Author: Don

• 07:08 Hardly slept last nite. Not because of travel nerves, but because of all the blind coffee/Red Bull drinking I did to get stuff done. 🙁 #
• 07:10 Everything’s all packed and ready, though. #
• 07:11 Anyone wants me, "I went back to Ohio." ♫ blip.fm/~1c70u #
• 16:52 Pleasantly uneventful, if slow, drive. Slow was good, though. #
• 16:52 Forgot the most important thing–my laptop’s power cords :(. #
• 17:23 Not having laptop cords makes the idea of buying a netbook all the more appealing. #
• 22:07 WTF…was I really that thirsty that I found Corona tasty?? #

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• 08:30 Life definitely feels different getting 9 hours of sleep a night :). #
• 08:31 "A Comprehensive and Totally Universal Listing of Every Problem a Story Has Ever Had" andromedaspaceways.com/EveryProblem.htm #
• 08:52 Bumming myself out by reading writers’ blogs and all their year-end posts on their submission stats. #
• 11:33 Home office is a disaster area, since I’m only half-heartedly rearranging it in between doing other things. #
• 12:17 Too engrossed in MEGA SNAKE on Sci-Fi to make progress on the office. #
• 13:16 Time to find something a little more productive to do with my life today, maybe sneak in a taste of the nice weather. #
• 13:48 Laundry–that’s productive. Lame, but productive. #
• 15:28 Suppose now that the laundry’s done, I can pack for tomorrow’s trip…eventually. #
• 16:10 Slowly understanding why some writers like writing in pencil. #
• 16:11 Yes, trying to write. Anyonw who knows me knows I’m not going to think about packing until 10, maybe 11 tonite :). #
• 17:24 Gonna go out for some nice local coffee and see if I can eke out one more page. #
• 19:39 Wrote (w/the Mirado Black Warrior No.2) 3pgs. Will have to cut 2-3 earlier pages. #
• 19:39 Now I have time to (make a list of things to) pack. 🙂 #
• 20:46 Packed: current WIP, books, mp3 player, cameras, & associated gear. Not yet packed: clothes, etc. #

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• 07:56 Pondering how to spend my last 2 days of freedom before visiting family. #
• 07:57 "A Polish man…visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment’s employees." tinyurl.com/2u5ljm #
• 11:11 Completed the annual pilgrimmage to the office supply store to stock up writing supplies for the New Year. #
• 12:08 Going out for coffee and to take a leisurely, lackadaisical approach to writing today. For once. #
• 14:56 Not much writing done. Did a lot of brainstorming, conceptualizing, & reinventing for the New Year. Still going, too. #
• 19:02 Coffee in bed. Not a bad idea. Might substitute Red Bull, tho :). ♫ blip.fm/~1bn04 #
• 21:56 Today’s 1/2 pg of writing done Capote-style, i.e. handwritten w/a Mirado Black Warrior No. 2 pencil. Just ‘cos. #

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• 13:36 DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special 2008: 4.5 out of 5. Definitely enjoyed more than last year’s. #
• 13:38 Didn’t find much in the way of Boxing Day sales this morning. Even got 1/2 pg of writing done! #
• 13:39 I think I’ve earned some time in front of the HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES marathon on Sci-Fi. #
• 18:18 I forgot how craptastic HIGHLANDER: THE SOURCE is. How the hell do you start a movie with 5 straight minutes of expositional monologue? #
• 19:02 Getting next year’s calendar together while LOLing at HIGHLANDER: THE SOURCE. #
• 19:09 Ahh! Ears bleeding at the sound of HIGHLANDER: THE SOURCE’s version of "Princes of the Universe"–make it stop, make it stop!!! #
• 19:58 Last 5 min. of HIGHLANDER: THE SOURCE are worse than the first. Expositional monologue/montage recap of the movie!!! #

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• 07:49 Merry Christmas!! #
• 08:05 Getting ready for family to come over and for the DCOTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! #
• 08:44 Coffee and BookTV on a Thursday morning–it IS Christmas! #
• 10:15 No Christmas of mine is complete without CHICAGO XXV on the CD player and a showing of BLACKADDER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL. #
• 20:22 Despite some the difficult logistics, this was one of the least-stressful Xmas family times I’ve ever, ever had! #
• 20:41 When we see my folks next week, might be a different story ;). #
• 20:54 Trying to avoid intarwub spoilers for the 2008 DOCTOR WHO Christmas Special, since I’ll be watching it shortly…. #
• 22:56 The best Christmas gift today…a rejection email! #

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• 03:20 "I can’t get to sleep. I think about the implications…" ♫ blip.fm/~1ad6d #
• 07:16 Always thought Band Aid had the better tune than USA for Africa. ♫ blip.fm/~1aemd #
• 09:25 OSHA retraining. The Xmas gift that keeps on giving! 🙂 #
• 09:36 Scored 90% on "Violence in the Workplace." So, I’m now fully prepared to be violent in the workplace? #
• 10:21 Time to get Xmasy: tinyurl.com/7elchp #
• 10:24 Been playing this at my desk all morning so far; can’t get enough. ♫ blip.fm/~1aghg #
• 11:48 A video I send around every Xmas: tinyurl.com/2d74md #
• 11:58 Waiting for Chinese food lunch while clearing out a year’s worth of Google Notes and Bookmarks. Writing? What writing? #
• 16:20 "Vacation–all I ever wanted…" ♫ blip.fm/~1akm8 #
• 16:23 Safely ensconced at home and can finally relax! #
• 19:55 Hardest decision I face tonite: watch GHOST HUNTERS rerun or the first showing of A CHRISTMAS STORY in their 24-hr marathon. #

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• 07:03 Not as cold today, true. Also, not as motivated now that my grades are in. I think I’m pretty much gonna phone it in today :). #
• 07:12 Because I haven’t heard this in awhile and I need a good wake-up song: ♫ blip.fm/~19xkk #
• 09:01 More tribu–presents–from coworkers! Including jazz CDs! Cassandra Wilson, Basie/Vaughn, Eliane Elias, & Return to Forever!!! #
• 10:12 Could be writing on the d/l, but nope. Socializing between the few tasks I have today. #
• 11:19 Broke down "mr.wizard" delicious tag into separate sciences. A small step to streamlining my archives for 2009. tinyurl.com/6wcycy #
• 13:38 1.5 handwritten pages at lunch, thank you Jesus!! #
• 13:38 Still no idea where the story’s going, but it’s absolutely going somewhere! #
• 14:45 Staring at the thin pile of work I just know I’m not gonna touch until tomorrow. #
• 15:23 Nothing else to do but (some of) that thin pile o’ work ;). #
• 16:44 Wondering if I should take a chance on the usual writing spot tonite, or if I should just let 1.5 pgs be enough. Oh, who am I fooling? #
• 17:46 Saw a glimpse of traffic and went straight home. I’ll write here :). #
• 18:07 Feels odd holding a stack of brand-new CDs. Been awhile, since I’ve been getting my tunes, um…elsewhere. #
• 18:29 Like writing was really gonna happen, listening to a tune called "Beyond the Seventh Galaxy." ♫ blip.fm/~1a7nq #
• 19:57 Somebody on one of Yahoo’s hampster wheels must’ve keeled over dead if I can’t sign on to my email right now. #

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• 07:01 Early morning. The coldest time of the coldest day of the year so far. Of course I have to leave for work soon! #
• 07:02 I will be wearing the DOCTOR WHO scarf. People can point and laugh all the want–while they’re shivering cold :P~ #
• 07:10 "How can it be so cold in here? It’s like Greenland in here. We’ve got to get some booze. It’s the only solution to this intense cold." #
• 07:19 I want these functional night-vision goggles for kids! tinyurl.com/8eo6ln #
• 07:19 Here’s why: basicinstructions.net/?p=851 #
• 09:22 I paid the price for not being able to find my longjohns this morning. Other than that, the DOCTOR WHO scarf rules again!! #
• 10:15 Ack! Left my flash drive with my portableapps at home. Now I’m stuck with MSIE all freakin’ day :(. #
• 10:21 Small-press indie publishers of fantasy, mystery, & horror tinyurl.com/86ql9q #
• 10:48 RT from @totn – stuff you just couldn’t make up if you tried: tinyurl.com/8ahcf2 #
• 11:59 Saw this on MTV/VH-1 100s of times; never realized Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich were in it: tinyurl.com/2gs2n6 #
• 12:02 10 tweets before lunch. I fear the karmic payback. Crap, that was 11…. #
• 13:08 Writing progress at lunch: One. lousy. paragraph. #
• 15:02 What’d I say about karmic payback? Actually, it hasn’t been that bad :). #
• 15:24 Saw my grade online. Did not get a perfect score on the final. Will have to "settle" for a B+ in the class!!!! 🙂 #
• 18:05 Came home instead of going to writing spot; can’t remember the last time I was home this early on a weekday when I wasn’t sick. #
• 19:56 Forced to cement my holiday travel plans. Woe is me :). #
• 20:43 Given up on writing for today. Lost in an 80s Chicago binge (Chicago 16, 17, 18 & 19–not desperate enough for Chicago XIV, tho ;)). #

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• 08:11 Last minute edits before group (maybe)!! #
• 08:28 "Swiss Watch Found in 400-year Old Tomb"??? tinyurl.com/578t4a #
• 09:15 Editing music. ♫ blip.fm/~19258 #
• 10:14 What I’ve got is about as good as it’s going to get before group. Bleh. #
• 17:54 Told myself I was gonna goof off after group. So why do I have the file open, dammit? #
• 18:00 Why? Because there’s only one way I’m going to get this Sword of Damocles out from over my head… 🙂 #
• 19:38 Just discovered that mp3 links I’ve saved in del.icio.us now open with a flash player! That’s almost as cool as Google’s. #
• 19:39 Unlike Google, can’t FF or REW–Fail. #
• 21:13 Time for relaxing music, tea, and bed w/a book. ♫ blip.fm/~19b10 #

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