Monday writing

Just completed more revisions on the second draft of "Depression" baby.  The edits totaled about 300 words.  I’d guess I’m about 75% of the way done and it’s possible I could finish up this draft tomorrow evening.  Still likely to be close to 5,000 words when all is said and done. 

The Oscars

I’m disappointed in the outcome of last night’s Academy Awards.  Perhaps part of the reason is that I saw only three of the pictures up for awards: Vicky Christina Barcelona The Dark Knight The Wrestler Of the three movies, The Wrestler was far and away the standout of the batch, and Mickey Rourke’s performance in the [...]

“By convention”

The previous post reminded me of something that happened in 7th grade pre-algebra: Someone (perhaps me) asked the teacher one day why we used x to represent an unknown quantity.  Without hesitation, the teacher answered, "By convention."  He then moved on to solve 2x+6 = 16, or whatever the equation was we were working with. [...]

The source of quirky habits

I was packing my lunch this morning and realized that I was moving out of the turkey phase and back to the peanut butter and jelly phase.  As I set about making my PB&J sandwich, I had the following little daydream: I am preparing Zachary’s lunch for school.  He is standing beside me, head reaching to my hip, watching [...]

Workout #14 (Cardio)

I think the trick is not going to bed too early.  I called it a night around 9:15 PM and was up at 3:20 AM, but I lingered in bed until 3:45, which for some reason, seemed more reasonable.  Had some cereal and juice and then spent nearly an hour reading.  Then it was off to the [...]

Sunday writing

Just finished about 700 words on the rewrite (second draft) of "Depression Baby".  Some of the time was spent cleaning up the first couple of scenes, which actually read better than I remembered them.  I’m breaking the longer scenes down into smaller segments because I think it helps with the pacing of the story.  Regardless, the story [...]

Offline Sunday

I’ve been trying to spend my Sunday’s offline–disconnected from Internets, phones, TV, etc.  I did pretty good today, with one or two small exceptions.  I had another busy day planned and I did pretty good: Did the grocery shopping for the week Completed all of the paperwork I need to submit to our accountant for tax season Prepared [...]

Forward progress, part 1

I did pretty good at sticking to the schedule I planned for today.  There’s a lot to get done this weekend and I felt like I needed a schedule and list to help get it all done in the time I’ve got. I slept pretty well last night.  When I went to go to bed, two of the cats [...]

Workout #13 (Arms/shoulders)

I had a busy day planned today and I wanted to make sure to get an early start.  I was up at 7 AM, made scrambled eggs for breakfast and then headed over to the gym just after 8 AM for my arms/shoulders workout.  I lifted 13,400 pounds, which was almost 1,000 pounds better than my last arms/shoulders workout.  Last [...]

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Meme for a Friday morning: 44 odd things

(Posted via LiveJournal) 44 ODD Things about you! If you opened this, FILL IT OUT! Learn 44 things about your friends, and let them learn 44 things about you! Tag the person that sent it plus others. Do you like blue cheese? I’m indifferent. Have you ever been drunk? Yes Do you own a gun? [...]

History will teach us nothing

While reading Frederik Pohl’s autobiography, The Way the Future Was last night, I was struck by the following remarks he made in the first chapter: Hoover did not plant the seeds [of the Great Depression], they were sown over the boom years of the 20s, in easy credit buying and mad stock swindles I realize that [...]

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