I can haz a car! And other mid-morning ramblings...

[byslantedlight]

Hurrah and hurrah! And what was the problem in the end? Dead battery... Turns out that modern batteries don't give you any warning that they're about to cark it, they just do. Wee car had never given me any problems starting, so it never occurred to me it might be the battery... So - bloody phew. A much-more-reasonable-sum-of-money-later, I can go again. I like going... *g*

Speaking of which - should I be counting down? 24 sleeps until I'm sleeping on a plane, if I should... Eeeep! Boxes! Books! Fic! Shelves! Stuff!

And should I do NaNoWriMo this year? I missed it the year I didn't do it (cos I was in Australia that time too - huh), but on the other hand this time I'll be trying to work and pack and work and travel and work and do the family thing and... Will it even be possible? I've not yet signed up and then failed, and I don't want to break the magic of 50k in a month... The other thing is that it probably wouldn't be Pros this time, just cos I think it's probably about time to write some of the other stuff that's tucked into my head... Which means I expect anyone reading this paragraph is now thinking what a waste of reading a paragraph that was... But - oh, hmmmn, what-to-do, what-to-do...?

This amused me in the paper this morning. Yes and yes. It continues into a bit that ends with cappaccino, and although I'd prefer a latte (I'm so 2000s) I'd say yes and yes again...
"It's not just the volume of emails that's ever increasing, it's also the way we can receive them. With smartphones you are never more than a second away from an email. Soon we will be able to receive them without lifting a finger, with the messages going straight into our head which, funnily enough, is exactly like talking to people." (23/10/2013)

Okay - end of excuse not to get on... My room is devastation, and yet not nearly devastation enough, and I have an argh of a job to finish before I'm allowed to get up from this seat. Which explains, of course, why I'm on lj.

How're you on this blustery autumn day?

Comments

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

I am the last person in the world to argue that you should not do a challenge you want to do! Go for it! And I am curious about what you're going to write - fanfiction, original fic, definitive textbook... oh, no, that wouldn't be a novel...

Blustery autumn - well, it was, this morning. We seem to have been through about five seasons since then, all today. And I must scurry to shop before it turns into winter on Saturn.

*whoosh*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - the last person in the world? Really? *g* But yeah - hmmn! Still undecided. I really want to, it just seems very impractical, given everything else... but if I can squeeze it into the time that I waste each day... I have a couple of original story ideas that I'm thinking about writing actually. I've not finished anything original for years and years and many-pre-Pros-years, and I've got to the either-do-it-or-stop-pretending-you-might stage. And I feel like I need to properly finish the Pros story I did for NaNoWriMo last year, before I start another one this year - I got to more than my 50,000 but there was a chapter or two still to write, and it didn't happen for some reason... something happened last December, can't think what... Anyway... yeah, I dunno. Eeep!

[moonlightmead.livejournal.com]

Well, I am going to encourage you to do both: finish the Pros one and go for the original one!