1. I just got a new pair of "running shoes". This is them: http://www.shoes.com/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?p=EC1059890&pg=5048850
They're even louder than they look in the picture. I don't know about "running" shoes though. I'm going to stick some inserts in them and see how it goes, but they're really not comfy enough for running for me. I may end up looking around for something else.

2. I just got a USB to SATA + IDE cable. Managed to retrieve all kinds of pictures and music off of 2 old hard drives we've had hanging around for ages. There is a third hdd that won't open up when connected though. Either it's some kind of master setting that's wrong that I don't know how to fix )since it recognises that it's there) or it's just kaput.

Which brings me to...

3. I recovered some old stories I wrote ages ago before I got into fanfic off one of the drives. Rereading them has affirmed something in my mind. I came to the conclusion about a year or so ago, that for most of my life as a child and as an adult, I was not really human. I think I've only just begun come into humanity in the past few recent years. I still consider myself a human in training today, since I started so late. Before, I don't think I had any real concept of anything outside of myself, any idea of what it means to be human, to be a person among people. I don't think that began to change until I was about 23 or 24, and reading fiction that I wrote from that era and earlier, there is definitely something missing from it. It lacks, for lack of a better word, soul.
I have an idea of what the catalyst for that change might have been, but it isn't a pleasant memory. But then that's what most literature has been trying to tell me for a long time now, it's those low moments that give you perspective and are the impetus for change, e.g., To Kill a Mocking Bird, etc. You have to have those times in order to grow up I guess. I just had mine later than most.

ETA: Oh also, I'm on page friggin 17 of Black Bottle. Took a little hiatus there cuz I was hating it but I'm back and it makes sense again, but this is gonna be another long one.