the things you don't even know you don't know, until you know them
Tue 2015-03-24 23:34:48 (in context)
A thing I learned today: It's amazing how much one can do if one actually gets out of bed up on time.
However, it's also amazing how easily a small roadblock can dam that fresh flow of productivity. To wit:
A thing I really wish I'd learned today: Why the heck Scrivener will only successfully launch once on the ASUS.
That's it. Just once after install. After I exit the program, the next time I attempt to use it, it will completely fail to launch ever again. Sometimes it signals its failure by a big blank window that includes the parenthetical "(Not Responding)" in its title bar. Sometimes it just sits there, invisibly, in the Task Manager list of processes. In neither case will it enable me to write. Recovering functionality then requires uninstalling Scrivener, rebooting the computer, and reinstalling Scrivener. Some service or background application is clearly jamming up the works, and it's not Dropbox, because I got rid of that sucker. It may be time to disable pretty much every service listed in msconfig and see what happens.
A thing I already knew: What doesn't kill me makes me stronger.
It is still too early to determine which of those two categories, "things that kill me" or "things that make me stronger" All Stars practice will ultimately fall into. But if you illustrated that venerable saying by means of a Venn diagram, with "things that kill me" in one circle and "things that make me stronger" in another, non-overlapping circle, you would then draw a larger circle such that it encompassed both of the smaller two, and that larger circle would be labeled, "things that are, in fact, trying to kill me."
I dunno; maybe I'm being a little overdramatic. I plead not guilty by reason of being under the influence of my body, which is top pro at complaining, y'all.
Complain or not, it's going to skate again tomorrow evening at Bombshells practice.
(This may or may not occasion more Venn diagrams.)