Government is too big

"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have."
--Gerald Ford

Facts

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
--Aldous Huxley

NaNoWriMo update

One third of the way done, at 16,686 words in ten days.

I'm using Write or Die, which is a huge help. You can set a goal of how much you want to write in what time period, and it gives you a timer countdown and a word count. And if you stop typing for a few seconds, the screen starts turning red. No time for woolgathering, just write! This is incredibly useful, as when I'm just hammering out words instead of stopping to polish every one, I can get over 500 words in less than 20 minutes. Do that three or four times a day, and you're on pace.

NaNoWriMo update

The goal is 50,000 words in thirty days, which works out to 5000 words every three days. Today's the sixth and I'm on schedule at 10,033 words. At 250 words per page, that's 40 pages.

Incidentally, at the Write In group, the lowest total I heard was 1700, the highest was 36,000.

Post # 500

I started this blog on November 1, 2008. This is post #500. Not as high a count as I'd originally had in mind--I'd intended to post every day--but a lot higher than it would have been if I'd done nothing.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

Arrrgh--a movie by Terry Gilliam!

Election Night

Good election results. Now it's time for good government results.

Diana went to the victory party for Scott Rigell, who's a member of our church and is now slated to be a Congressman. 

I stayed home and wrote fiction, over 1100 words, at a rate of around 500 words an hour.