Thoughts of a heateater

[smokingboot]

So for further writing I have done a little research including a frustrating hunt for an old (not very good) piece I was sure I put up on lj ages ago, and now can't find; if only we had tags then. If only I could remember to use them now. Oh well.

The hunt led nowhere, and, as is the way of all research, when I start, doubtless it will be about something else entirely. The idea isn't usually with me at the beginning. I stare at a blank screen, and find the headspace needed; this should be optimum time for me, now my love is away for a week, and I have house and computer all to myself, only instead of flitting off to fantasy realms, my brain pulls off in a hundred directions, all of them here, in the real world, whatever that is. I'm caught up in earthdreams, sensual, resistant to word pins; I can't even make this feeling a story, it's too real and shadowy for that. It exists under fur bedspreads, by candlelight where the heat of a fire has thickened the air til you breathe it in like silk, or petals on your mouth.

Maybe it's because I am alone, my thoughts drift towards hands and eyes, lips and fingers, someone else's touch... or maybe I'm just bloody cold, and all my backbrain wants is some victim to mercilessly suck heat from. There may be a whole collection of them under the bed, dessicated ice-mummies who, over the years, surrendered their body-warmth at the touch of my frozen feet. I won't check, just in case they're annoyed.

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Practically speaking, you can download an LJ archiver from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/ - this has two functions. Firstly, just in case LJ ever decides to go bottom up, you've still got all your posts and the comments that people have made on your computer.

Secondly, it allows you to search your own posts and the comments attached.

I got very frustrated at the lack of a proper search facility within LJ a looooonnnngggg while ago. This solves that.

The only downside I can see is that I haven't found out how to get it to run automatically once a week - so my LJ gets archived every time I remember. Which tends to be monthly or so.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you, this is intensely useful, especially as I have had quite a few posts disappear over the last few months.

I will play with it tonight, and hopefully find the lost piece I want.

[bytepilot.livejournal.com]

Of you're running windoze you should be able to add it to the list of scheduled tasks in control panel...

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Possibly ... actually doing the archiving means starting up the LJ archiver, then going to a menu and choosing a 'synchronise' option (because it's more than just archiving software, I guess).

Anyhow, I've not really looked at using the scheduled tasks to do it, so will poke at some point.