It’s a “date”

When they say that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, I always assumed that it was a symbol assignment (men being assigned to the god of War and woman being assigned to the goddess of love). Apparently it means something else. I have recently learned for instance, that there are at least [...]

Protected: Pope takes a shot at atheism

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I’m ready to give up on TV and TiVo

Last night, when I could have been writing, I sat in front of the TV for a few hours and watched stuff TiVo had recorded for me. This says more about me than it does TV or TiVo, but I felt like crap by the time I went to bed and I more or less [...]

Up for air

Fourth day in a row in which I’ve gone into my office, closed my door and worked without taking a break. Today, I didn’t stop until after 2 PM, and then it was only to get something to eat before moving on to some document review I needed to do. I’m now wrapping things up [...]

Wednesday lunch writing

I managed to squeeze in about 800 words during lunch today. The target for the day is 3,000 words so I did just over a quarter of my target. I’ll have some more time between 4 and 5 PM and may be able to squeeze in another 500-1,000 words. The scene I am currently working [...]

Smiles

The last two mornings I have been extremely focused at work. This morning, for instance, I tossed my backpack on my meeting table chair, sat down at the computer, and without prelude, started right in on a number of tasks I wanted to get done. I worked for nearly 4 hours straight, with the office [...]

Tuesday evening writing

By now I’m fairly certain that I won’t hit the 50,000 word mark by midnight on Friday. However, I have a plan to continue the novel regardless. My new goal is to be at around 30,000 words by the end of this month, 60,000 words by the end of December, and 90,000 words by the [...]

Flu shot

Just back from getting my flu shot. They were much more efficient about it this year than in previous years. I had an appointment for 11:45 AM. I went up at 11:40 with my check already made out. Filled out a form, sat down, got the shot, got a receipt and left. I was back [...]

Banning Wikipedia (for rmstraus)

Yesterday, Ken Jennings had an blog post about how schools are starting to ban wikipedia use. He makes some good points. I agree with them and reiterate them here with some of my own thoughts added. Ken points out that this is really nothing new. Teachers have been telling students not to use the encyclopedia [...]

Dirt!

Yesterday, Kelly came over at about 11 AM. We ran out to Target to do some shopping and I got the crazy idea to make Dirt. I used my iPhone to look up the recipe and we got all of the necessary ingredients and then headed back home (I also stopped to buy some new [...]

Reading is fundamental

Each year, my company does it’s annual campaign for giving, where it encourages employees to make donations through a variety of charities. I usually have my own list that I work off of each year, many of which I have previously noted. However, this year, since I am trying to increase the amount in which [...]

Red eyes

[Written on 11/26/2007] I took the red eye back from LAX last night. Doug, Rachel and Dad dropped me off at LAX at about 8 PM (and even thought PCH was closed due to the Malibu fires, we hit no traffic on the way to the airport, which came as a mild surprise). There was [...]

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