Destination: Unknown

Once upon a time, Hitler was a baby. His mother probably passed him around to friends and relatives, who would coo at him and tickle him and exclaim over his giggles. Then he got older. He was a toddler and a little boy who got excited about showing off his toys. The same is true about men like Gordon B. Hinckley and Abraham Lincoln.

I've thought about this before, but the concept struck me with a little more force yesterday after I spent some time with my cousin's little boys. You really can't look at a baby and know where he is going to end up. For me, I can't very well imagine either of my cousin's sons to end up as Hitler or Hinckley, but I can see them as ordinary young men- nice guys who try to do good. Then again, I doubt Lincoln's relatives imagined he would end up president of the United States when he was a toddler.

Blog Apologies

In a book I read recently, the narrator says something about how she used to visit blogs a lot, then stopped because they were all mostly apologies for not updating more frequently. I have never done that on this blog. Then again, I don't exactly have a large audience to apologize to. But none of the blogs I look at spend much time apologizing, either. So who has the stranger blog experience- me or the narrator in the book I read?

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.