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  • [TARGETED] Of Course, This Could Be a Sign of Senility Creeping In…

    So I was making multigrain sandwiches Sunday at work. Part of the usual routine at Target. I get out the bread and lettuce, cut the meat, tomato and cheese, then assemble the sandwich. When that’s done, I seal them up…

  • [TARGETED] Freezing Outside

    Life throws you some curves. Today when I woke, the temperature was down to -15 degrees, with a wind chill of -40. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a wind chill that low, and if I had, it was decades…

  • [SITE INFO] A New Year, New Resolutions, and an Acknowledgement That Resolutions Don’t Always Pan Out

    So where do we stand? At the start of 2023 I was two months (or so) out of work after being fired from my deli job at Walmart. I had this site, which I updated sporadically at best, the Review Site,…

  • [GENERAL] Merry Christmas!

    Merry Christmas to all!

  • [NANOWRIMO] Almost Half a Ream

    So last week I did something I’ve never done before. Two somethings, actually. I finished writing a novel and I printed that novel up. 52,400 words. 241 pages (more or less) of double spaced prose. 48.2% of a ream of…

  • [NANOWRIMO] FINISHED!

    So I finished on November 26, as expected. Only now got around to bragging about it. The good news is that I ended exactly where the main action of the novel stopped. 50,009 words total. All I need now is…

  • [NANOWRIMO] 3/4 the Month Done

    Sorry about the radio silence. As you can see by the graphs, though, I have stuck with it. Should I keep it, I should finish November 26. The novel itself should be finished around the same time. Check out that…

  • [NANOWRIMO] Day 13

    Well now. 2737 words. I’m on fire. The completion date has jumped to November 24.

  • [NANOWRIMO] Day 12

    Ut oh. Today was my worst day so far. 1421 words! Yikes! According to the site, I need  1447 words a day to make it, so not that terrible. Still, YIKES!

  • [NANOWRIMO] Day 11

    Good day! 2063 words. I sit at 22516 words, approximately 45% done. (Because I’m anal, it’s actually 45.032%) I finished Chapter 10 (a short one) and I’m working on Chapter 11. Which makes me one step closer to back on track.