron Man.

After the movie, my brother and I stopped by Best Buy to pick up more memory for his computer, then went shopping for food, and came home. (memory was a bust, will have to return to store tomorrow) and we just had a make it yourself dinner night. I think I ate too many twizzlers and my stomach felt unsettled...which sucked because my left over spagetti was AWESOME.

Then we spent the rest of the night watching Full Metal Alchemist which is still my favorite anime series I've seen in years. I love the Elric brothers and the first time I watched I cried my eyes out so many times! this time i'm prepared for the angst but it's still heartwrenching. So anyways, I dug up my old favorite FMA icon. :) I'm glad I'm allowed 1200 icons at JF now. I keep finding more icons to add. :)

I have over 1000 stories on my PRS-505 and well it's starting to slow down some. :( So I've been trying to figure out which stories need to go and it's VERY HARD to decide. I already removed some of the 1800 english literature stuff and I'm debating on removing the Shakesphere plays...but I kind of like having them on my book reader, I never know when I'll want to re-read Twelfth Night?

In other news, I saw Prince Caspian on Friday night and I really enjoyed the movie. I won't recommend it unconditionally because part of my enjoyment was due to the cute actors and how slashy the movie read to me. :)

I loved BSG and Doctor Who this week. Felt kind of meh about the season finale of SPN. (my husband hated the episode and said it was crap) Me I'm more forgiving because I love Sam and Dean (though truly they need to find better insults the skank/slut/whore stuff is getting old fast)