My 2008 Almanac

Here is the roundup for 2008: Writing Short fiction pieces started: 5 Short fiction pieces finished: 2 Novels started: 1 Novels finished: 0 Short fiction words: ~25,000 Novel words: 2,700 Total fiction: 27,700 words Story submissions: 3 Rewrite requests: 1 Rejections: 2 Outstanding: 1 Science fiction conventions: 2 Blog posts: 170,000 words Reading Total books: [...]

Lego Star Wars

Productive work day today.  It was one of those days where I told myself that I was going to solve a particular problem before I left the office, and sure enough, shortly after lunch, I had the problem solved.  I was pleased with that. I had leftovers for dinner and steamed some broccoli for Kelly to go along with [...]

Catching up

Vacation has put me a few days behind on the blog, but I am catching up and the backdated posts should appear this morning.  Keeping up on Facebook was easier because I didn’t have to depend on wireless connections while I was gone.  Incidentally, speaking of Facebook, thanks to Doug, I go reconnected with a high school [...]

Warm Sunday

It was near 70 degrees here in the Metro DC area today–unusual for late December, to say the least.  It was almost like we were back in Florida.  I slept in until about 8:30 or so.  But we still managed to get an early start on our day.  First, we headed over to the Apple [...]

Travel day

It was a long travel day.  We left Kelly’s parents at 9 AM and made the 2 hour drive up to Tampa.  Our flight was delayed an hour and so we had lunch at the airport, watched some videos on the iPod, and finally boarded the plane for home.  The airport in Tampa was empty, but [...]

‘Twas the day after Christmas…

Today was a relaxing, lazy day.  First off, it was very hot out, well over 80 degrees, and that just made me feel sluggish throughout the day.  I didn’t do much.  Kelly and I did head over to the nearby mall and wandered around in the heat until we couldn’t take it anymore.  And although [...]

Christmas Day, 2008

We were up early and even Logan was up early in anticipation of opening presents this morning.  As always, it was a lot of fun.   I got Kelly some Christmas movies that she was missing (Elf, and some Charlie Brown Christmas cartoons).  I also got her this little silver elephant whose prehensile trunk can be used [...]

Christmas eve-day writing

I got some writing done, sitting out on the lanai after lunch today. I did about 555 words. I decided to add a preface that sets a better overall context for the novel and that’s what I wrote today. I’m pretty happy with it. As things stand: Total words: 2,591 | This session: 555 | [...]

Happy Birthday strausmouse, etc.

First, a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY shout out to strausmouse .  For your birthday, I give you warmer weather than you’ve been having lately. You can thank me later. Etc.: I know, it’s been a few days.  I’ve had intermittent wireless access and limited time.  Nevertheless, I’ve got the backdated posts  mostly written and should get them posted shortly. [...]

Writing today

I did 700 words of the first chapter of the new novel (at some point, I realize I’ll have to stop calling it the "new" novel). I did it in under 45 minutes which is a very good pace for me. Still all first draft, but I was happy with what I got done. I [...]

Florida, Day 2

Our only "full" day at Treasure Island.  It was gorgeous weather today.  We were up early, and around 9 AM, we headed out for what turned out to be a 3.5 mile walk on the beach.  We lazed around in the morning, and then headed to a local boardwalk at lunch time.  We at ate [...]

Florida, Day 1

Smooth travel day today.  We headed to the airport at 6 AM.  We’d already checked in and just had to check out bags, head through a short security line, and catch the "mobile lounge" to the D gates.  We stopped at Dunkin’ Donuts for a snack, and got to the gate just in time to [...]

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