Adventures in hard-drive-digging.

[napoleonherself]

The problem with having half a terabyte of storage, of course, is that when you find yourself saying "hey, whatever happened to the files from that one thing I did four years and two computers ago...?", it becomes... rather an exercise in perserverance. I found most of what I was looking for, though, which was nice. It was on the H drive! I'm glad I decided to click around in Windows Explorer instead of just waiting for Windows Grep to turn it up for me, because I would've gone alphabetically through my drives one at a time starting with E, and that would've taken like three days.

I also found this, which I had totally forgotten... ahh, memories. For those who weren't around at the time, years back there was this Puzzle Pirates forum contest where you could write and illustrate a piratey children's tale, and the prizes were various trinkets, various rare or special pig-themed things, and, as grand prize, a pink octopus familiar. I have no idea if things have changed now, since I haven't played since maybe three months after the contest ended (somehow whenever I pick up YPP it's in the summer, and then in the fall when all the kids go back to school it gets boring so I quit), but back in the day familiars were very rare. I won him, though. That was pretty awesome.

I kind of miss being Fenestra, and since I shelled out for dubs on her account then I assume she's still there (along with Dearic, who was on the same account). But it wouldn't be the same, plus I dread trying to go back and finding that she and her beautiful rare octobuddy Blaine HAVE been deleted. Far better to imagine them having wonderful pirate adventures together, without my interference. I'm strange that way.

(Note that, given a pink octo, I came up with the name Blaine. Some will get this reference; others will not. And that is the truth.)

There are of late a couple other "children's books" ideas tickling my brain, and I should really get around to working on them! They probably wouldn't pass muster with a panel of six-to-eight-year-olds, but the ideas for them amuse me to no end.

Comments

[darnn.livejournal.com]

I was probably explained this back then, but I'm one of the people that doesn't get the Blaine reference, though Googling has turned up The Wailing Octopus by John Blaine, which I know nothing about.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Blaine is a pain, and that is the truth.

And by Blaine I mean the sentient, insane monorail that Roland and his friends have to deal with in book 3 of The Dark Tower. He is bubblegum-pink.

See? Perfect sense.

[darnn.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, I immediately remembered what you were talking about after the first sentence, but I think even if I'd remembered Blaine's name yesterday, I still wouldn't have made the connection.