I’ve spent the last few days outlining to the end (after remembering what the end is, and relocating it); and simultaneously recovering the blown-up 72 generation, 40,000 person genealogy file, bit by painful bit…
It’s funny. So much of the database work (genealogy) is just a matter of waiting for the db to wake up, then installing punctuation, all of it virtually hindbrain work, that I can actually do that and do some thinking, and all of a sudden pieces of the story were coming to me, even in the middle of parsing Welsh names…go figure.
It’s turned suddenly cold. OSG had a big flowerpot broken by a storm wind: I heard the weather warning and we ran out and battened down the patio set, put the fragiles into the house, and waited for the wind. We have gotten a little rain, which is a relief to the soul…I hate dry weather with a passion.
Lynn is back from DragonCon, and we should get a fix on that red type problem soon. Once I have some correspondence between my editing and my display in CC, I can seriously begin to put things together. Jane’s got several slide shows up, and in general it’s been a pretty productive weekend.
I think we’re making the turn into fall, now. The water temperature got to 58 last night and only made 62 today. We’re soon going to have to start feeding the koi only every three days. “Even though they’re babies?” Jane asks plaintively. That’s the way I understand we need to do, to be sure they don’t get a massive bellyache. But it’s supposed to warm next week, and we’ll just feed carefully, and stick to the wheat germ food, no more crustacean treats.
I’m glad you are now tagging your posts!
Sorry about that! I tend to go back through and tag the back ones, but I get so caught up in posting I forget the details! I’m the opposite of a scatterbrain—I focus, and consequently forget the peripherals…
Yay! I’m so happy for you! :DDD Funny how things can coalesce amidst other work (like you start washing the dishes and suddenly know exactly what your thesis and argument will be for that paper due next week, or the perfect algorithm to make that program behave the way you meant it to but somehow couldn’t seem to communicate to the computer). It’s wonderful when things just suddenly work, isn’t it? 🙂 We just had a weekend of rain here in Corvallis, OR, and I must say I’m rather looking forward to cooler weather… although not to biking to class in the rain (ugh, read lots of gore-tex and booties to keep my shoes marginally dry). It’ll be a relief to be able to keep my windows open and not return to a sauna once I’m back in the dorms, though.
I’ll tell you a deep, dark writing secret. The Russian bath-spirit, the bannik, is a great help to writers. If you’re stuck (in old Russia) you took a flask of vodka to the bath-house sauna and sat there until the bannik gave you an idea. A house really needs a resident bannik, usually in the shower. We’re cultivating ours.
Lol, my über-smiley split down the middle, becoming a yellow emoticon instead of a triple-happy-face… umm… testing?: “:DDD”
‘Kay, works inside quotes, but else becomes smiley-plus-DD
Yay for wonderful writing days! Endings are my favorite part: I love that feeling of all the dominoes starting to fall over in succession.
Turning toward fall here in Maine too: it’s still in the 70s during the day, but it’s dropped to the low 50s at night, and the leaves are just starting to turn. The early apple crop this year seems to have benefited from our non-summer: very sweet and crisp.
Now, let’s see if my gravatar came up properly this time…
Oh yay. It worked. 🙂
I am glad things are working out for you. It’s begining to cool off here in Las Vegas, too. It only got up to 101 F yesterday!
Can you say, in the 40’s at night, and 70’s during the day?
We’re starting to slack up on the fishes’ food, and as of today have withdrawn high-protein treats. It’s wheat germ and algae for them.
And they are slacking off in their interest in food, too.
^those temps sound perfect, and a bottle of vodka in the sauna isn’t bad 😉