We’re doing very little going-out, but we did shovel the drive to get the car out to head to Swinging Doors to have a story conference. There’s something comfy about one’s chosen dark sports bar\/watering hole that promotes better thinking—none of the chores waiting for us to distract us. <\/p>\n
We got more done in two hours than we could have done in a day of puttering around at home, in terms of idea-trading, and we’ve got story developing, which is a great feeling.<\/p>\n
Now more snow is coming and so long as the power doesn’t go out, we’re good. OTOH, having been through LAST year, we own a generator. And really, we don’t look for this to be as much snow, but it may be colder. Our house windows are in great shape now—used to have cracked glass, non-functional storm windows, and heat leakage; and now we’re just comfy. Was a huge hit on the pocketbook, but if we hadn’t fixed that front window, we’d have seen some more serious damage. Not to mention the mold source. <\/p>\n
So we face a year in which we are going to be cleaning out the (shudder) basement and garage. Jane’s determined on a garage sale, and I’ve sworn to the same. Moves from WA to OK, with 2 houses, then OK to here with two apartments and a house, have seen us outfit a new place and then have to re-outfit, and do it all again just way too many times. At one point, here in WA, we had 3 storage units because we just couldn’t figure what to let go of. THIS year, we swear we’re going to clear the decks and have what we actually need rather than what we might need someday. <\/p>\n
And we’re going to get a lot of writing done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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