Laptop

I've been looking around for a laptop for a while; today I found a $450 Asus that was reduced to an open-box price of $319, so I picked it up. I believe Asus describes it as "Brown Suit" but I prefer "Mocha color". I suspect I'll end up adding some gears and brass filigree to the case and calling it "Professor Babbage's Patent Galvanic Difference Engine".

Over 9000 !

Did another 1000 words tonight, which puts me over 9000 for the month.

Kickstarter: Schlock Mercenary game

Kickstarter page is here; Howard Taylor talks about it here.

Eggnog season

First eggnog of autumn. Lots of nutmeg. Yum.

Guy Fawkes Day

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

Gunpowder treason and plot.

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

NaNoWriMo

Got over 2000 words written today, which brings me to 4207--a bit behind pace, as I should be at 6670, but I'll make up some of the deficit tomorrow. Our Hero has discovered a mystery...

Shark

At work, sometimes I get up and walk around, just to be away from my desk for a couple of minutes; sometimes I walk through the sales floor. One of the sales guys said "Every time you do that, I feel like I'm seeing a shark fin slicing through the water. I get this sudden urge to look around and count my kids and make sure they're all still there."

And that's as it should be. :-)