From the monthly archives: March 2011
So the long scrape of March ends, with the insult-to-injury day, the Thirty-First. As if thirty days of March is an insufficient ration. April brings the usual hope, and more: tomorrow I order the new gazebo. Stay tuned for horrors.
The penultimate ration of March had its pleasures; had coffee this morning with a [...]
Several times today I’ve removed my jacket while wearing earbuds. Some sort of static electrical charge is generated by the motion of my arms through the sleeves, and it goes right up the wires into my ears. Not a pleasant sensation; like the auditory version of chewing tinfoil on fillings. I wonder what the brain [...]
Last month I gave you a picture of the sad ignored late-60s / early 70s bathroom coatrack in the vestibule of the office bathroom. Today: it has a purpose. It holds things.
I have no idea why someone brought a Mason jar to work, let along brought it to the bathroom.
Outside [...]
I was here.
And now I’m back. It was a nice trip. A long week. Sat in the sun, spent time with all the relatives, had dinner here and then dinner there. Went to the Museum of Musical Instruments, a magnificent establishment lavishly funded by a Target exec.
It was [...]
Looks like I’ll finish it this weekend, all right: completed the big slam-bang action chapter last night, and it was grand; I was exhausted when it was done, sore in the shoulders from tensing up for an hour, and exhilarated when finished, unable to sleep. Read it today, and it was just what I wanted [...]
Have finished the big action chapter. More about that tomorrow. Right now, I need sleep: been writing for hours and my shoulders are killing me.
Also: couldn’t be happier with how it went. There are the times when you’re slapping your characters around to do something and BE MORE INTERESTING, although that hasn’t happened in [...]
As noted, this is a sorta-kinda hiatus week, as I am taking some time off from work, kid’s out of school, and I am finishing the novel this week. Today’s brief note: I was sitting in a doctor’s waiting room, fiddling around on the iPad (using Zite, which is a fine, fine iPad newsreader). Seated [...]
Okay, still on novel-writing vacation, but no reason I can’t check in. Today: Glory and Despair! Glory because: this was a furlough day for work. We have to take a number of unpaid days to balance the books, and I’m overdue. Posted to the work blog just to keep it current and alive, then did [...]
Spring break! No, I’m not in Disneyworld. I wish. Hanging out in all the old familiar places, including the Strib blog and the columns and whatnot; just not here so very much. Because:
It’s novel completion week. I’ve never set myself a task like this, but here it is. Right now I’m in the home [...]
Seen at a gas station today. Liberty, perhaps, to go overboard on typefaces:
Hahahahah! I didn’t have to have my wisdom teeth out after all!
Well, not exactly. I did. Years ago. Glad they’re out. But it turns out that the primary factor for the bright sparkly discomfort was the item dislodged [...]
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