Nest-Building

A few weeks ago, someone gave me a Gmail invite, but once I had set up my account I found that Gmail didn't work with the Mac version of Internet Explorer. So I downloaded Mozilla and really liked the tabbed pages feature, but it crashed annoyingly often so I decided to go for Opera. Opera was very quick to download and has similar tabbing to Mozilla, but I can't use Gmail with it. Maybe I'll try downloading Firefox at the weekend and give that a go, but I'm happy with Opera as it hasn't crashed once since I got it! I'll just have to wait until Gmail start supporting Opera at some point before I start using my account.

But I'm getting away from the point, which is that when I changed to Opera I found that my LJs looked rubbish in it - the font was all weirdly spaced and hard to read. So as I was still using one of the old S1 styles, I realised that it was time for a change. I decided to go with a kittiwake theme, so I chose the Unearthed S2 style in an aqua and blue colour-scheme to give it a sea-like mood and changed the title and subtitle of the journal to go with the theme. Once I'd got kittiwake set up how I liked it, I changed kittiwakedreams to match.

My dream diary has icons of silent film stars, but I could do with a kittiwake icon for my main LJ although I do like the icons I have at the moment. If I had to choose I think I'd keep my hare and northern lights icons and replace the Isis icon. And I would swap the keywords round so that the hare stood for dreams and mythology and the kittiwake was the default. I may do that if I have time at the weekend and can find a kittiwake photo that looks good when shrunk to icon size.

Reading Overload

I read 11 books last month so that I would have plenty to release at the Brum meet-up, and I seem to be suffering burn-out as a result. So far this month I have only read 3 books. The first was "The Last English King", a historical novel that I needed to return to the person who lent it to me, and I really struggled to finish it, even though I was enjoying it. The second was "Pompeii", a historical adventure story for my book club, which luckily was an easy read and full of interesting information about volcanoes and the workings of the Roman aqueduct system. The third was "The e Before Christmas", a short humorous book written in the form of e-mails.
And now I can't decide what to read next, as I'm not really in the mood for reading anything at all. I ought to choose something non-fiction if I'm going to keep my last remaining New Year's resolution of reading at least one non-fiction book per month.