Year: 2004

Plugging Away at the Novel

I’ve returned to writing again. I have some simple maps together. I have at least enough to get me through the first bit. I hope to flesh them out later, but for now I need to get more writing done. My word count is about 5% of my goal and I’m about 4.5% through my outline.

I’m an idiot!

Since I finished reading
Latter Days (the second to last volume of Cerebus, the 6000
page epic graphic novel) some months ago, I have been grumping
about, attemping to find a copy Cerebus issue 290. See, I’ve been
reading Cerebus since I was about 12, and I really wanted to read
to the end (issue 300). I have issue 289, and issues 291-300
sitting here (Latter Days
finishes up at 288).

Today I took 289 out for no real reason (my copy of The Last Day, containing issues 289-300
should arrive this week), flipped it over and saw the cover for
issue 290. Double issue. That would be why I couldn’t find it
anywhere, because I’m an idiot. Oh well.

I’ll have more to say about Cerebus soon. Maybe I can finish it
before it gets here.

Update: To learn a valuable
lesson from Cerebus, read more…

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Stalled

Work on my novel has been progressing slowly but surely. I got about 6500 words in without too much issue, but I now find myself in need of a map. I hate to take a break from the writing itself at this point, but I feel that if I don’t have a map I’ll keep floundering around the same few hundred words I’ve been stuck on today.

The real decision is to use the computer, or dig out some graph paper.

Movie Review: Happy Accidents (2000)

Happy Accidents
Since we recently purchased a new TiVo, it’s time to watch all the stuff that’s been collecting on the old one. This movie had been sitting there for some time. The Mrs. didn’t seem too interested in this one (The description really didn’t sound too promising), but I insisted that we had seen a clip from it and had both wanted to see it some time back (the scene I remembered was in the movie, so I wasn’t just making it up).

Anyhow, earlier tonight we finally sat down and pressed play. This movie is a little hard to explain. It’s a Dramatic Romantic Comedy with hint of Sci-Fi tossed in.

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TiVo Series 2 on sale cheap!

TiVo is currently having a sale on Factory-renewed units. If you don’t have one, go get one right now! I’ll wait.

I’ve had a TiVo for three years now. It is the greatest television related invention since the television itself. What’s so great about it? I know that I will not be able to explain this well enough, but I’ll try.
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Dinner conversations with a two year old

We had a pretty crazy weekend around here, and I started back to work Monday to find a number of fires to fight right off the bat. I don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about my daughter.

Sometime she really cracks me up.

One night last week I came in from the grill with some pretty nice looking pork chops. As the smell filled the room my daughter ran over and yelled "I want steak!" The night before we had, in fact, had steak from the grill.

"We’re having pork tonight. That’s pork," I replied.

She belted out, "Yeah. Pork is good steak".

Can’t argue with that.

Tonight we had pasta, and Denise and I also had salads. After the pasta was gone, Denise asked "Do you want something else?"

"I want my salad."

"Do you want something out of my salad?" Usually Denise and I will give her a few carrots or a cucumber, but she’s never had a salad.

"I want salad in a bowl!"

Denise shrugged, gave me a look that said, "she’ll never eat this", and handed her salad bowl over.

"This is my favorite dinner I never had."

Apparently it was, because she ate almost all of it while my wife hungrily looked on in amazement.