It was snowing when I drove home last night but I was still surprised that there was such a beautiful wintery scene this morning.
I had to pass this along from Brain Pickings – you do read that via one source or another, right? Facebook, website, email?
and in perfect step with this, the quote box spit out:
Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although I might not be doing so well on the posting here everyday thing, I am doing pretty well on the re-write/edit going on over on the NaNoWriMo side of things. Just having a flat out good time there in fact. Stopped in at a write-in on Tuesday night on the way home and helped fill up the room. There was one table of book club people, unrelated to us wrimos and they were loudly discussing something with a lot of literary references – it was a strange side by side mix. I have no idea if they figured out that the rest of the room was trying to bang out words towards something they could read in the future, LOL.
It strikes me that the NaNoWriMo word counter over there is sort of like bobbin counts only for words. Love watching the numbers pile up!
In the bigger world, it’s clear that November is here and means to stay. Even though it’s been strangely warm, I finally caved and put the storm window in the last window this morning because the weather guys kept throwing around the “snow” word. Has to happen sometime but giving up the bit of fresh air at night is sad. The kitties won’t mind though — more space to spread out on the bed without worrying about being too close to the window. Mind you, it was only open a crack but they count that for sure.
That’s it for now. What have you been up to?
You got your words, your keyboard or paper, your daily quota of 1667 and all the tweets and emails and everything else and then, while looking for some other bit of arcane information, you see this:
It’s about one A.M. here at the moment this was seen, but it makes the mind boggle about all those words being put into some sort of order all over the world.
While I was waiting to switch my laundry over to the dryer, I looked over and **geek jargon alert** massaged the stuff in the quote box. OK, what that really means is I copied and pasted it from WordPress to a text file, did some search and replaces, pasted the result into a numbers spread sheet, checked it for irregularities in styling, copied it back to the text file, did one more search and replace and pasted it back into WordPress. When I saved the text file, I saw that I’d done a similar thing in November 2013.
Life is Good.
You may resume whatever you were doing.
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. — Lucretius
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.
