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I'm too easily influenced. I was reading Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics on the train, and I'm back again to the idea of writing comics - set in Davon, set in OtherDublin, even Starflung. And then that kicks me into thinking that I should try to get those projects going again. But I'm not much of a prose writer, and they need core stories, or at least a bible to work from. And I'd need more time.

I'm coming to the conclusion, though, that the laptop on which I do most if not all of my home computer use is not really suited to getting in and doing proper writing on - the keyboard is a little too awkward, the cursor control likewise, and I can't put the keyboard at the weird angle to the screen that I favour. I wonder if I get another keyboard and mouse and plug them in...

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Every now and then I remember that Orson Scott Card has a website. Usually I remember this when I'm really really busy. But right now I'm waiting for a meeting in which an email sent last night will be translated from marketing to tech. Because even though I'm normally pretty good at comprehending marketing-speak, this one's in an alien dialect. The words "click-thru" occur. Thru. By an Irish writer, I might add. "Thru" is the single American spelling that personally offends me, and makes me want to beat people with an Oxford Dictionary, or at least a volume thereof. It's just wrong.

Where was I? Oh, Orson Scott Card. He has some things to say about town and city planning in one of his columns, and it's good and valid. He's talking about exactly the kind of sterility that you can see growing around the north end of Harcourt Street in Dublin at the minute, and the same reasons that industrial estates and business parks are awful places.

I should really look into OU courses in Geography, or something.

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I just went shopping for socks, cos all of mine seem to have either vanished or developed holes in the heels. Unfortunately, I got distracted by a charity shop selling good woolly sweaters for ten euro, a second-hand bookshop selling, er, second-hand books, and a shop selling all kinds of Hallowe'en stuff from the cheap tack to the actually quite cool. I think I'll resist until the beginning of October, and then give in and buy some stuff to go on and around my desk here.