Month: November 2009
-
Back in the U S and A
I’m back in Oakland. I got back late late last night, after a very long travel day. We weren’t able to check in online at the hotel (nevermind that the hotel computer had one of those whacked-out non-US keyboards where the backslash character is Control-Alt-Shift-Start-Caps Lock or something) and we left early to get to…
-
XEmacs annoyances on the road
Every time I rely on something on a new computer and take it on the road, said computer/system throws a pain-in-the-ass problem at me. And the difficulty of said problem is inversely proportional to the availability of either time or internet access. Case in point: I do a lot of my writing on my home…
-
Hello from Mexico
I’m writing from a hotel room in Ixtapa, Mexico, where I’ve been hanging out for almost a week. We flew down last Saturday, and fly back on Sunday. This has been our first real vacation since our honeymoon in the Bahamas in 2007, except for long weekends, trips back to the Midwest for holidays, and…
-
A final coda to the season
Oh yeah, I have not updated since the end of baseball season. People keep commenting about the Yankees buying the World Series, because it’s great to hate the Yankees. My general opinion on that is, “eh.” It’s no secret teams with high payrolls have more success, except the Mets have the second-highest payroll and 2009…
-
Marathon
It’s been a while. I’ve been busy working on this NaNoWriMo book writing marathon. It’s day 15, and I should be at 25,000 words, and I’m just shy of 32,000 words, which is good news. The bad news is I took yesterday off, I barely picked at things today after sleeping in, and I go…
-
NaNoWriMo, day one
So there’s this thing called National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. It’s a contest of sorts, where writers have one month to write a 50,000 word novel. There are no prizes or judges, and there’s no real anything except motivation to throw together a book as fast as possible. This isn’t anything new; I tried…