tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16664363703164220332012-02-16T21:27:02.616-05:00Ramblings about everything from music to politics to chess to technology. Whatever is on my mind for the most part, but that is the beauty of blogs, right?QuietlyPassingByhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05463782768960920127noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1666436370316422033.post-65592384168167402262012-01-19T10:55:00.001-05:002012-01-19T10:57:37.019-05:00

What is on my mind?  Things on my mind right now are my glacially slow progress on my book, my "i" conversion, and the sad state of the potential Republican presidential ticket along with the dismal prospect of four more years of the empty suit in the White House.  I'll address each of these briefly. Where am I in my book?  Only 5,000 words further than the last time I wrote about it.  I crossed

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Well, I am 15,000 words into my book even with a serious hiatus for the Thanksgiving break.  I have now (with help) named all of my main characters and also decided to change major plot elements right in the middle of writing.  I know professional writers do this all the time, but it seems so strange to me to make MAJOR plot changes like this.  I know books are living and breathing and growing

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I just wanted to post this now that I have reread my previous post again...  I have been playing chess and I will be translating some of my games from my previous site to this one and posting some new ones, but I am dialed in on my book right now so it may be a while.  I will most likely write/convert these when writer's block creeps up on me (and once I figure out how to display them so you can

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I am 10,000 words into my book now, oh, I didn't mention my book before?  I know, I haven't mentioned it, sorry, but I had to open this post with something interesting.  I signed up for the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) event about halfway through November, which was kind of silly, since the goal of the event is for people to craft 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days.  Yes, that is

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I really suspected that I would be posting my old articles from my other site here first, but I have been unable to commit myself to converting those articles as yet.  I will, in time, but first I have to comment on our benevolent dictator-in-chief's latest attempts to wield power in a unconstitutional manner.  President Barack Obama's executive orders are a direct circumvention of the proper way

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The proverbial first post.  Silly. Mostly useless. "Hello, world!" and all that jazz.  I am in the process of moving my current website to here on blogger.com.  It will take a while to do that as I cull through the posts I made there to bring over only the ones that are still pertinent and possibly useful to someone other than me.  I will also be editing them for content and concurrency so that

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