1339 Words

1339 Words. If you count the paper I finished writing for school earlier, that puts me closer to 2300 words for the day.

Fiction was a little chunk of background thought process, but mostly the start of the next day in the series SF story I'm working on. Guess I'll need to get some kind of title for it so I'm not so vague.

Day 1 of keeping track. Good start. Little accountability is a good thing. Feel free to post a WTF where's the words post if you see me skip a day. The goal is 1k a day.

Been reading Chuck Wendig lately over at Terrible Minds. It's a good blog, a lot of writing stuff there. A lot of butt kicking goes on there, which is what prompted me to start actually keeping track rather than just saying I'm going to write "lots". If you're into PnP gaming or writing, or like a little twisted humor, check him out.

Also signed up with Dropbox for all my backup online storage needs. You get 2 gig free. I'm happy with it so far, plenty to back up my writing. Check it out if you need something like that. I also have the ipod app so I can sync it there too.

Ahhh... That's more like it.

Wrote on my lunch today. It's good to be the producer rather than the consumer. I like where the story is going, At an action part, which always seems to flow the best. More to come later.

Busy Busy

Busy weekend.

My son's 4th birthday party was this weekend. He and his friends had a great time at E2 Toy to Try. And He got a ton of legos, so we had a good time building some of those when we got home. His grandmother got him Darth Vader's Tie Fighter, which is really cool. Had fun putting that together for him.

Sunday we got a new dryer, so finally getting caught back up on some laundry.

Didn't read anything or write this weekend. Played a little Warhammer Online and Left 4 Dead. Man that game was brtual. Anyone ahve suggesttions for a good co-op game for my wife and I to play? She's not much into shooters, but any other suggestions would be welcome.

Need to rectify the lack of writing, but school has been keeping me so busy I haven't been feeling it. Once the kids have gone up to bed, it's been either homework or just chilling with a video game.

Musically, enjoying Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. and Nirvana - Live at Reading. The Nirvana disk is pretty much every great song they have. I highly recommend it. The End is great too. Only song I can say I don't like on that is Party All The Time (which gets a "well duh" from me). Also snagged the Halo 3 soundtrack, which I'm assuming will be great to write to once I get back to that.

Finally, a bracket I care about...

Yes, it's getting close to that time again. I'm already hearing all the rampant chatter around the office. So I decided this year I'd have a bracket of my own, you know for stuff that actually matters. So, here it is:

So you ask...

What have I been up to lately?

I have gone to great lengths to overwhelm myself. Yes, that was entirely the goal. And it's succeeding! Go me. I started classes last fall at a local community college working toward a Software Development degree. Last semester was just one class, Biology. I was late getting to registration and there wasn't much left. This semester, I decided to take 4 classes, two "easy" and two I knew I'd have to work at. School has always come easily to me and I don't want to be dragging a 2 year degree out to 4 years. My two "easy" classes are easy, but it's still a good chunk of work.

So what else has kept me busy? Still working full time. The kids are doing great (it's no longer safe to spell words around my daughter). And my wife decided it was time I got an XBox 360. I resisted getting this for a long time. Why you ask? Because I love it! The great thing about getting it so long after the release is that all the games I have wanted to play are dirt cheap at Gamestop. Picked up Halo 3, Fable II, Gears of War 2, and Left 4 Dead 1. And there are still plenty more games I want to grab.

Also been taking the time to read lately. There has been a book here or there lately, but I haven't really made much time for reading. Have started reading The Dwarves by Markus Heitz and Heinlein's To Sail Beyond the Sunset. Also reading Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb from my wife's e-reader.

I almost stopped reading The Dwarves. There was a prologue, and it really wasn't catching me. But I love dwarves, so I pressed on. 150 pages in now and enjoying it quite a bit.

Sunset is great so far. This is the first Heinlein I've read besides Starship Troopers. But I felt like there was a gap in my SF reading and found this one so snatched it up.

Haven't gotten far into Assassin's Apprentice yet, but I think I'll like it once I do.

My wife is currently going through the Dresden Files on her e-reader, so I'm sure I'll be getting to that shortly too.

I was thinking there was something else too, but I can't think of it right now. I'll go through them in more depth later.

Look at me, an abundance of time on my hands

Yeah, right. (haha, I originally used write instead.) Unfortunately, I've neglected this page for too long. I think that is because I've tried to keep it mostly focused on writing, and that's not all I've been doing. (And yes, I should be doing more writing.)

So my plan is to open this up a bit, comment on movies, games and whatever else catches my interest. Have started getting into some podcasts lately, and I'd like to comment on that too. Perhaps not overly innovative for a blog, but stuff I enjoy, so that's how it's going to work.

I'll see you when I come up for air...

Writing.

testing this out from igoogle

I had tried igoogle before, but not really played with it. It is really slick. With one window I can check gmail, google reader, facebook, livejournal, and twitter. And update my blogspot blog. So far, I'm pretty happy with it.

Bingo Story

Well, it was rejected at the first spot. Sent it to Strange Horizons now. Who knows what will happen. On the plus side of things, I didn't write about anything they said they'd seen too much of.

Spam Poetry

This poem brought to you courtesy of my spam email subjects. Enjoy!

Come check boobs
The air around you will smell like love.
Who was he?
Horrible news from the white house
Medications that you need.

I have no doubt more poetry will surface in the future.