What’s going on with me lately
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stormkeeper_lovedoris- Lately looking at the computer screen has really been making my eyes sore. Not good since I basically look at one all day at work.
- I’ve also been re-reading my looong X-men fanfic and really getting into X-men, especially the Northstar/Iceman pairing. However, reading this fic after work is not helping my eyes much.
- So I have fallen behind on my emails to people. Sorry. I will try to rest my eyes and catch up.
- I am thrilled to see a pretty active Northstar/Iceman following on LJ though. There are sooo many fanfics I need to catch up on reading. I know it's silly but I think of myself as one of the first fanfic writers to pair these two up (I might be wrong on that, but still) and now there are LJ communities dedicated to them and lots of fanfic as well.
- Oddly, I’m not as into Spiderman as I was just a couple weeks ago. When I think of writing fanfic now, I think of writing more X-men again instead of Spiderman. Weird.
- The X-men fic I want to write is basically a re-write of my long X-men trilogy. I
want to do it, but what’d be the point? I feel that I should cover new ground, but then again I do have some cool ideas for my re-write so it might be worth it.
- One sad thing is that I haven’t been reading much lately, other than fanfic. Normally I’m in the middle of 2 or 3 books at a time. I put 2 library books aside that weren’t hooking me and am slowly reading a really boring book that I bought, and nothing else now for days. That’s unusual for me. I guess it’s mostly because my eyes are sore, I don’t have much free time, and I’m reading X-men stuff now. I’m sure I will get back into reading again.
- I’ve also been re-reading my looong X-men fanfic and really getting into X-men, especially the Northstar/Iceman pairing. However, reading this fic after work is not helping my eyes much.
- So I have fallen behind on my emails to people. Sorry. I will try to rest my eyes and catch up.
- I am thrilled to see a pretty active Northstar/Iceman following on LJ though. There are sooo many fanfics I need to catch up on reading. I know it's silly but I think of myself as one of the first fanfic writers to pair these two up (I might be wrong on that, but still) and now there are LJ communities dedicated to them and lots of fanfic as well.
- Oddly, I’m not as into Spiderman as I was just a couple weeks ago. When I think of writing fanfic now, I think of writing more X-men again instead of Spiderman. Weird.
- The X-men fic I want to write is basically a re-write of my long X-men trilogy. I
want to do it, but what’d be the point? I feel that I should cover new ground, but then again I do have some cool ideas for my re-write so it might be worth it.
- One sad thing is that I haven’t been reading much lately, other than fanfic. Normally I’m in the middle of 2 or 3 books at a time. I put 2 library books aside that weren’t hooking me and am slowly reading a really boring book that I bought, and nothing else now for days. That’s unusual for me. I guess it’s mostly because my eyes are sore, I don’t have much free time, and I’m reading X-men stuff now. I’m sure I will get back into reading again.
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Date: 2008-03-07 06:29 pm (UTC)Also, try reducing your brightness level.
What we software geeks often also do is invert to colours on our applications. Make the backgrounds black and the text light yellow/cream/white. This is easier on the eyes when reading lots of text. Some applications let you set this under their customisation, but if you change it in Windows Display settings it does it for all applications. If you want to try, right-click on your desktop, Select “properties” Go to the Appearance tab and select “advanced” button. On the dialog, select Window from your items dropdown and select the colours you want to try. One warning, sometimes this has strnge effects on applications were they have only half customised there settings (you should either set the colours of everything or nothing) e.g. they explicitly set the font of a label to black, but leave the background to be controlled by user settings, and if the user changes the background to black, you can’t see the label. If this happens. You either need to change this back or change the background to blue.