Had a nice Thanksgiving and birthday celebration Thursday and Friday. For the first time in a few years, I was able to celebrate with my parents, which was rather nice. Aunt Nancy put together a very nice Thanksgiving feast. The turkey was perfect; her famous sour cream mashed potatoes were sublime; the stuffing was delicious; …
Monthly Archives: November 2006
NaNoWriMo comes to an end
Some of you may have noticed that before Thanksgiving I took down the NaNoWriMo progress bar. For the third time, various factors have conspired to keep me from composing the requisite 50K words during the month of November. While I’m a tad disappointed, this year did yield a positive result that I’ve never experienced in …
T1: Dortmunder Export
For the first batch of homebrew, I chose to keep things simple and go with a pre-packaged ingredients kit. I chose Grape and Granary’s Dortmunder Export. Because this was my first solo run, I chose not to modify the kit in any way; just brewed it as provided. The G&G kit was very nicely put …
2006 NaNoWriMo Update
Well, yesterday was the half-way point of this crazy exercise. Folks that are on pace are over the 25K mark. I am not one of those folk. In fact, I’m not even close to being one of those folk. I’m a good 9-10K behind. Why is this? Good question. The only legitimate response I have …
Strange Switcheroo
So, it appears that Halloween is still lingering in some parts of the country. Cincinnati, to be exact. Last week I placed an Amazon order, which as the order went through its processing I learned was being packaged in Cincy. Yesterday, the wonderful brown box appeared on the porch with my order. I opened the …
Election Day Observations
As the dust settles and we wait to hear what’s going to happen in the Virginia and Montana senate races, I thought I’d share some random observations from my tiny little couch here in rural northwest Ohio. Ohio voters proved themselves smart I was really impressed with the Ohio electorate yesterday. We were faced with …
Get Out And VOTE!
Perhaps an end to the horrific mudslinging and character assasination is too much to ask, but at least we can move from the dirty campaign ads to the dirty “they stole the election” ads and finger-pointing about negative campaigning. At any rate, here in the Eastern time zone the polls are open and humming. Whatever …
NaNoWriMo Update
As you can see, I’m trudging along quite nicely in the word count area. Mind you, it’s total rubbish, but quality isn’t exactly the point of NaNoWriMo. Mugglenet.com quotes J.K. Rowling describing the all-too-frequent, ‘it’s rubbish, I’ve wasted a week and I’ll have to re-write the lot.’ And if you think that’s an exaggeration or …
