Author: Don

• 08:16 Writing playlist this morning: Sons of Champlin, Menahan St. Band, dZihan & Kamien. #
• 08:26 twitpic.com/192f4 – The morning working space, where not a whole hell of a lot of work has been done so far. #
• 09:07 Holy crap! Am I…done?? 🙂 #
• 09:34 I’ll give this last story a few hours to cool off. In the meantime, let’s see how far we can get with the next story. #
• 10:47 Would’ve treated this advice (from Thelonius Monk to Charlie Rouse(?)) like Gospel during my jazz-playing years tinyurl.com/dma8wf #
• 11:39 Life imitates a Raymond Carver story community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1616826.html #
• 13:27 Starting to resent having to cram my lunch down my throat on skool days. Yet, I still find time to check email…? #
• 14:46 $350 for the lock cylinder. Motherfrakker! #
• 15:54 Y’know, I don’t care if I’m stuck here for another 2.5 hours. My weekend starts now. #
• 17:14 Gonna pull a John Henry tonight and see how many words I can write tonite before I drop dead from exhaustion. #
• 18:56 I will not procrastinate by looking over new books. I will not procrastinate by looking over new books. I will not procrastinate by looking #
• 19:30 Gah! I’m supposed to be adding words, not cutting them!! #

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• 08:23 "Feelin’ stronger every day (you know I’m all right now)…" ♫ blip.fm/~1v30d #
• 08:24 Wish I could be writing instead of going to my study section :(. But at least I’ll have my lunchtime (I hope). #
• 08:55 I had a few minutes before section. *Four lines left* to fix on the WIP. Now, on to skoolwork. #
• 10:55 Pondering my own discount Flip cam tinyurl.com/cgsoh3 #
• 13:33 Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction’s & Fantasy’s Best Writers tinyurl.com/ahqusl #
• 13:42 Two lines. I just need to rewrite two more goddamn lines, and I can put this beast to bed. #
• 17:33 Wiped out. Tomorrow’s Friday, but it’s gonna feel like Wednesday to me 🙁 #
• 20:26 Evening routine derailed by the starter failing on the car :(. Knew I should’ve just went straight home after work! #
• 20:26 Oh well…I got 2 sentences to rewrite. Will worry about the towing costs, etc. later. #

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• 08:13 A little Do As Infinity piping thru the headphones to get me going on my 1st day back in the saddle. ♫ blip.fm/~1uaex #
• 08:50 The writing’s finally coming along again. Almost done with Draft 1.99! #
• 09:38 2 lousy paragraphs left! Oh well, something to do at lunch, I suppose. #
• 11:51 Gah! Almost forgot–no lunch for writing today, ‘cos of skool 🙁 #
• 13:30 Current weather condition: A big wintry mix of suck. #
• 17:41 1st day back could’ve gone worse. Not by much, tho ;). #
• 18:08 Anticipating my slipping and sliding on the way home. #
• 19:21 Staring at the 2 paragraphs from this morning, waiting for the Chinese food to arrive. #
• 19:37 RED DWARF is back! There is a God! news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7851989.stm #

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• 08:20 Today’s agenda: breakfast, write, get my back cracked, write, write, skoolwork, write, sort out office full of bequeathed stuff, write, etc. #
• 09:02 My two writing children have formed a connection tinyurl.com/b4uagh #
• 11:50 Got distracted by email, feed reader, bookmark, MonkeyGTD cleanup. I think I’m back on track. #
• 12:08 twitpic.com/17uto – Desperately attempting to get work done. #
• 14:02 Just had my back adjusted. Feels soooo good. Didn’t realize my neck was in such bad shape, either. #
• 14:10 @strikethru From working w/someone who’s been using voice recognition software for awhile, I shudder to think how my drafts would look. #
• 14:15 RT @NewsHour Author John Updike has died of lung cancer. He was 76. #
• 16:00 RT @AletheaKontis Wow. Realms of Fantasy bites the dust: tinyurl.com/c2wesw #
• 16:02 The two major things I’ve accomplished today, other than getting my spine adjusted, are "jack" and "crap." #

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• 08:17 In-laws gone. Place to ourselves, at last. Two more days off work…time for my "weekend." #
• 08:22 D’oh! Almost forgot I have skool today!! #
• 08:25 The no-nos that "geeks" make when writing fiction tinyurl.com/8ecwac #
• 08:27 Need a god? "Browse the pantheons of the world" at www.godchecker.com #
• 15:32 Sometime, in the week since I checked the mail last, my textbook finally arrived! Now I can attempt some skoolwork. #
• 17:02 Okay, that’s enough skoolwork for now. Gonna have some dinner and hit the writing hard! Maybe. #
• 17:23 Hooking my new monitor up to my old laptop is like putting spinning rims on an ’88 Toyota Corolla. #

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• 10:27 10 hours of sleep last night! Could still probably use another 2. #
• 10:28 You know you’ve crossed the age Rubicon when you own and use an automatic blood pressure monitor. #
• 10:41 20 Rules for Writing Detective Stories from 1936 (or, Why Don’s Woefully Incapable of Writing Detective Stories) tinyurl.com/ca4vla #
• 10:44 File for WIP No.1 open. What’s this story about, again? #
• 11:18 Hooked the AlphaSmart up to the netbook and dumped 3 files full of neglected notes. Then installed GetIt. Because I can. #
• 12:20 Time for one last task, then we can finally take the time to claw our way back to normalcy. And writing. Well, editing really… #
• 16:18 All done, finally! Got two ancient computers and a monitor to fiddle with, now. Gonna throw Linux on them and see what they can do. #
• 16:19 Um, now how does one throw Linux on an ancient computer? #
• 16:26 Something to do for the next couple of days as family and friends start filtering away. #
• 17:49 Catching up on the @meetthepress podcast while sleepily looking over my WIP. Probably too tired to get too far tonite. #

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• 06:58 Getting ready to leave for funeral a couple towns over. Expecting the day to be very, very long. #
• 17:56 Funeral went well. More love than you could shake a stick at. Sooooo tired, but there’s 1 day left of stuff still to do. #
• 18:14 @GigiVernon Woohoo on the 1st draft!! I got a couple or five to finish… #
• 18:24 Some writing advice+stark realism from JA Konrath tinyurl.com/b7rfl7 #
• 21:48 1 last mom-in-law related task to attend to tomorrow. In the meantime, making my plan of attack for wrapping up the final draft of last WIP. #

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• 09:10 Sleep cycle is so screwed, I feel like I’m back to my old undergrad MUD-playing days. #
• 09:12 Think there’s enough room in today’s agenda to go to skool. It’d be sad if I fell too far behind in the first week of classes. #
• 12:09 Waiting for the start of dinner theat…I mean, class. #
• 13:53 Enjoying a brief respite before returning to the business of sifting thru belongings. In the meantime, scribbled down start of 3rd new WIP. #
• 18:30 Will wait until my dinner digests to see if the Brooks Bros. suit still fits. If not, then there’ll be time to run to the mall :(. #
• 18:37 Pondering muay Thai workouts again. Dunno if I still got that Eye of the Tiger, though :(. #

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• 01:55 To my mother-in-law: ‘Til we meet again. tinyurl.com/afzf6o #
• 09:56 Will be intermittently off and on the grid for the next few days. #
• 10:33 I know there are arrangements. Just don’t know exactly what they are, yet. #
• 16:03 Day spent sifting thru belongings and finalizing arrangements. I’m lucky–I get to take a catnap while the blood relatives make phone calls. #
• 19:27 3 hours–that’s still a catnap, right? #
• 19:49 Indulging in a little bit of normalcy, surfing the web actually looking for things rather than just killing time. #
• 19:49 So, what’ve I missed the past couple days? #
• 21:56 Private viewing and funeral Mass on Saturday. Have one day to get a new shirt. #
• 22:06 Another island of normalcy in watching BURN NOTICE 2×10. #

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