Been hella busy, kids. November is National Novel Writing Month, and despite misgivings prior to and during said month, plus general confusion about a project, I finally settled in on something and cruised home to my goal of 50K words in 30 days yesterday by punching the clock at 51,252 words around 4:30pm yesterday. Go me. I am awesome. One of ( Read more... )

Just turned down a job from a blues music web site this week. I didn't like saying no, but although it was a paying gig, it just wasn't enough for the hours I was going to have to put into it. It seems like at a time when I'm looking for money in couch cushions that I should take whatever is handed to me, but I could get any number of jobs that ( Read more... )

I did NaNo again this year. I just finished my story. It's 50,493 words. I wrote 17 thousand of those in the last two days. It's less of an accomplishment when you figure I had tons of daylight hours in which to do that, but still, pretty awesome. It's a rickety thing, held together with lots of bailing wire and duct tape, plus probably a few ( Read more... )

I had to show the boss an outline for some software instruction that we are developing. It's all me, dudes. This is my Big Project for the foreseeable future, so I'm kinda nervous (really, really, really) about it. Boss said, "This looks good." That means it was good. Boss did not say anything negative. It's important I write that, because ( Read more... )

Holy cramtabulous frack, y'all! I got a new job!!!! I GOT A NEW JOB!!! WOOHOO ( Read more... )

I had a nice weekend this weekend. I spent the majority of it practicing guitar. Sometimes I feel like doing that is "fooling around and wasting time," but R pointed out that "If it's something that you really want to do, then it's important." Actually, she made it sound cooler, but basically that was the gist of it ( Read more... )

First off, why the hell is there no water pressure in the bathrooms at the office. Secondly, how in the hell is it even remotely possible that management hasn't realized that only the barest of a trickle of moisture falls from the tap after the turning of a handle? Dudes, get the shit fixed! And while you're at it, how about we have some hot ( Read more... )

The last few months of 2010 whipped by in a ridiculous frenzy. I've still not gotten it into my head that NaNoWriMo ownz mie sole during November, and that if I have unfinished business on October 31st, it's almost guaranteed that biz will still be around and unfinished come December 1st. December, thusly, ended up being a *wee bit* hectic. ( more )

Check it out, dudes!!!! The August 2010 issue of Skive Magazine - the vampire issue! http://www.skivemagazine.com/ The story is titled "Luna." I'll not really go into what it's about, save that it's obviously about fanged people ( Read more... )

All right, kids, time to put another notch in the handle, or maybe on the keyboard, I guess. I just got my third writing submission fired out into the ether a little while ago. That's three in three months. I must be going for some kind of record ( Read more... )