early evening haiku

cuz that’s what kind of day it was:

everything’s disturbed
out of place, hint of panic,
want to hide my head.

Remedy for day,
Wherein I’m worn to a nub
Martini on porch.

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Compulsive Counting

I confess that I can be a compulsive counter: squares, blocks, silverware, you name it. OK, little heath bars. There I’ve said it. It was certainly one of the pleasures of NaNoWriMo that it was designed to fulfill my word-counting interest. Cut and paste your total output of words and voila! A nice shiny new word count total and even bar charts to go with it.

So imagine my pleasure to discover a Word Press plug in that does the same sort of thing. It’s appropriately WP Word Count. It did give me the ability to put a not-so-pretty word count in the sidebar over there, but here’s the view I have from my WP dashboard. ooooooh aaaaaaah!

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back of envelope figurings

so a little rough calculating says I probably need about 300-400 brown squares stuck up on the wall. I’m not sure how many are there on my table ready to go but I think I’ll go rummage a bit more. I added about four more to the mix tonight.

I did stick a few up there and mainly I sipped a lot of iced tea. So sue me, LOL.

In other news, leaving the mailbox door open for two days resulted in the very active nest of little brown ants taking their business elsewhere. Bye bye!

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Yeah, what she said

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! — Jackie Collins

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Lunch time #haiku

Keeping with the weather theme, aka hot:

solid slushy fruit
occasionally crunchy
spit out small black seeds

water from the well
cold year round, from deep below
revives my dry throat

Hot tea does refresh
and when the heat of the day
comes on, I ice it.

most guilty I am
twittering full bore at lunch
to an empty room.

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