KCScribbler

Oy, no journal entry since May?  That just shows how much free time I've had.  :( Anyway, I wrote two novels since then, one for LiveJournal's StarTrekBigBang and one for NaNoWriMo (which is still missing the penultimate chapter, but hey), both of which can be found on my LJ and ff.net page.  This has been my first holiday season working management in retail, and so you can use your imagination as to my stress levels...which is the main reason why I've not been around much anywhere except my store and my bed, not fit to be around, too tired to see straight, etc., etc.  :blahblah: Hopefully today I can use the rare day off to finish my NaNo

Well, the one-month paid membership I got for participating in Star-Trekking (https://www.deviantart.com/star-trekking)'s Shatmoy competition expired this afternoon.  Helloooo, annoying ads and hijacking viruses.  :( Bad thing is that I didn't have time to explore any of the features for the paid account other than the viewing options.  *sigh*  It was so worth it just to not be attacked every six pages by some virus, though.

What the heck the designers here were thinking with this new "v.7" browser I have no idea, but I absolutely hate it.  Hard on the eyes, hard to navigate, and extremely unprofessional-looking in my opinion as a designer.  The point of a widely-used site is to be simple, uncomplicated, and with plenty of empty space so that eyes are drawn to the important things.  Adding enormous buttons and expanding headers, etc., is not the way to accomplish this. My eyes hurt so bad from trying to navigate this that I may just forget about looking at art period; it certainly is going to affect how often I surf this site. Why reinvent the wheel if the whee