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Pondering

Some thoughts on the season. There's a nice photo under the reams of text. Gifts I like giving gifts, and I like receiving them, but I hate the obligation to give gifts. Shopping in December is a madhouse even when you just want cat food, everyone's

Catching up

All sorts of things get pushed off during November. Now it's December (when did that happen? I'm not ready!). Knit I finished a pair of socks for Heather for Christmas, pattern is a modification of Monkey with a toe-up heel-flap and a rolled brim. Did some

Purple Belt!

I took the test for my karate purple belt at Tracy's Karate in Kirkwood on Wednesday 25th November. The test was at 8pm, which gave me all day to get nervous. Today just didn't seem right without a quick run through of my Long Two kata

NaNoWriMo week 4

Had a few off days, then stayed at home while Paul went to the St Louis Night of Writing Dangerously, from 5pm to 11pm at MoKaBees. I can't do late nights, but I did get 4165 words done and hauled myself back on track for my 60k story.

Fireflies

I heard this song on the radio last week and loved it. Loved it! Fireflies by Owl City You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep, 'cause they fill the open air and leave teardrops everywhere you'd

NaNoWriMo week 3

This is a longer story than I expected. Normally I plan out a 50k novel, broken into twelve 4200 word chapters. My chapters are anywhere from 4700 to 5300 and I haven't resorted to adding poems, song lyrics, or other obvious padding to the story. Sorted out the

NaNoWriMo Week 2

Crossed the 25k mark this week, but I haven't quite got to the halfway point of the story, that's another few thousand words away. I have a nasty suspicion this one wants to be quite a bit longer than 50k. Characters are turning out a lot

Novelling away

There's a point in NaNoWriMo where you're trucking along writing your story, and one of the characters does something unexpected. You don't know where the words came from but you just typed them and they weren't in the plot, or even in

Workspace

This is where I spend a lot of time, my desk in the craft room: The bay window lets in the afternoon sun and my IKEA desk matches the shape of the window, we stained it together in the new garage. Still a novelty that, we have a garage and

Healthcare comparisons

UK NHS healthcare has been in the news a lot recently: potential new computer-based insomnia treatment, a horrible lack of domiciliary care and patient horror stories in response, online therapy for depression, and the use of continuous deep sedation as a possible alternative to illegal euthanasia. The insomnia article and

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