These are not resolutions in the New Year’s Eve ‘I’m going to promise to utterly change my life, eat right, exercise, and then feel awful when I fail’, but rather SMART goals that I want to achieve in the coming year. Continue reading
While there are many things I am looking forward to in 2012, there are also sadly many things I would love to do or take part in that I know I will have to give a miss this year.
So, now let’s look at the second of 2012 and see what sort of thing your humble host and narrator might be interested in.
The last week has been both good and bad. It was a good christmas with my sweetie-wife surprising me with a couple of gifts I did not expect her to pick-up for me. (HALO: Combat Evolved Anniversary Edition & Ben-Hur 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition Blu-Ray) I had good time with my sweetie-wife, friends and even squeezed in a decent movie on Christmas morning. (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. A good film but not a movie for you if you expect all your spy films to have lots of action, chases, and scantily clad babes.)
It’s been a bad week arthritis-wise. It started badly A week ago Monday and got progressively worse through the week. By the weekend my fingers hurt constantly and I could’t play the new video game I had received for Christmas. By Sunday night thanks to the weekly dosing of my meds, I was feeling better. However my fingers, stressed after a long hard day at work will not let me spend 90 minuets writing tonight. Which is a shame because I have finally figured out the plotting to my next short story, a story that is a commitment to my writer’s group project.
To everyone who stops by and checks out a ffew of this posts I wish you a Maryy Chirstmas and Happy Holidays for what flavor of winter Solitice you celebrate.
May love, luck, and happiness be yours.
Today was the forth anniversary of me and my sweetie-wife getting married. IT’s been a good four year and I can say that I am a happy mna.
So this morning was a trip to the World Famous San Diego Zoo with my sweetie-wofe. We had a very nice and got in a some decent exercise. Afterwards we went to a new place for Lunch, the Sea Rocket. This was an upscale bistro kind of place, so not my usual haunt. The food was good, the services was excellent and we enjoyed ourselves. (Though the burger I ordered was too large to eat like a hamburger and I was forced to utilize knife and forke to tackel the thing.)
Then it was grocery shopping and home. The entire time I had my mind gnawing and working on a problem in my newest novel. I have been going like gangbusters on the outline, it’s now up to 24 pages, and this week I came to a sudden and terrible halt. Partly because of the huge load of work that descended upon us at my day job, partly because of the arthritis flare that took me out of typing commission at home, and partly because I knew I was stuck for what was going to happen next in the plot.
If you think of the plot as a number line I was at 18, and I knew what happened from 23 on, but 19, 20, 21, & 22 were leaving me stumped. Today I think I cracked the problem. I’m going to sleep on it and try writing it out tomorrow, then I will know if it worked.
And I’ll close out with a photo from the zoo taken with my iPhone 4.
No writing tonight as the arthritis in my fingers has been hell today. I shouldn’t have been late on my medication last night.
So I started a new work schedule at my day-job this week. Instead of working 8-5 I will now be working 7-4. Getting home earlier is nice, but my body hasn’t yet adjusted to getting up a little earlier. As such I’m a little fogged of mind and will not likely be doing any writing this week. (Also there is a convention, World Fantasy here in San Diego, starting on Thursday.)
It’s a shame about the writing as I just cracked a plotting problem for my SF noir idea. (Currently titled in my head “The Long Night.”) I did not want my lead character to be a cop or P.I., but rather someone not normally seen in the role of unraveling a mystery. I’ll make sme notes but not much more tonight.
Here are my latest movies on blu-ray.
A first rate superhero film and an excellent lead into next years The Avengers.
For the price I couldn’t turn down a blu-ray set of all three films with bonus material. (My set does not have the swag, it’s just the three discs. I dislike unusual packaging as it never fits well in my cases.)