I do the Q&A column in Full Circle Magazine. For the mechanical part, I use
Gedit, then upload the text and any images into Google Docs.

When I'm the one who provides the answer part of Q&A, it's always a result of
using Google. It's amazing how often the answer shows up in the first three
results from a Google search, if you know how to construct a good query.

I'm most of the way to solving my lockup problem. If I don't run Conky, the
system works just fine. My Conky script has about a dozen moving parts, so my
next step will be to track down which one is the troublemaker. That could take
days, but I'll get there.