• Mood: recumbent
• Music: Big Country - The Storm / Mandy Moore - Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters / The Nields - Art of the Gun

if I ever lose my hands I won't have to work no more

Progress notes for 20 April 2005

Whiskey & Water

New Words: 1010. I'll most likely kill them all in the morning.
Total Words: 45,248
Pages: 204

45,248 / 160,000 (28.0%)

Reason for stopping: bed. Ugh. I think I need to be two people.
Mammalian Assistance: dogs that get beef rib bones for breakfast are happy quiet dogs.
Stimulants: seltzer
Exercise: none
Mail: nomail
Today's words Word don't know: n/a
Tyop du jour: before his second put of coffee
Darling du jour: In some ways, cop work was a lot like selling vacuum cleaners.
Books in progress, but not at all quickly: Ed Sanders, Tales of Beatnik Glory; Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, Sarah Monette, Kekropia
Interesting research tidbit of the day:
Other writing-related work: Two chapters read for truepenny.

Also, I cleaned my keyboard vigorously, including prising off key caps and deploying the vacuum, lysol wipes, tweezers, and a metal comb. (It's an old IMB (yes, that same IBM, netcurmudgeon) and it responds very cheerfully to being taken apart.)

My ctrl key works again. *g*