For my three readers that stop by on a quasi-semi-regular basis, you’re probably stunned to see a new post here. It’s nice to be surprised every once in a while, isn’t it?
The thing is that writing has been on my mind lately, and I’ve been pondering and cobbling together bits of a story that will eventually become a full-fledged novel. I haven’t written fiction in a long time, and I’m mentally stiff and creatively out of shape. What I wrote this weekend took way more effort than I expected. It was the creative equivalent of trying to eat a candy apple.
They say the more you write, the better you get, but I wouldn’t know because I’m always restarting from square one. One of the reasons I started a blog was so I would stay in the practice of writing something — anything — no matter how little, on a regular basis. Even if I wasn’t working on anything else, I could mentally shadow box here. Obviously, I made the mistake of neglecting this space. Then again, maybe I needed to be away from it for while, so I could miss it, and get to that point where I wanted to be back here, you know.
So, most of the people in my Inner Circle know that a few years ago, Todd quit keeping a personal blog. Well, under threat of being forced to watch Richard Simmons’s 20th Anniversary Edition of Sweatin’ To The Oldies, he’s back on The Tubes. His blog is here.
Oh, yeah. He and his wife, Yuko, had a baby boy, Lio, on Saturday. (Yep, you read that right.) He doesn’t have a blog entry posted yet, but don’t let that stop you from going over and saying hi.
Okay, I’m not really all that jazzed about Flock. I’ve tried it before and thought “meh”, but it’s been a while so I thought I would give it another go. This is just a simple test post to see how well it works.
I usually use Ecto at the house (Mac), and ScribeFire on Firefox when I’m at work (PC), but I try to give other options a fair shake if they look promising.
If any of you out there use Flock, feel free to give me a few tips on how to use it, or let me know some of the features you like.
This concludes the test of posting a blog entry with Flock.
We’ve been in the process of moving, and things are just piled and stacked everywhere. I haven’t had a chance to get much of anything sorted yet. I thought I would be able to get something done last night, but I was on-call for Traci and had to go watch the beast for a few hours. Most likely, I’ll be doing that again tonight.
On the upside, I now have every fight scene from Spider-Man 2 and 3 committed to memory. Quinn, who will be three in a few months, loooves Spider-Man. He’ll watch it, and just pick some random line to repeat. The other day, he climbed into the chair with me and said, “Avenge me. Avenge me, Uncle Chris. Uncle Chris, avenge me, okay?”
