Got past 12.5K words today, and then accidentally left my jump drive at a location that is not my apartment, yet where I can be assured of retrieving it early tomorrow (by which I mean I am totally not writing at the office, ahem).
So tonight I'm just chilling. Cursing the BBC for not allowing me to watch the new episode of Spooks on-line via them (it's my fault I'm not in the UK?) and waiting for some lovely British person to, ah, did I mention that I am not writing at the office? Can't stress that enough.
Stolen from Mugsy:
Last Road Trip: For sheer road-trip purposes? Might be almost 10 years ago when Bullinger and I went out to Washington State.
Last Bad Advice: Given or received? I think can pinpoint "received" to when someone told me not to put that big a percentage of my 401K into railroad stock. I will now be shouting "31 PERCENT PREMIUM" at that person for time to come.
Last Movie I Saw in a Theater: Zombieland.
Last TV Show Watched: I caught some of Nova last night.
Last TV Show I Enjoyed Watching: Watched a load of The Closer over the weekend and am just now getting my internal narrator to stop using that fake Georgia accent.
Last Book I Tried to Read: In the Days of McKinley. McKinley was, based on the 35-pages I've read so far, an odd man. And we've had some seriously odd presidents, so that's saying something.
Last Thing I Left Home Without: My checkbook.
Last Take Out Meal: Probably Taco Bell. Although the one by my house is so inept that I usually stay in just for the floor show.
Last Celebration: I consider the giant sub and cheap beer the family had after cleaning out my house to be just about right.
Last Item Loaned Out and Haven’t Gotten Back: Some book, I'm sure. I've pretty much kept Catch 22 and The Westing Game in print from buying them over and over.
Last Package Received: The poster they sent for donating to NaNoWriMo. It's pretty sweet.
Last Web Site Visited: Mugsy's, of course.
Last Injury: I had this weird elbow thing going on where it killed to straighten my arm out. But that seems to have gone away.
Last Run In with the Law: The nice thing about living off of I-80 is that you are never the fastest person out there. The fuzz haven't given me a second glance in months.
Last Place I’d Want to Live: Oh, probably somewhere that's hot and humid without air conditioning.
Last Magazine Read: Outdoor. My sis-in-law calls it "surfer porn," but I swear I do occasionally read the articles.
Last Thing I Broke: I broke 55 minutes for 6 miles over the weekend, for the first time in a hella long time.
Last Thing I Fixed: Probably the columns on someone's Excel spreadsheet. All hail my Microsoft Office-fu.
Last Thing That Made Me Laugh: The Daily Show clips I was watching earlier.
Last Thing That Made Me Go Huh? There's always several things a day.
Last Thought: "I wonder if that'll go down the disposal."
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Monday, November 02, 2009
Heartwarming coming of age story
The NaNo update is that I am just shy of 10,000 words and calling it a day. I promised myself that if I got to 7500 by 7:00 I could skip the gym today. Plus, I had what some might consider a productive day at work with more (at least 2) to follow, which I find makes me less motivated for the gym.
Other random things I did not know: One of my favorite shows, "The Closer" is co-produced and occasionally written by the son of the guy who played Gul Dukat on DS9 (or as I like to call it: "Star Trek: Cardassians"). So, now that's stuck somewhere in your head forever too.
Or not, which reminds me of a conversation I had recently with the Beauty Queen, which I will not relate due to complete inappropriateness, but which touched upon how utterly hilarious (and inappropriate) we all plan to be once we're old and can get away with it.
Other random things I did not know: One of my favorite shows, "The Closer" is co-produced and occasionally written by the son of the guy who played Gul Dukat on DS9 (or as I like to call it: "Star Trek: Cardassians"). So, now that's stuck somewhere in your head forever too.
Or not, which reminds me of a conversation I had recently with the Beauty Queen, which I will not relate due to complete inappropriateness, but which touched upon how utterly hilarious (and inappropriate) we all plan to be once we're old and can get away with it.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
UNLEASH THE HOUNDS
Of all the random nonsense I have rolling around in my head, how could I have missed that the woman who sued Lee Marvin for palimony was shacked up with Dick Van Dyke for 30 years? Not that I go out of my way for this sort of stuff, but I would've assumed that it might've blipped across my radar just once in the past three decades.
Anyway, I'm still debating whether or not to stay up until midnight so I can get an appropriately insane start on National Novel Writing Month. The notion of writing through the DST change amuses me, but I suspect that around 11 I'm going to be more or less asleep.
Oh, right. Halloween. Um, do children still enjoy, ah, bags of frozen broccoli or canned fruit? Store-brand oatmeal packets? Hopefully no one makes it past the security door....
Anyway, I'm still debating whether or not to stay up until midnight so I can get an appropriately insane start on National Novel Writing Month. The notion of writing through the DST change amuses me, but I suspect that around 11 I'm going to be more or less asleep.
Oh, right. Halloween. Um, do children still enjoy, ah, bags of frozen broccoli or canned fruit? Store-brand oatmeal packets? Hopefully no one makes it past the security door....
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The one with all the embedded YouTube clips
I successfully fought off a cold this week through a combination of sex and awesomeness. Also, cough drops, sleep, and regular exercise.
The regular exercise is thanks to the feature of my apartment complex that I didn't even know about until I'd been here a few weeks. As I was walking back and forth to Target, I kept thinking, "Boy, it's too bad about this abandoned racquetball club/fitness center whose parking lot I have to walk through to get to Target." And then, as I was researching on-line for indoor pools, I find out that not only is this place not really abandoned, but just in a coming-out-of-bad-ownership phase. And the indoor pool? Very nice, very empty, and for an hour a day, very mine. I've also started running over there now that the weather has turned.
Speaking of internet research, on a scale of slightly off-putting to strange is the fact that reading "And the Sea Will Tell"* had me googling for "lake superior sailing schools"?
Baseball is almost over. I plan to spend the time until pitchers and catchers report again seeing if I can figure out the balk rule.
NaNoWriMo begins in a week. Once again, my novel is in transition. Once again, in a lovely twist, I will be spending a weekend in a Fargo-area hotel during NaNo, but entirely coincidentally. My brother is getting old the first weekend of November, so I'll be putting a bow on 14-hours of driving and giving it to him as a present (note: this is probably not a joke).
Happy Halloween.
*Yes, I know...there isn't good YouTube video for that one. But you get the point.
The regular exercise is thanks to the feature of my apartment complex that I didn't even know about until I'd been here a few weeks. As I was walking back and forth to Target, I kept thinking, "Boy, it's too bad about this abandoned racquetball club/fitness center whose parking lot I have to walk through to get to Target." And then, as I was researching on-line for indoor pools, I find out that not only is this place not really abandoned, but just in a coming-out-of-bad-ownership phase. And the indoor pool? Very nice, very empty, and for an hour a day, very mine. I've also started running over there now that the weather has turned.
Speaking of internet research, on a scale of slightly off-putting to strange is the fact that reading "And the Sea Will Tell"* had me googling for "lake superior sailing schools"?
Baseball is almost over. I plan to spend the time until pitchers and catchers report again seeing if I can figure out the balk rule.
NaNoWriMo begins in a week. Once again, my novel is in transition. Once again, in a lovely twist, I will be spending a weekend in a Fargo-area hotel during NaNo, but entirely coincidentally. My brother is getting old the first weekend of November, so I'll be putting a bow on 14-hours of driving and giving it to him as a present (note: this is probably not a joke).
Happy Halloween.
*Yes, I know...there isn't good YouTube video for that one. But you get the point.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Saturday, October 03, 2009
The Land of Sky Blue Waters
In two weeks time, I shall be back in the Motherland. L'etoile du Nord.
So, if you'd like to spend a weekend out at the farm with Push, Puck, The Host, and...um, various people without Internet nicknames, you should either contact Pusher for rideshare details, or me for directions.
Love to see you there! It's only 3 hrs from MSP! There will be beer!
ETA: The Beauty Queen and her Current Husband will also be in attendance, and I'd really love having someone back me up on the MASSIVE crush my Dad has on Puck. Seriously, you will get to witness how The Wall has been lovingly archived in the shop.
So, if you'd like to spend a weekend out at the farm with Push, Puck, The Host, and...um, various people without Internet nicknames, you should either contact Pusher for rideshare details, or me for directions.
Love to see you there! It's only 3 hrs from MSP! There will be beer!
ETA: The Beauty Queen and her Current Husband will also be in attendance, and I'd really love having someone back me up on the MASSIVE crush my Dad has on Puck. Seriously, you will get to witness how The Wall has been lovingly archived in the shop.
Monday, September 28, 2009
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