NaNoLOL
I'd totally forgotten about the NanoCat Word Counter. (Because it is very important to see my word count in as many forms as humanly possible.)
This is why I was very happy to see that the widgets are finally working today. Well, mostly working. There seems to be a bit of decimal issue with the full progress reports, but it's not a big deal. Unfortunately, I discovered that, despite my doing my own math, I actually missed my word count yesterday by 14 words. Fourteen. Words.
Is this really a big deal? Well, okay, no. But I like to see those little green squares/bars/fields instead of the red ones, and it niggles me that I was 14 words short of that magic green yesterday, despite over producing by four hundred or so words just to be sure I'd made my goal.
I know how it happened. 50,000 / 30 * 5 = 8,333, and yesterday's total was 8,724. I was, therefore, ahead of the minimum pace of 1,667 words a day. In fact, according to today's progress report, I only need to hit 1,650 a day to finish. Yesterday, that mark was 1,654 [The year of Christopher Marlowe's birth! Exciting!]. How many words did I actually write yesterday? 1,640. So, despite being ahead of the minimum pace required to finish, I still didn't get my little green status. Dammit.
And yet, I have still managed to crack 10,000 words. :)