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Updates for the week of 2009-11-29

  • Lots to create today. Words to write and words to read and record with new microphone. All that is very likely the next six hours or so. #
  • New 'Noveller' Allows People To Post Novels They Write During Course Of Their Day | The Onion – http://tinyurl.com/yg7h2kd #
  • Thanks! I liked this one. RT @janetwro Great encouragement. @doycet : #NaNoWriMo: I feel like you need a pep talk. http://bit.ly/6f2Csk/ #
  • The 50 most interesting articles on Wikipedia (http://j.mp/5V0h2c) – Whoa. #
  • Seriously, @daphneun summoned Ninja-action Bowling Jesus tonight. I am in awe. #
  • What's worse: having to go to a starbucks, or the quarter mile hike to reach it, due to all the people parked inside for the day? #
  • (Answer is #1 – it was actually a nice brisk morning for a walk.) #
  • Me: I think you're going to be a great reader. // Daughter (distraught): NO, Daddy; I want to be an ARTIST. (Sad.) But I can't draw cats. #
  • My #nanowrimo post for Thanksgiving Day is … inspired. Just a little. I'm pleased. Now, for actual story-writing. #
  • Muppets singing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" (http://j.mp/7PocpC) – Brilliant. Watch to the very end. #
  • Adrift: The main question: why’s the station think Deirdre’s the Scourge, which wiped out hu.. http://bit.ly/8okJk4 #
  • Let the Stuffing of '09 begin. http://is.gd/52Y3B #
  • Damn. My house smells like someone set a farmer's market on fire, using maple trees. Yum. #
  • http://twitpic.com/qvey6 – My rearview mirror for the next 10 hours #
  • Rt @davisac1 Dismayed to find, after checking dozens of times, my #NaNoWriMo progress meter does not go up by itself. #
  • Really horrible little episode of "Things You Always Hear Happen in Hotel Rooms But Never Really Happen, Right?" Wow. #
  • I Am The Anti-Thanks, I Am The Spleenful Turkey (http://j.mp/69Z3hK) – Agree on all counts. #
  • Guys, if you missed it before, this: #NaNoWriMo: In Which You are a Turkey-day Ninja http://bit.ly/8Fn1VH/ (Thanks for the RT @ChuckWendig) #
  • HOW TO Make Some Truly Wonderful Sweet Potatoes (http://j.mp/6ZPCDM) – Pretty sure this is my grandmother's recipe, and it's awesome. #
  • #Nanowrimo people, it's still not too late to save yourself this Thanksgiving: http://bit.ly/8Fn1VH/ #
  • Adrift: I ask Deirdre is she’s Scourge. She responds by asking if I’m all right. She’s.. http://bit.ly/8cOst7 #
  • Pictures of National Geographic Photography Contest 2009 (http://j.mp/7IkkpX) – These are just gorgeous. #
  • I'm thankful for — seriously? I'm the luckiest guy alive. I'm thankful for that. #
  • Hey: #followfriday @saucy_dryad – she should have more people reading her; she's funny. #
  • #NaNoWriMo: Cracking the WIP (http://j.mp/4Ovmm1) – Terrible pun, useful advice. #
  • #nanowrimo people: BACK UP YOUR WORK. Doo eeet. Use @dropbox (I do, and love it), or just email to yourself, but make a copy /somewhere/. #
  • Best New Moon review evar. http://is.gd/54UOF #
  • Several hours of writing time turned into emergency lifeguard duty. Hoping my Doc Martens survive the chlorine bath. #
  • Poolside rescue effort means that I have #nopants until Sunday. #
  • Rt @glecharles It's much harder to forgive a typo when there's any indication that a thesaurus was involved. #
  • Terrible nights sleep, drerams filled with drowning kids and missed writing deadlines. #
  • Back in the green on my #nanowrimo word count, thanks to an afternoon in hermit-mode at the hotel. Now: family time! (more writing tonight) #
  • I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets – http://w33.us/7w7 #