Category: Writing

Check it out. I remember the time mOm and I saw a wide assortment of lenticular clouds, including the classic porthole UFO and airship models….

We’re gonna have a wet winter…. I can feel it coming on.

Word count was 650 yesterday on the new novel.  I promptly took a wrong turn.  I may have to rip it all out like a lousy knitter. Word count each day until it’s done is 603 – that will get me finished for the 1st of April next year.  I nearly clarned Keith when he said, “How apropos.” OR I could tell myself word count is 4400 words a week and not worry too much about when I do it.  Somehow I think writing every day is better, but I cannot really understand why that is.

Keith came over last night and I sprang for Chinese food from Spring Garden, our restaurant since Chong Lum Hin closed (still not happy about this).  I also just learned that Roundhouse Pizza, reliably the best ‘za in the ‘hood, has closed. VERY VERY SAD. Must find replacement, and that will not be easy because it’s all institutional crap like Domino’s BARF and Panago DOUBLE BARF.

Anyway all of the food was delicious, but the man who delivered the food was so cheerful he literally put a scare into all three of us. I wish I was kidding.

Today I’m having lunch with Sue at IHOP and having thinky thoughts about remembrance.

The sun came out yesterday and Paul and I walked in the neighbourhood and had a little snack afterwards.

Today I am cheerfully assembling book II – the chapters need to go in the final order. I know that you’re supposed to write things in sequence, but that’s not how I do it.  So I read and review and add and cut and try to get it into a reasonable order, and mix up the fast with the slow, etc. I’ve already been at it for an hour.  —- and a couple more hours go by and I’m done.

When it’s the right time it’s easy.  mOm you can expect the mss soon by email.

Some dumbass jumped off BC Ferries yesterday and triggered a full on dual ferry search and rescue mess.  SO GLAD I WAS NOT ON THAT FERRY going to see my mOm.

I am eating coffee and pecan pie for breakfast.  This makes me evil but that’s okay.

SADFACE no Alex today.  He and Katie have a chest cough and I do not want to get it or bring it home to Jeff, so maybe later.  And later runs into Victoria trip, and like that.

Yesterday off to Mike’s for the afternoon, then we had an early supper at the Korean ramen place across from his apartment on Kingsway.  The gyoza were good but I’m glad I didn’t order what Mike did, because if that was spiced mild, the hot could be used for spot welding.

NOW I AM GOING TO WRITE I HAVE NO EXCUSE ALEX IS NOT GOING TO BE HERE TODAY.

Not much but Little By Little I guess.

Raining very hard here for quite a while, it’s ever so dreary outside.  All I want to do is jump in the car, drive to the place of foodicles and buy 200 DOLLAR WORTH OF JUNK FOOD AND NOMschlurpNOMNOMschlurpGROWLshlurp IT ALL DOWN NAAAAOW!

I get to see Alex tomorrow.

Margot appears to have completely recovered from her surgery.  Her eyes are bright and her demeanour normal.

I think I have fixed my laptop overheating problem with Jeff’s input.  I knocked down everything in Chrome that could be heating things up in the background and now my average running temperature is literally 30 degrees C cooler than it was day before yesterday.  This means my laptop is no longer likely to just DIE abruptly although I’m sure it shortened the life of both the battery and the CPU.

 

I didn’t write at all yesterday but that’s because I was too busy napping and getting fed and irrigated.  I am now awaiting brekky at Mike’s place, having consumed my morning cawfay.  Mike took yesterday off, which is good because he was feeling crappy.

Starting to feel healthier now that I’m not welded into my beddy bye.  You can make neck muscles either seize or hypertrophy and that affects your carotid arteries which is not to put too fine a point on it hard on your brain.  Immediate result my low level migraine crap has more or less stopped, yay.

This was the view from Taverna Greka yesterday.

 

 

We had lots of it all. No goblins though, I couldn’t handle candy dispersal.

Margot is missing the lower fang that was abscessed but she is MUCH  better today.  She is very much enjoying how much soft food she’s getting but I’m not cause that stuff REEKS.

288 words yesterday.

A tropical storm has formed in the Pacific which is headed straight to Yemen.  Current forecasts indicate that four to five times the annual rainfall will come down in a 48 hour period; given that Yemen is one of the most vile places to live in the world on any number of scales, (yes, the people have a tradition of hospitality, it’s true) and suffering from a multi-faceted insurgency, messed over by Saudi handouts, jammed with internal refugees, I suspect many people are going to be wiped out in flash floods both financially and literally.

Those weird trees in Socotra may come down. I have the weirdest ideas about what is important.

Not enough production to send stuff off to mOm, but some, anyway.  Had the worst burger in many years at Anny’s.  I SHOULD HAVE HAD THE PUTIN. I mean poutine.  I mean the smoked meat sammie.  Anything but what I ate.

The food was not cooked with love.

I shouldn’t complain, a friend took me out to dinner.

MY WRITING DESK IS SET UP.  Yay? The wireless barely works there, and yet it’s less than two metres from where I usually surf.

Happy Halloween for those who care.  I’m not participating this year. It’s the new Grinch look on me, what do you think?

I was too worried about Margot, who is recovering nicely, to do more. Lovely walk and lunch and music and Margot fetching with Paul in the afternoon while it wasn’t raining.

Jeff had an encounter with a skunk this morning when he went to fetch Margot soft food.  Fortunately his kindness was not rewarded with a (E )-2-butene-1-thiol and 3-methyl-1-butanethiol cocktail.

I’ve already written some this morning, so that makes me happy.

 

Three thousand words to go!  That’s for the second book.  Then ALL THE DENOUMENTS BAYBEE.  I have made big messes and now they must be fixed.

 

 

I’m off to feed Ayesha.

Margot is having her teeth cleaned and her abscess drained on Thursday.  I didn’t even know she had anything wrong with her until the vet pointed it out last week.

Took Katie driving yesterday. She’s going to be a fine driver but needs the practice.  I had a super brief encounter with Alex; it takes him a while to warm up to me but he was smiling and running and kicking a ball to me within minutes.  As usual I made no attempt to pick him up.

592 words yesterday on a subject dear to my heart.

932 words today.  Off to feed Ayesha.

I managed to go back to bed and wake up around 8 but I feel blerllghly or some analog of that word.

Paul has loaned me his car while he and Keith are in London ON.  I will go get some groceries shortly.

A couple of hundred words.  I really feel like I’m getting my money’s worth from this toothpaste tube.

I’ve been walking in the lovely October sunshine – more walkies with Paul yesterday afternoon at the Quay, plus yummy tortilla soup, and then more writing, just a drib around 100 words but very promising.  Any interactions between Michel and Theo are always welcome, and this one promises to amuse while advancing Theo’s new goal in life.  Most of the characters have been approaching me and asking me to stop giving them dialogue they wouldn’t actually say.

New addition to the Blogroll, Eclectic Explorations.

I think I have thought my way out of the box. The writing box.  We shall see.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.  Yes, WHY would I ask you to watch this remarkable 16 minute video….  Well, it’s like a 16 minute preview of the election campaign. Everybody thinks Justin Trudeau is a lightweight going into the fight.  Watch and be unintentionally impressed.  This is a fight for charity.  There are SO many interesting little tidbits in this fight and in the commentary and byplay, I will be watching it again for sure.  I knew about it and Shirley on fb already told me to watch it but Mike showed it last night.

Pork chops, cannelloni beans and onions in the crockpot for supper – I took a bunch over to Mike for dins.  (It was SUPER TASTY) He had beer!  Also, the pummelling – my shoulders are MUCH better this morning.

Magnanimous in victory, unrepentant in defeat.  That’s how I hope to be in any contest.

Super weird dreams.  There was a WALL OF COMIC BOOKS. and the teenager had to be told we could not escape across the desert with all of them.  AND I had to wash dishes first, while everybody else messed off to play with the Van de Graaf Generator. The great big sparky thing, not the noted prog rock band from the 60’s and 70’s which reformed in this millennium and occasionally still plays.

Hurricane Patricia is exceeding strong and is going to beat up parts of the US. It’s already registering off the charts for windspeed.  The last time something this big made landfall 6300 people died in the Philippines although to be fair if the authorities had taken the NOAA warnings and those of their own weather scientists seriously and done the math regarding the storm surge there would have been fewer dead.

I am covered in powdered sugar.  I walked back in the cool predawn and grabbed a couple of croissants for me and Jeff for brekky.

Took Miss Margot yesterday to get her shots and a brief checkup.  She HATES ME TODAY and she has a tooth abscess I have to get dealt with.  Also, she DOES have fleas but not too bad.

I think I am working on a new tune.  I’ll get back to you on that.

 

108 words.  Go to the ant thou sluggard.

Feeling migrainous so off for a walk.