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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Knitting progress

I promised acorn hat and sock pictures after the big political post, so here they are: One of these things is not like the other. I managed to do one sock with one less stitch than the other, but I cannot believe it would make this big a difference! I

NaNoWriMo 2004

Working on my roadmap for NaNoWriMo. I have a general plot and I'm inventing subplots as I go, each of the four main sections ends with a big crisis. According to the roadmap, I have a great start, and need to work on the ending. I completely forgot

Testing...

This is the NaNoWriMo progress graph Hubby wrote for me, using these figures: * Day one 1000 words * Day two 1000 words * Day three 2000 words * Day four 2000 words * Day five 1667 words * Day six 2000 words * Day seven zero words * Day eight 2500 words It's a PNG

I'm insane

Fifty thousand words in a month. 12,500 words a week or more. I've signed up for NaNoWriMo 2004, National Novel Writing Month. The novel idea has been around for a while in my head, but languishing and wordless. I've got three weeks to work on

What She Said?

From What She Said, posted September 26th: As Barbara O'Brien pointed out, there are essentially three female blogospheres: Progressive, Conservative and Personal Diarists. All three are valid pursuits, of course, but combined they would comprise a huge and unmanageable blogroll. There has to be some categorization if the

Starbucks caffeine content

Nutrition Action Caffeine Corner lists how much caffeine is in various drinks. Starbucks coffee has way more caffeine in than any other drink, and more than caffeine pills. Scary stuff. I grew up in a tea drinking house, two cups with every meal, and another couple mid-afternoon, up to eight

Knitting round up

Sehlat's sock greatly benefited from nearly three hours at the dentist Saturday morning while Hubby got savaged by the drill (Things you don't want to hear at the dentist #39 "I've never seen that before!") I should be starting the toe this

Snippets

(End of month is horribly busy at work.) Go read this if you write: Ten mistakes writers don't see, link via Jordon Cooper. I'm wondering what my crutch words are. I think wonder might be one of them. Library book '100 years overdue' It

Core values

Australian Evangelical Alliance Election site lists these core social values (link via connexions via Bene Diction). * Grace - a subversive value! Giving people more than they deserve. * Hope - not a guarantee of immunity from harm but a conviction that God is always present * Faith - the means to real

Minus and plus

Some stupid smoker set fire to my best friend's house Saturday night! WHEN will people figure out that tossing a smouldering thing onto dry stuff is likely to start a fire? That cigarette butts are not only litter, they are smouldering, stinking litter? That it's dangerous

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