November 2011
Successes →
1. I personally solved a number of the issues with my new computer this weekend, like why Windows Update wasn’t working. I googled the error message and went to the MS forums, where I read pages of…
November 26th →
1. I have my new computer. Five hours into my work shift (and, bear in mind, I have been doing air traffic control; the computer set up is on my breaks) and I am almost done getting it the way I…
Black Friday →
1. Apparently people shot at and pepper-sprayed each other last night and this morning in an effort to buy things cheaply at various Wal-mart stores. I think that, as a measure of social unease and…
Thanksgiving Day, 2011 →
I’m reading Glen Wheldon’s #ThanksgivingBingo tweets as I work and wait for my extended family to arrive for dinner. Such remarks as:
The casual racism of nonagenarians. #ThanksgivingBingo
Nodding…
Fights and sex →
Writing about them, that is.
In this last scene I wrote, I noticed a few things. That the fight takes place between two characters. That they each keep taking actions against the other person’s…
Many brief things, in a list. →
1. Apparently someone made fraudulent charges on my debit card. This was caught quickly, thank goodness, but now I have no debit card for a while. This is tedious.
2. I will call my credit union…
November 17th update →
1. Yesterday M dressed as the event horizon of a black hole. Today may be flood, or blizzard, depending on what laundry is clean.
2. I am holding at par on NaNoWriMo. It looks like the story will…
November 14th. →
1. Today M is dressed like a tsunami. Yesterday was a tornado, and Saturday, a lava flow. Tomorrow will be flood.
2. I have had a hideous sore throat all day. This makes me whiny.
3. I watched the…
Not the day I intended, really, but there you have... →
1. I had today off, because it is a holiday!
2. The banks are closed, impeding one of my errands, namely, go to the bank.
3. I have had a chai eggnog latte (no espresso) every day this week, and…
The writing process, let me show it to you. →
1. I finally made it all of the way through the new Florence and the Machine album, Ceremonials. This took a while not because I dislike it, but because I have been thinking out novel plot points…
The Pretty Reckless, and my day. →
1. I am still behind the optimal word count for today for NaNoWriMo, but I have more time later tonight. I am still enjoying these characters, and that’s pretty darn awesome.
2. My kids have a…
Velveteen Vs. and Monday’s NaNoWriMo →
1. The rewards for making word count are stacking up. There’s apparently and adorable concert documentary from Le Tigre on NetFlix Streaming. Also, I am only about halfway through Seanan McGuire’s
Sometimes, I wonder how I got dressed →
1. We have winter mice. The mice that prefer to overwinter in our house, well, we have a new crop of them. We live-trap them, and release them. The thing is, we have to drive them some distance…
Nov 3rd state of things →
1. I may just date these all, because I expect I’ll be posting a bit about NaNoWriMo, and that’s going to mean more posting in November. But as I will still retain my practice of shmushing…
Nov 2nd state of things →
1. The presenters on the BBC are all wearing poppies, making me have to go look up when Armistice Day is. NEXT WEEK, I was not wrong.
2. The kids have been great recently. They are pretty awesome…
