Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow NOT!

Here I sit, stuck inside and writing away in the middle of a blizzard. This wasn’t eactly on my list of things to do believe me. We’ve gotten now almost two feet of snow since last night and it’s still falling rapidly. I’m not incredibly worried, as long as we dont lose power all should be fine, so far things seem to be going well in that department. There doesn’t appear to be much wind with this storm, just lots and lots of snow.

It’s an odd thing to think of, a blizzard here when the south is having warm tempreratures and tornadoes today. It does seem to be the day for strange and extreme weather, that is for certain. Then again, we are talking about Ohio, the weather is not anywhere near predicatable here. Just think, only a month ago we were still having almost spring like weather, and plants were starting to bloom out of season. Now it appears winter is hitting us finally, and seems to be determined to make up for lost time.

So here I sit, snug and warm from the laptop in bed, and I think I will just stay right here for now, unless I absolutely have to move. There’s nothing to do but work on the novel, and nowhere to go. (at least not if I have any common sense)

Greetings From Novel-Land

A few of my friends have wondered why I am posting here instead of the nice custom blog that is on my website. The answer is simple, I am still in the process of finishing the novel, now that I am back online and on a new computer. I am posting the rough draft of the novel, chapter by chapter to my blog as a means of backing it up. For the sake of keeping everything choronological, I have been making my random daily posts here instead of there.

Chapter 33 is presently in the works, and its been difficult getting back into the swing of writing again after not being able to for the last month or so. I knew the hard drive was going to go, it was just a matter of when, and thankfully, due to my backups, I only lost the majority of one chapter in the process. Now I am back, on a brand new computer, and there do not seem to be any issues to worry about for the forseeable future. (it’s back to work for me!) This novel needs to be done by the end of the month. Someone, light a fire under my hiney please, I am going to need it.

I’m Freakin Bored…

You can tell youve been in the house for two consecutive days due to cold and bad weather when strange random thoughts pop to mind and seem entertaining. You’ve got to love those random tidbits and oddities of small town life you don’t notice any other time.

In the town I live in:

Cream puffs are illegal after 10am

It is illegal to eat a donut while walking down the sidewalk backwards

We have intersections of Church & State, Washington & Delaware, and Mary & Joseph

A ball shaped black grantite headstone in the local cemetary rotates of its own accord.

Everything in town that can be called, “Harding” this or “Harding” that is, because President Warren G. Harding lived and is buried here

We have drive thru stores

We have so many sets of railroad tracks that we have 3 overpasses and you still cant get through town without getting stopped by a train

(Please pray school is back in session tomorrow Mom is going nuts)

A Pre-Bedtime Tangent

Well I am back, on a different computer, not that the old one isn’t being repaired. Common sense and my friend Wade have reminded me that I was overdue to invest in another system as a backup. I didn’t realize until I’d had these computer problems just how much of my daily work and routine truly does revolve around the internet. My writing, my design work, and music contacts, are recently almost completely web based.

I think more than anything I am dependent on the internet as a means of communication. I realized almost immediately that the thing that I missed the most was being able to talk to the friends I usually almost take for granted now in this small electronic version of a very big world, friends I would never have had the privlidge to know otherwise: Hannie, Mort, Greg, Ummie, Donna, Paula, Blaze, BA, Moonie, Jamie, David, Ben, Jill, and countless others.

If anyone had told me as a child that someday I would have friends all over the world, I don’t know if I could have fathomed it at all. So much in this life has changed, but even as things have brought the world closer, sometimes I wonder if it is all for the better. Even with all the good, I find it sad to know that this is truly not the same world that I grew up in. It seems too much of the mystery has been lost in so many things.

I remember a time when as a child we would wake up in the morning and go outside to play, and not come back in until the streetlights came on. (everyone with any brains knew your backside would feel it if you weren’t in when those lights started flickering to life) It seems nowdays those magical hours of playing and dreaming are spent lost to the internet, video games and a television screen. Where is the imagination? Its all gone missing! It seems our kids are spoon fed what the media wants them to see, its so ingrained in us, that it seems only the rare few ever break out of the mold and question it, and are made pariahs in the process. Is the price of fitting into the mold worth the cost of losing yourself along the way? It seems only I can answer that question…