Anesor

It only took two days to get here, which I did not expect.  It looks really nice. I’m not sure whether an scanner or camera would get better image.

I’m going to poke the mess that is disguised as a draft, and find the three decent lines worth saving before I rewrite the whole thing.

But first, work. Yay, gainful employment!

I took yesterday totally off. Tonight I’m going to split the massive workfile into the various stories.  The original novel just required a slower process than NaNo and I hope to resume it for my class later this week. There’s three shorts and two chapters of my big story.  And some journal babbling on random topics that will be allocated somewhere. A lot of mine is good, its just RL consequences after Mom’s ulcer final end Friday morning… that was my prime writing time other years but not available this time. Next year I will title my project “Angst, Adventure, and other Tales..”

I tried getting writing done this weekend…. I swear.  Think I just needed a short break myself, after pushing the envelope last month.  On the plus side, new pairing I wasn’t anticipating.

Hooray to 30k, and if you only put up 500 words today, that’s fine. Really!

Just finished a chapter off today.  Which, according to my calculations, just over 25k to reach my goal.  (I’m striving for about ~74k or so, total, because its partially a rewrite.)

I started a side story, semi holiday one as I got a crack idea of Yoda in a Santa cap and grinning at Dooku

very nice. Hope you’re feeling better about it now that you got through it…

Oh, I still think it’s utter garbage. I might save two or three bits, but at least it got things flowing a bit.

Wow, that’s impressive. Well done, BW!

Welcome back to the snarky ranger!  Is Karnwyr with him, too?

Well, could it become NWN3?

Assault in mine, trying to be quite careful with how I label the aggressor.  (It matters)

my original novel project has been officially dumped for NaNo. It’s too slow and the new method is too mindful for a nano sprint. I’m going to have to pick and choose from my class. Scene planning like the class, makes me feel like a straight jacket.

I’m gonna see if I can finish my main fanfic project. I probably won’t as I have 6 chapters to go and the wordage will be more than can be done  in 19 days.

But tonight I could not resist a diversiin and did a NWN2 sequel scene that links into an oddity the Tuesday MMO release. It’s not much of a plot but  something my plot director has nabbed as a clue for a new release...

I’ve simply used my nano goal as that, a goal, to help motivate when I’m otherwise thinking about procrastinating.  I’m not wanting to stray in terms of quality.  So, yes, my goal of hitting 200k posted (just over 70k) is ambitious, and I figure the odds are 50-50; I’ll still be further along.  Right now, about 60k left to go, though I’ve got 8k on the drive, ready for the next posting.  I chose a number above 50k because it’s a comprehensive rewrite, and so it’s a really good “rough draft/outline” exists, some material will be brought over.  However, there is a boatload of new material, I’m more than doubling the word count as I revise/rewrite (ie. turning one/two sentence scenes into entire chapters).

Good luck at recovering and re-writing that mofo!

And keep in mind, this is not a polished draft. This is a rough, dirty, sloppy, total seat-of-the-pants draft, so maybe keep what you did and worry about fixing it later. Move ahead, not backward.

yeah, but it was so broken it was breaking the story. I wrote enough on friday to make up half the amoutn I was behind. I’ve started NaNo as late as the 7^th and finished on time, but i could type faster then. Thanks

I hope you find a way to clear this up.  Trouble with some social workers in that they can get a bur up their arse, or go on a power trip, etc….

btw, I prefer my eggs scrambled, with plenty of fried bacon pieces in them

This wasn’t a social worker but an aide, basically unskilled. as any nursing certs could get another job and she clearly doesn’t have a calling. The other agency (supervisor and aide) vouched against the slander as did the other aide from the same agency. So there was only the slanderer and the agency that believed someone who decided she did want to be blamed for no call no show 3 days. (we’re leaving the agency after sunday night’s shift if I can find out what I should do) That was after the 1^st version they told their agency that they could not work over the weekend because they lost their phone and car not working- ALL WEEKEND, and none of their 4 teen+ kids had a phone or car to help.  This fast passed to the county overview, where it would follow my family and home forever. It seems to have worked out, but it was a miserable 48 hours where I could not sleep, eat right, write or work on my writing class… The social worker didn’t  act on the slander, did the footwork to expose the lie, she’s a peach.

I like mine hard boiled with a little salt. And in many splendid things like greek egg-lemon soup and french toast.

Thanks!

That the aide wanted to get out of her work by blaming the customer….geez.  I mean, I could understand car difficulties, illness, etc, if it were the first thing off their lips.

I’d think some letters of appreciation/thanks to the people who helped you out here would likely do wonders     And cc’ing enough people so they’re in their personnel files for their next performance eval/raise would definitely set you apart!  Just an idea….

So, @Anesor  Like your brother or are you planning to write something for him?  A mild stubbed toe, or worse?  (Maybe picking up a voodoo doll, great for Halloween…?)

She’s recovering, though anything more than lurching to/from WC is a challenge. Her appetite is still wonky from meds (Ie she hated a recipe that tasted fine)

The problem is more my primary aide called out today and I’m physically miserable... My brother is harried because his car has been broken down since before she got sick and he needs daylight to work on it (and he has a date Sat)

well, s’not good, I hope you get better soon too. There’s always hope I guess.

friday she also got dignosedwith gall stones and additional surgery possible, but treating with meds. moving to temp niring facility tomorrow. maybe home friday.

lonely times

It just gets worse! I am so sorry!  

temp facility and home fridayis an improvement over last friday. she shounds better and I’m actually trying to stop editing and get back to writing

thanks

the servers are up. My email client cannot connect, it looks like 50% chance either my AV or firewall is blocking the login popup and the email client doesn’t have the login anymore.  Pop3:por110 was supposed to go byby, but I’ve been using recommended port995 for a good while.  or 2)I can’t help but think port 995 isn’t accepting connections at all, and my client never puts up the login window without the connection.

My ISP email ( POP) uses port 110, while my IMAP email uses port 993. Might be worth a try...

took 48 hours of pain, but it looks like proxy server settings that affected ONLY the email program, a BFE service, and new AV.

My ISP is discontining thePOP3 110 port and switching to 995. I spent WWednesdayon the phone with comcast. but late afternoon my mom’s comp was fine. so it was not the modem/router/sever settings.  the authentication wasn’t happening and there was not way to manually change it in the settings. the popup was the only way and the popup never appeared as it didn’t make a connection… ALL other programs/updates/sites seemed fine.

5 frame gif with slow frame change rate cycling through 5 different images?

I really am fine with a sense of wonder starscape… I don’t have any strong ideas for the other genres.

Lol. All fair points.

@CloverReef is clamouring for some tentacle/foot-feetish action.

That brings a very odd Cthulhu and shoes comic to mind, but no fetish action. 

Sunburn or not, try not to pick up any “lines” in it

In small print on the postcard is a scrawled comment (to the tune of the Bob Hope song) ‘Fangs for the memories...’

The Neverwinter free MMO endgame campaign looks to recreate the essentials of Ravenloft: Vistani, tarokka cards. and gothic mood. It took all my gaining time last night to install the 7gig update so I didn’t start any of the plot...

It was always one of my favorite tabletop campaigns, but gothic mood is harder than sheer violence.

shavit, I wanted to delete a duplicate, sorry about removing responses.

I’m not quite mad enough to delete them all to save time. I’m deleting dupes and doing a cleanout of things I really don’t need like old news and subscriptions I never read. I’m hoping to reduce the inbox unopened at least 1k a day until I’m back at the bad-enough 6k I was at last week.  Even my trash bin had 40k...

Sa:6k>43k>36k S:34k

Tu:31k (I confess I’m losing patience)

M:28k and now it’s a grind with new ones coming in. down to 28k now and removing a few hundred at a time… goal is 10k

Sometimes that’s the nature of writing.  Like suddenly realizing that the line you just wrote ended the story, sooner than you had planned on, so anything that followed now has to be rewritten into a sequel.

Is that Raiders Ark or Noah’s? I’m so sick of rain.

I keep checking to see if I’m getting mossy.

Keep rolling along and you’ll be fine...

Netfliiiiixxx <3

Welp, it’s arrived here...

I thought you’d get hit, it was veering 70 miles north.  Too bad it didn’t veer more.

Sadly, Netflix doesn’t carry Jeopardy.  There’s too many episodes for a game show. I’m blue that the local station stopped showing Joy of Painting.  Bob Ross is so soothing when he explains how easy oil painting is… you almost believe you can. My online comcast dvr recorded 65 eps of SW Rebels when I wasn’t looking. A handful more and I’ll have the whole set! I can’t even figure how to turn it off.

This is so weird for me to read because it rocketed back into the 70s just yesterday. It’ s so hot, I'm sweating through my eyes 

I want to know where @CloverReef is finding virgins. They’re getting scarce around here…

@BronxWench In Saskatchewan we grow em in fields next to the wheat and Canola. 

May they only jab you once on the bloodwork.  (I had to be jabbed a second time when I did mine earlier this week.)

This was an above average phlebotomist, way better than the last half dozen at least.

Rare find, congrats!