Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

Who is busy slamming his head on his keyboard, trying to meet a fixed deadline while his boss keeps moving the damned target. :::sigh:::

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So this is just one more example of how I lose time. I was working on NaNoWriMo, really, I was. I’m also fighting with a really nasty cold that just won’t let go, Alison had a sleepover, and blah blah blah.
So what do I get caught up in? I started finally editing photos from November [...]

I read about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in the spring and decided I’d participate when it came around in November.
Famous last words.
You’re supposed to write 50,000 words in a month- 1,667 a day if your output is consistent- and voila, you have a novel. It doesn’t have to be a good novel- [...]

I actually laughed out loud. It’s a little dated, but still true.

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Been crazy. Aside from election addiction/madness/withdrawal (Yay! (mostly. Boo for Jefferson, dammit))
All sorts of stuff, but a rash of updates about to be posted. You’ll have to find the cream to clear them up on your own, tho…

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The day we’d scheduled to visit the Gulf with friends the tropical winds and surf meant red flags were flying- no swimming, and even sneaking into the water up to your knees meant being menaced by the swarming jellyfish.
Still, it was a beautiful day, warmish with a lovely breeze and that particular tropical storm ended [...]

So far, so good. Nothing’s brewing in the tropics, yard cleanup has begun (again), and things move forward.
We lost power before the storm really even began, and didn’t get it back for 4 days. Luckily, they were breezy days, cool by New Orleans standards, and were spent in a strange sort of suspended animation. [...]

From Wonkette (emphasis mine):
ROVE, YOU SCOURGE: Talking about the possibility of Hurricane Gustav making landfall during the Republican convention, Karl Rove tells Fox News, “The Republicans can’t seem to get a break when it comes to August and when it comes to the weather.” Right in the middle of the president’s vacation, frequently! Stupid [...]

That’s what this idiot, Stuart Shepard, asks 1 million times in 2 and a half minutes- all to try to drown out (har har) Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver.

And yet, I cannot get this thing out of my head. It will no doubt shock you to discover that the schmuck is one of James Dobson’s [...]

…um. Lots, actually.
We traveled, and hosted travelers. Read much, wrote some. Geared up for the political season. Got stood up by Mayor Nagin. Toured vaunted institutions of higher education pretending to be mature so as to fool the admissions people into thinking she comes from people of class and allow her to attend.
Along [...]

From a story about religious crazies snake handlers in Kentucky:
“You can purchase anything off the Internet except common sense,” Harrison said. “A venomous snake isn’t a pet. You don’t play with it. If you do, you’re an idiot.

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