throw another bear in the canoe

Progress notes for 14 May 2007

All the Windwracked Stars

New Words:  800
Total Words: 15,948
Words for the Year: 122,780
Deadline: November 1
Reason for stopping: quota

15,948 / 100,000 (15.9%)

Today's words Word don't know:  lightless, puddling, Midgard, unslung, scabbarded, baldric, mailshirt, spined, slickness, thewed, brindled, rinded, Niflheim, unstirring, shoggoth, Technomancer, englobe, arcologies, holdfast, kroner, runneled, cowled, riven, musky, untrippingly, undercity, arcology, sorcerous, geas, flechette, snugged, wyrd, gridded, gorgeousness, vampiric, bonelessly, keloid,
Darling du Jour: There are no darlings now.
Mean Things: Crushed hand, bad water pressure, too much zucchini.
Tyop du Jour: corspes

The damned book is sprouting secondary characters. But I know what the next two scenes are, which is something. One is an old scene rewritten, and one is a new scene entirely.

The Internet is full of Things:  I am informed that New Amsterdam will ship either by this weekend, or early next week. I am likewise informed that there are only thirty copies of the limited edition left, so if you want one, now would be the time to pre-order.
Miles to Rivendell: 255.2. I've come out of the marshes and the land is beginning to rise up to the hills.

Guess who made it all the way through the Hal Leonard beginner guitar book today?

Okay, I mean, I'm not *good* at all of it. But hey. It's a start.

Also, I want pho. But I do not want to walk to the Vietnamese place.

Will somebody run down to the corner and pick some up for me?

No?

Drat.

Guess it's that pork chop, after all.

Contest thingy:

ABE is giving away a signed copy of the LE of New Amsterdam to somebody who fills out their poll. 

If you wanted to see if you could get one for free...

Okay. This? Is total crack.

I accidentally got the crocodile addicted to Thorazine first time through.

Ooops.