December 2011 Archives

Obviously I’m using this week to catch up on the blog. I’ve been bottling up a lot over the past few months, and filing things away in my brain when my emotional state made it difficult to know what would actually come out once I started writing. And then there was November and a 50,000 word novel that took up all my writing energy, which I completed to the satisfaction of NaNoWriMo, but not my own. I don’t think I was even halfway through the story when I hit the finish line, and if I’m going to finish it for real, it needs some reworking from the beginning.I find lately though that I have a lot to say. I always ... more

It’s 3:50am and I’m wide awake. Because I’m on vacation. I have five days left. It will only get worse. But now that I’m on a more normal sleep schedule (for me), I’m all kinds of productive. Today I loaded up the bike on my trunk rack and took it to the shop for an overdue tune up. I took out my car radio and installed an iPod adapter. I attached picture wire to the back of a door so I can hang it on the wall after I paint something on it. And then I put on the first coat of oil ground. I hope I only need one more coat. I hate oil ground. It’s nasty, sticky, terrible ... more

I would say it’s Christmas night, but since I’m on Mountain Standard Time, I really can’t. I haven’t been able to say it truthfully for half an hour, and probably much longer by the time I’m finished here. I’m not sure how important it really is, or how much it was ever really Christmas to begin with. What I can say truthfully is that I have a pain in my right temple, bad enough that I just took some five year old Tylenol that I found in a bathroom drawer. And then I got the hiccups. Altitude is a weird thing. There is no humidity here, and little oxygen. Denver is a mile high and that’s enough to cause us ... more