Happy New Year.
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lenora_roseProgress notes for January 2, 2007:
Soldier of the Road
New Words: around 3400, but see below
Reason for stopping: My body aches and would rather stretch out than slump at the computer.
Tea: Earlier, plain orange pekoe with Saskatoon berry honey, now hot apple cider.
Music: Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball and Stumble into Grace.
Can't stop fidgeting: The above word count isn't all new; I'd say 70% yes, 30% old stuff snuck in. This was the rest of the fixing of my original bad beginning, and continuing on. I'm a way into chapter two.
Inevitable Asides:
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forodwaith, I got your phone message (You missed me by a whole five minutes - sorry!), and it sounds good to me so far. No Colin and I got busy with other things, so we haven't gone to the movie yet, so you and I can still do so. Thursday sounds fine; choir practice doesn't restart until next week.
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New Year's day was fun, in spite of a huge dumping of snow December 30th and early on the 31st, which resulted in shovelling heaps of the stuff over a foot tall before we could go anywhere (Not that I should complain: I did the front walk and sidewalk, Colin did the back, porch and driveway. Even better, though, our neighbour's foster son cleared the first chunk of alley between our houses, which made it far easier to actually get out.)
We did make the trip out of town; the main highways were plowed, and the minor one we took for one stretch was half-plowed, which meant enough room for two cars, but Colin still almost ended up int a snowbank when he tried to give the guy coming the other way enough room and overcompensated. We were travelling in a convoy of three cars for safety (It occurred to me later that we were few enough for two cars, and should ahve gone that way.)
Alas, we mostly played board games and video games, things we could have done in the city. Tomaas and I were the ony ones who went out into the snow to wade about, frolic, build forts in his case, squash them flat in mine, make snow angels (And a small snow shark) and try unsuccessfully to make snowballs (It was *just* too cold for the snow to pack right). Since I can't aim and proved it with the few I did manage, no huge loss, but it also meant no snow-figures. I started getting weird ideas for them (Besides the snow chessboard others had been talking about), and I didn't get tio implement any. Well, we have a front yard. If, unlikely now until March, the weather warms enough, I can always weird out the neighbours.
So, fun, and getting out of the house was good. And for me, worth being out at a farmhouse turned cabin with piles of snow all around.
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I've commented a few times on 2006 being a year of major life changes in most places; betrothals, marriages, births, deaths, major car accidents. Large moves to new places. A year of sharper than usual extremes of living. For me, most of the changes were good; my losses were all of acquaintances, each one notable and distressing, but not dire. Dick Eney I went to Viable Paradise with, and he contributed greatly there, and on the list since. A good writer, very knowledgeable on history, especially military; helpful and polite. John M. Ford was a flat out genius who certainly made a great deal of the light over at the Nielsen Haydens' place, but I never spoke or wrote to him save online. Harry Lehotsky was honoured in the city, and beloved by some of my friends, but I only saw him twice in my life. For me, it was the year I got married, the year I went back to University, the year my brother went to Grad School in Houston. The year many of my friends got engaged or married.
Soldier of the Road
New Words: around 3400, but see below
Reason for stopping: My body aches and would rather stretch out than slump at the computer.
Tea: Earlier, plain orange pekoe with Saskatoon berry honey, now hot apple cider.
Music: Emmylou Harris, Wrecking Ball and Stumble into Grace.
Can't stop fidgeting: The above word count isn't all new; I'd say 70% yes, 30% old stuff snuck in. This was the rest of the fixing of my original bad beginning, and continuing on. I'm a way into chapter two.
Inevitable Asides:
forodwaith, I got your phone message (You missed me by a whole five minutes - sorry!), and it sounds good to me so far. No Colin and I got busy with other things, so we haven't gone to the movie yet, so you and I can still do so. Thursday sounds fine; choir practice doesn't restart until next week.____________
New Year's day was fun, in spite of a huge dumping of snow December 30th and early on the 31st, which resulted in shovelling heaps of the stuff over a foot tall before we could go anywhere (Not that I should complain: I did the front walk and sidewalk, Colin did the back, porch and driveway. Even better, though, our neighbour's foster son cleared the first chunk of alley between our houses, which made it far easier to actually get out.)
We did make the trip out of town; the main highways were plowed, and the minor one we took for one stretch was half-plowed, which meant enough room for two cars, but Colin still almost ended up int a snowbank when he tried to give the guy coming the other way enough room and overcompensated. We were travelling in a convoy of three cars for safety (It occurred to me later that we were few enough for two cars, and should ahve gone that way.)
Alas, we mostly played board games and video games, things we could have done in the city. Tomaas and I were the ony ones who went out into the snow to wade about, frolic, build forts in his case, squash them flat in mine, make snow angels (And a small snow shark) and try unsuccessfully to make snowballs (It was *just* too cold for the snow to pack right). Since I can't aim and proved it with the few I did manage, no huge loss, but it also meant no snow-figures. I started getting weird ideas for them (Besides the snow chessboard others had been talking about), and I didn't get tio implement any. Well, we have a front yard. If, unlikely now until March, the weather warms enough, I can always weird out the neighbours.
So, fun, and getting out of the house was good. And for me, worth being out at a farmhouse turned cabin with piles of snow all around.
________________________
I've commented a few times on 2006 being a year of major life changes in most places; betrothals, marriages, births, deaths, major car accidents. Large moves to new places. A year of sharper than usual extremes of living. For me, most of the changes were good; my losses were all of acquaintances, each one notable and distressing, but not dire. Dick Eney I went to Viable Paradise with, and he contributed greatly there, and on the list since. A good writer, very knowledgeable on history, especially military; helpful and polite. John M. Ford was a flat out genius who certainly made a great deal of the light over at the Nielsen Haydens' place, but I never spoke or wrote to him save online. Harry Lehotsky was honoured in the city, and beloved by some of my friends, but I only saw him twice in my life. For me, it was the year I got married, the year I went back to University, the year my brother went to Grad School in Houston. The year many of my friends got engaged or married.
