Stop... Novel time. (Cue the music.)

The new computer is way fun, but I need to start doing what I got it for. Man, it's hard. There are still so many distracting things about the darned thing, I could just play with it for hours without performing one single action that could be construed as productive. I keep finding myself going “Oooh, that's neat” and getting really sidetracked for about 30 minutes. For example - I transferred all of the pictures from the digital camera. I'd been hoarding them until I got this machine (plus I can't figure out how to erase the memory card). Now I have about 1800 pics to label and organize. That's going to take some time. Fortunately I've got this thingimabob to keep me on task.

What I really need to be doing if finishing one of these damn books that I've started. I've got 4-5 in process and that's kind of useless. I've decided to finish the one that I estimate is the furthest along. It's a chaotic little romp I'm calling Departmental. My Big Hairy Audacious Goal - or B-HAG, if you will - is to get it done, edited by me and a committee of interested parties and self-published through Amazon's CreateSpace by the end of June. That's right... I said June. [NB - Someone on the train smells like the Platonic idea of unwashed ass right now. My eyes are going to start watering. I hope my new MacBook doesn't melt. That would piss me right off.] I'll have to get that big writer's book and start looking for agents/publishers. Sound good? Thought so. (BTW - my first step in getting back into the noveling business is creating likeness of my characters with my Nintendo Wii.)

This means the blog might get spotty. I say 'might' only because since I started this year on such a blogging tear, I now think in blog form, and I don't know if I can stop myself. This blog thing has been liberating. Maybe I could just write all the time. That's probably a better idea.

I should take this moment to shill for the sweet web-service Netvibes. I wouldn't be able to keep up with the primary news without it. I really love it. I also like that they name their releases after spices. The current public release is called Coriander, which I like to put in my guacamole. I was lucky enough to nose into a small private beta test for the upcoming release - Ginger. This is another favorite spice. I could eat barrels of pickled ginger. Anyway, check it out.

Well, I've got to get my 4 gigs of new RAM installed. Good times.