Get This!

  When we went to get our pizza last night, the new place we tried didn't accept cards of any kind.  Can you believe that?  In this day and age of convenience-of paying for gas by pressing a button, or swiping a card to get your Big Mac-there is still a place out there that only takes cash!  We actually had to go to a gas station and pay a fee to use the ATM so that we could have dinner.

  That's not the best part, though.  Kasey noticed this on the ride home and it was hysterically ironic.  On the top of the pizza box was an ad.

An ad for the Visa check card.

 

Word count: 3608

Production

Today was a pretty productive day.  I'm happy.  That's why the title of this is Production and the mood is Happy.

  First, I finally got someone on the phone about some worker's comp thing I got in the mail telling me I have to fill out some forms or I'll be fined.  Apparently I wasn't supposed to get that-it was supposed to go to work.  The guy I talked to told me that they probably got a copy and it was for them to worry about.  I should do nothing.  No problem there.  Nothing is all I've done since December.

  Next, I wrote the prologue to my novel as well as 5 more pages of chapter 1.  I am rolling.  My goal is to get as much done as possible in the next week before I lose the use of my right hand for a while.  Bad news: I cut the LOST recap out of my plans for today.  I'm still kind of mad about that, anyway.

  I discovered something else pretty cool about Realplayer Rhapsody.  It gives me my own personal charts.  With one click, I can see what 60 tracks I've listened to the most, what bands I lean toward, as well as albums.  It's neat.

Second novel word count: 3124

ARG!

Laptop waited less than 24 hours to irritate me.  I was 75% complete with the LOST recap when it decided to log me off and make me lose everything.  I'll do it tomorrow- I right now I am anxious to get to my more important writing.  Sorry, everyone.  :(

More exciting news

1. My laptop came yesterday so I am writing this in bed.  Now I can finally have the mobility I need to get some privacy and/or quiet when I am writing.  The other benefit I almost forgot about was that I can do the LOST recap today right into the 'puter without having to jot it down first.

2. I discovered that songs I have downloaded can be added to a Rhapsody playlist.  So all the songs I've been disappointed about because they 'weren't available' can be added myself.  And if you knew how excited this makes me, you would think I'm crazy.  Maybe you do.

I thought I had more, but I guess I don't.  I would like to share part of a conversation my wife and daughter had last night.   
Kasey:  fsku yuo
Keri:  bedtime

That was not punishment for trying to curse her out- that F word was somehow supposed to be 'Thank' .

Coming after my doctor visit: a recap of last night's fully loaded episode of LOST.  SEE YA!

 

Oral Trauma

I just got back from the first visit to the dentist I have had in a long time. 

First, the hygeinist couldn't finish the cleaning because I was bleeding so much.  Then the dentist told me that I have to lose both wisdom teeth.  Hopefully, I'll stay smart.  Also, the tooth with the big chunk missing in my smile line has to come out, but that's not urgent.

The good news is that while I was in the chair, I thought of an improvement to my novel's plot.  Exciting!

By the Numbers

# of words in "Untitled Document", the tentative title of my second novel:  1860

# of hours spent writing yesterday: 4

# of songs on my Rhapsody playlist: 654

Projected time it would take to listen to that playlist from end to end: 1.7 days

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Lots of car time this past week, so I think I have to do a top twenty this week.  Here's what I've been listening to:

1. Crazy- Gnarls Barkley

2. Hands Open- Snow Patrol

3. Fraud in the 80's- Mates of State

4. Skeleton Key- Margot & The Nuclear So and So's

5. New English- Ambulance LTD

6. Bullets- Editors

7. Miss Murder- AFI

8. Conventional Wisdom- Built to Spill

9. Gold Lion- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

10. Cheated Hearts- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

11. Song With a Mission- The Sounds

12. Hard to Beat- Hard Fi

13. MakeDamnSure- Taking Back Sunday 

14. The Number- Pretty Girls Make Graves

15. Catastrophe Keeps Us Together- Rainer Maria

16. I Want You So Hard- Eagles of Death Metal

17. Steady, As She Goes- The Raconteurs

18. Dress Up In You- Belle & Sebastian

19. The Blues Are Still Blue- Belle & Sebastian

20. Mr. November- The National

# 2

  I have some very exciting news.  For the first time in over a year, I have been writing.  Over the weekend, I got an idea.  Then I went for a long walk and solidified it into an entire plot line for a novel.  So far I have 500 words with no signs of slowing down.  I am in the zone- the writing zone that makes you euphoric and excited and reminds you of what you can do.  It feels out of my control.  I don't have to force anything.  I'm amazed.  I had almost given up on this never happening again.

The bad news is that I might not be around here as much. 

  In other writing news, we ordered my surgery sympathy/birthday/father's day present last night.  It's a laptop, like I've always wanted.  Now I'll be able to do my writing from anywhere, which will come in handy for times like this morning, when I wanted to tear into it, but Kasey was playing on here.  I am excited.