Oh, the places you haven't been... But your new computer has.

Okay. I've been to Signal Hill and, of course, Long Beach. But not the others.

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.

Fake Steve on S. C.

His biting take.

Apple of my eye.

A guilty pleasure that I must share. The Secret Diary of Fake Steve Jobs. Despite not having the budget to indulge myself (consumerism is crass anyway - at least that's what I keep telling myself), I am a tremendous Apple fan-boy. This blog (beautifully rendered by Steve Lyons of Forbes mag.) is funny, de jour and epic. It doesn't hurt that Fake Steve seems to be a big Obama fan...