Last night, I caught Jarhead on HBO and afterward found myself thinking that I wanted to be a Marine. Don’t get me wrong, this is not unique to either the movie, or the subject of the film. I often find myself wishing I was whatever it was that I was just watching on some interesting…
I was up around 8 AM and had a nice big breakfast. I thought about doing some more work on the book collection database, but I decided instead to spend the day reading. I have yet to complete my third book for the year and January is almost over. Three books! Compare that to, say,…
The place that I get my haircut is in the same shopping center as my gym, so after my workout, I stopped in to get my haircut and I feel much better having done so. When the haircut was done, I decided I needed to eat something, so I headed over to Chevy’s (also in…
I wrote about 700 words of “Stairway to Heaven” this afternoon, and while I was working out, the story structure began to fall into place. I think it can be a good story, but I am trying to keep this one pretty short; under 6,000 words if I can manage it.
I headed over to the gym in Greenbelt just before 3:30 PM and it wasn’t all that crowded, which was nice. (It was also warm out, relative to the last couple of days. Yesterday morning it was in the single digits; this afternoon, in the 50s.) Today was arm and shoulder day.
I went to happy hour after work last night with several people from work. We went to Chammps and we were there until just about 8 PM. I was home just before 9 PM and I tried to read for a little while but I was pretty tired and I went to bed soon after.…
I came across this cool writing program called Scrivner, which I am trying for 30 days to see how well it really works. I was interested in it because it has the index card “story-boarding” feature built in. (I use index cards extensively for my stories.) It focuses on content and it exports to various…
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The last line of today’s Dilbert Blog by Scott Adams is priceless.
When last I was in New York, I walked one evening down 2nd Avenue with Jen, Jason and Jenn on our way back to Jen and Jason’s apartment. While walking, we passed by Elaine’s and I, said “Hey, isn’t that Elaine’s from the Billy Joel song?” But I couldn’t remember which song it was (I…
Up at 4:30 and into the gym by 5:50 AM. Workout #42 is special, of course, because 42 is the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. So in honor of that, I took it a little easy on the cardio workout this morning. Also, I didn’t listen to my regular cardio…
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