Catching up

My blogging seems to go in fitful spurts puncutated by days of inactivity...

The Tcl/Tk conference in Portland was great. It's quite possibly one of my favorite annual events. There are always interesting talks and presentations. Will Duquette, Steve Landers, Jean-Claude Wipler, Jeff Hobbs and many others are always doing really interesting work.

In the week since I've gotten back from Portland I've tried to get started on a NaNoWriMo entry for this year, but one week into November and I've only got a couple of pages written. I'm still miles and miles away from the 50,000 word goal with only one nagging problem: I don't have a plot idea that I'm terribly excited about yet. I suppose that might explain my sluggish writing so far. Anyone have plot suggestions?

I've spent quite a few evenings working on Project Eueler math/programming problems. As of right now I've solved 70 problems for a total of 959 (out of 1,607 possible) points. That puts me in 113th place overall and 3rd place among Tcl'ers.

On Wednesday night Shauna sprung on me the idea of selling our house and buying one a couple of streets over (in our same subdivision). I didn't tell her no; I suggested she look into it further and gather more information. Well, when Shauna wants to get something done she's not one to dilly-dally. Within less than twenty-six hours of her floating the idea we had a signed, sealed & accepted offer to buy our neighbors home on January 16, 2006. Rachael wants to see pictures. I don't have any, and Shauna hasn't joined the ranks of blogging family members, so perhaps Rachael can pester either one of our realtors...

—Michael A. Cleverly
Sunday, November 06, 2005 at 21:03

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