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Jan. 31st, 2011 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jencatdear god, the amount i used LJ last year was shockingly low, looking back. I did kinda assume I would use it a lot more whilst gallivanting round the Rockies etc for several weeks last summer (given that I was wandering around with a new netbook and lots of free wifi) but hell, most of the time I seriously didn't feel like doing anything that could be construed as actual work after a very long day driving a couple hundred miles... heh. (I did manage to watch the last couple of eps of Dr Who come hell, high water or sitting in a tent with wifi in the middle of Wyoming. Just saying.)
It's not so much that this was necessarily a Terrible Thing (mostly it was because I realised I could be online every night or I could, like, actually put the netbook away and get some sleep occasionally. Sleep is good.)
But it did mean that lots of stuff about last year just went slightly, er, undocumented. And that's a little sad, from my perspective. I mean, last year we gained the Dingo Dog (who I kinda adore, after all that. He's been such a sad little thing and now we're spoiling him rotten in his old age.) Also: two dogs are as much work as you think three will be, Temple Grandin is scarily right about that :o)
I also blitzed the London Film Festival with seeing an insane amount of films, and only managed to catch a couple of them on here... for my own future reference, I probably need to do the rest eventually (it would be a crying shame not to mention Carancho and Dear Doctor, after all that). And I kinda ended up deliberately not mentioning the vast majority of ComiCon because it was such a freaking insane few days with the point that most of what i suspected has come to pass - you can't do this con the same way any more, and mostly you choose whether you want to do Hall H before you go in because you sure as hell won't be able to do that and anything else...
Which bugged me. Immensely. I was sulking for quite a bit about going all that way and then missing all the major announcements etc because a 4 hour queue is not compatible with seeing any of the smaller panels a well (although admittedly i still kinda queued for the best part of 4 hours to see the Burn Notice panel (minus the two leads, but hey, we had Bruce Campbell), which was nowhere near Hall H. It was totally worth it tho...)
It's not so much that this was necessarily a Terrible Thing (mostly it was because I realised I could be online every night or I could, like, actually put the netbook away and get some sleep occasionally. Sleep is good.)
But it did mean that lots of stuff about last year just went slightly, er, undocumented. And that's a little sad, from my perspective. I mean, last year we gained the Dingo Dog (who I kinda adore, after all that. He's been such a sad little thing and now we're spoiling him rotten in his old age.) Also: two dogs are as much work as you think three will be, Temple Grandin is scarily right about that :o)
I also blitzed the London Film Festival with seeing an insane amount of films, and only managed to catch a couple of them on here... for my own future reference, I probably need to do the rest eventually (it would be a crying shame not to mention Carancho and Dear Doctor, after all that). And I kinda ended up deliberately not mentioning the vast majority of ComiCon because it was such a freaking insane few days with the point that most of what i suspected has come to pass - you can't do this con the same way any more, and mostly you choose whether you want to do Hall H before you go in because you sure as hell won't be able to do that and anything else...
Which bugged me. Immensely. I was sulking for quite a bit about going all that way and then missing all the major announcements etc because a 4 hour queue is not compatible with seeing any of the smaller panels a well (although admittedly i still kinda queued for the best part of 4 hours to see the Burn Notice panel (minus the two leads, but hey, we had Bruce Campbell), which was nowhere near Hall H. It was totally worth it tho...)
