I finished several things yesterday. It feels like I accomplished something. writing my NaNoWriMo project. A solid 50k + word first draft. Might be a good 35k word novella in there with some judicious editing. a first read-through on a huge pile of documentation. Useful and necessary for an ongoing extracurricular project. reading a book. […]

It’s been a little while since I did one of these. Of course, it’s november, so there’s very little blogging going on at all, thanks to the whole novel-writing experiments and general life stuff. Of course, I’m still doing the up and back to DC thing for work, and last week, coming home took me […]

I’ve not watched the Penn State thing with a lot of acuity, but given the fact that there are so many people in my social networking feeds that maintain the illusion that while Jesus may sit at the Righ Hand of God, good ol’ JoePa sits just the right of the big JC, I’ve been […]

Today, November 8, is election day in the United States. So go and vote. Yes, it’s an off-year election, which, if your ballot looked like mine when I absenteed it a couple of days ago (business travel this week), means lots of local races for school board and county board of supervisors and stuff. Just […]

Last minute changes in plans scuttled my original weekend schedule, but it all kind of worked out. No worries, I got a little bit more sleep and a bit of a break. Doesn’t change the fact that once you’ve properly girded yourself for a given task, having it fall off the schedule at the last […]

Some music: “Since I Don’t Have You” – Brian Setzer Orchestra “Low” – REM “Building a Mystery” – Sarah McLachlan “Ben Lee” (not “Ken Lee“)- The Ataris “Compromise” – The Indigo Girls “Little Song” – Sarah Jarosz “Buddy Holly” – Barenaked Ladies (yes, Barenaked Ladies covering Weezer) “Leave It All To Me” – Miranda Cosgrove […]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 2, the second spacecraft ever launched into earth orbit, and the vehicle that carried the first living thing thing into space, a three year old mutt called Laika. Poor Laika died shortly after lift-off, which is sad, but she’s a significant point in the history […]

I haven’t had a lot of time to be online this week. In between meetings, dealing with non-specific evening issues, not feeling all that great, and the beginning of NaNoWriMo (giving it another shot, this time with…an outline!), I just haven’t had much blogging inclination. I have seen/heard a couple of things worth passing on […]