No Cool Title Yet

It has been way too long since I updated this thing.

I am almost done with my NaNovel. I have neglected a couple of subplots recently, so I am working on those a bit today. And I can always fill in the gaps later. Because November is not for editing. Quantity over quality is the name of the game.

I took time off work last Saturday to watch the BYU-Utah football game. Most of the game was slow and, dare I say, sort of boring, but the last couple of minutes made up for it. I am quite pleased with the outcome. Go Cougars!

Our Christmas tree is up, and the house is mostly decorated. Unfortunately, I have nowhere to put my wreath, and I do not know where I put my nativity scene, but I guess I can live without putting those out until I get a place of my own.

NaNo Update and Other Fun Stuff

Well, things are going fairly well in Nanoland for me. I have a main plot, about three subplots, and a good feeling for several of my characters. For someone who started with two stick characters on November 1st, this is pretty encouraging. And as of this second, I have written 7,779 words and am about halfway through today's minimum count.

I guess I never mentioned my birthday. It wasn't terribly exciting, to be honest. So maybe it should stay unmentioned.

I haven't been getting as many hours at work as I used to. We are only allowed 1,040 hours in one year, and I think my hour cutdown has to do with me approaching my limit. I don't know whether I'm sad or glad about this development.

I recently downloaded the Yahoo! instant messanger to my laptop. I have a whole four people in my contacts, only one of whom I actually IM. Maybe someday I'll add some more.

Yeah, so that was a very boring post. Sorry. I thought I had more going on in my life.

NaNoWhatMo?

This post is being written on my brand-new laptop. I got home from work today, and there it was.

Well, right now it is more of a family room floor top. But I will be using it as an actual laptop quite a bit next month. That is because of Nanowrimo.

November is National Novel Writing Month, abbreviated Nanowrimo. The goal? To write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. Last year, over 70,000 people participated. This year, I join them. And I identified a perfect time to insert some writing time. When I go to work, I ride the train. When I come home from work, I ride the train. I don't do much during these trips becides daydream, or sometimes read a novel to keep people from bothering me when I want to be left alone. There is a full hour to an hour and a half of uninterrupted writing time in one day, if I bring my computer along.

In The Beginning

Lately it seems as if everybody has been getting a blog. Well, mostly my sisters and cousins and my mom. So I decided that if I wanted to be one of the cool kids, I should get one, too.

But my life isn't really exciting right now so I see no need to share this with anyone. To put it on private just turns this into an e-journal, though, and I have a journal that works perfectly well already. I don't really need another.

So, I decided to make a public blog, tell no one about it, and see if anyone happens by as an experiment


And if anyone does end up reading this, hello.

Success

I wanted to see if I could publish something this far in the past and it worked. I thought it probably would, but was slightly worried that it would decide to save it for 2086.

I couldn't even manage going back to last week in WordPress.

Also, I was born. Cool, huh?