So, it's only Day 6 of 2009 and already I'm ahead of the game this time last year.

So far, I've purchased 5 books (Jim C. Hines' The Stepsister Scheme arriving tomorrow). I've also finished reading Gail Z. Martin's The Blood King, which I quite enjoyed. And I'm now halfway through Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself, which really kicks ass so far ( Read more... )

We moved back up north after living down in the deep south for about 5 years. I've been lucky in that I've managed to be able to have a room set aside for my office. In my day job I'm a Network Admin - which means I can be called upon to work at any time -- so the office juggles as a place where I can remote into work, as well as study up on new ( Read more... )

So, with the year winding down I took a few minutes out this morning to count the number of books I've purchased this year:

Grand Total: 53 ( Read more... )

So, I finished NaNo with just over 60,000 words. I feel pretty good about that but I'm still only halfway through this story. So, as I mentioned before, I will be NaNoing in December as well. My goal is to finish this first draft by New Years ( Read more... )

So, today is one of the big US holidays of the year. Luckily for me no traveling is involved. It's stay at home with the day off from work (I actually took this week off) with tons of food eating later on.

As I'm also doing NaNo for the first time today also included some writing. Today has produced about 3000 words bringing my NaNo total to:



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