so far today
...got up this morning. caught a 7: 30 bus downtown and another to tacoma. checked in to make sure i had the right appointment time. i thought it was 11;30 and i was right. went to shakabrah and got breakfast. was confounded trying to run some errands and then went back to the clinic. got a brief checkup, a refill on perscriptions and a tetanus vaccination (i had no idea you're supposed to renew those about once every ten years as a grownup!).
got downtown about noon and to olympia about 1:30 or so. went out to westfield mall. got a new wallet because my (many years') old one is literally falling apart and i've started to worry about losing id or credit cards or business cards or other things that are a hassle to get again. got some earphones for the laptop and true crime book that is research for a series of novels i'm thinking of writing....
(god that sounds retarded. if i had a buck for every series of novels someone was writing, i'd take the whole damn friends list out for dinner. i take some consolation from the fact that--while everybody i know who write much of anything has published more fiction than me (zero), my hundreds of articles and tens of thousands of dollars remind me i didn't just fall off the cabbage truck)
[edited to add]: ( obviously, these tens of thousands of dollars were spread out over a loooonnng time. it's not like i have them now or anything....!)
found the russo book along with a manuscript compiling several short stories, two or three poems and a novella i churned out many moons ago (i had some beers with the velociraptors to celebrate when i finished, if memory serves!). the evergreen literary journal is accepting submissions via e-mail through today and i hope to get something in).
i have homework to take care of, first, though. so something may have to fall by the wayside....
...oh, and finale opens my midi files from logic express just fine--as opposed to the freeware/shareware crap i've been stuck with. that's why you spend the big bucks.
(...mentally, i am sitting in an egg-shaped, cut-away, stroking a white long-haired cat as i type that last....)
got downtown about noon and to olympia about 1:30 or so. went out to westfield mall. got a new wallet because my (many years') old one is literally falling apart and i've started to worry about losing id or credit cards or business cards or other things that are a hassle to get again. got some earphones for the laptop and true crime book that is research for a series of novels i'm thinking of writing....
(god that sounds retarded. if i had a buck for every series of novels someone was writing, i'd take the whole damn friends list out for dinner. i take some consolation from the fact that--while everybody i know who write much of anything has published more fiction than me (zero), my hundreds of articles and tens of thousands of dollars remind me i didn't just fall off the cabbage truck)
[edited to add]: ( obviously, these tens of thousands of dollars were spread out over a loooonnng time. it's not like i have them now or anything....!)
found the russo book along with a manuscript compiling several short stories, two or three poems and a novella i churned out many moons ago (i had some beers with the velociraptors to celebrate when i finished, if memory serves!). the evergreen literary journal is accepting submissions via e-mail through today and i hope to get something in).
i have homework to take care of, first, though. so something may have to fall by the wayside....
...oh, and finale opens my midi files from logic express just fine--as opposed to the freeware/shareware crap i've been stuck with. that's why you spend the big bucks.
(...mentally, i am sitting in an egg-shaped, cut-away, stroking a white long-haired cat as i type that last....)