Ya know I really thought I might actually have a bit more to write about once I had a job, but as I can see now really I do not. All I can really do at this point is whine and complain about the callers I must baby sit on the every day.

For instance why is the concept of a "startup chime" so difficult. It's a chime at startup of your computer. Thus the name (say it with me) startup chime. It should be rather obvious this refers to the chime at startup thus if you're logged in right now restart the computer, thus giving you the startup chime. Enough sarcasm yet? Good : ).

I really do enjoy this blogger. I mean I don't contribute to it as much as I think I should but the actual web site and feature-set are quite nice and new features are constantly being added. On the opening page for the blogger account for instance are nice little pointers on new features and new ways of doing things.

A couple weeks ago (apparently) was this new feature/event called National Novel Writing Month. In that spirit a two-part article (part 1, part 2) was written to introduce the concept, along with a sample blog made to look like a book format.

And why mention all this? I'm half inspired to try to participate, that's why. Yes, starting up the old "Mystery short story" or "Mysterious Short Story" or whatever, that'd be fun. And of course the motivation of participating with other people and maybe I'll even have some kind of audience who provides feedback. Maybe.

I'm not sure I could do 50,000 words in a single month however. According to the article that works out to about 7 pages a day. I mean sure between this blog and all the notes I take for work I'm getting a writing fill but I'm not sure I could write that much.

So though I would expect I'll come up short of the 50,000-word goal I still think it would be a fun thing to do. Not mention perhaps all that activity on the blog will attract some attention of visitors.

This weekend I drove down to my little sister's place. She lives about 2 hours away (when there's traffic and speed limits). I went down there to set up her computer for her and just visit. Of course I missed the off-ramp at first so I had to back track. Wasn't too terribly bad though, I managed to find the place.

I was planning on starting on the novel and/or working on my VCR mod computer yesterday but hey delivering a wedding present to a sister works just as well. This morning I left around 11:00 and finally got home about 1:20, albeit with a few stops. So here I am with a whole rest-of-the-day in front of me and what I am doing? Super VCR Mod: no. Working on a novel-in-a-month: no. Writing in the other blog like I have something have-important to say or something.

I did rent a movie: Dawn of the Dead. I don't know if will be any good. I don't even know why I wanted to see it. And uhh...ya it all ties into politics. Democrats will register and vote with dead citizens in their attempt to win so it is like the Dawn of the Dead. Yes, that's the ticket. Ok enough of that. I'm ending this entry now.

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