Monthly Archives: November 2016
The Last 13 Things I Have Done
In reverse order: 1. Come up with this post. 2. Read a few chapters of a manga called Gantz. 3. Realized I needed a T13 post. Drew a blank. 4. Read a few chapters of a manga called History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi. 5. Snacked on carrots. 6. Read Gantz 7. Discussed snow storms and travel plans 8. Ate seafood stir fry for supper. 9. Ok, there’s a lot more reading and eating, but I’ll skip to more highlights. Went to […]
Suzie’s House 484: Jumping the Gun
“It’s not my fault.” Lisa sounded even more prickly than Tracy expected. “When did I say it’s your fault.” Tracy couldn’t help getting a little defensive as she leaned over to look at Lisa’s laptop. “I’m just saying…. I don’t know! It’s just… forty two? Seriously? Only forty two?” “That’s forty two hits in two days, and it’s only on youtube. I mean, we haven’t put the music video anywhere else yet. Right? Once we get it on Facebook and […]
Black Friday
When did Black Friday become a good thing? yeah, I’m behind the times. The original deaths were years and years ago. It’s just that I never felt compelled to join the crush just for a random chance at maybe a good deal on a handful of items. I did try it once, years ago. By the time I got there around nine am the shelves with the good deals were all stripped bare already. None of it was stuff I […]
Suzie’s House 483 : Making Movies
Lisa wasn’t sure if she could use any of the film footage later, but she certainly was having fun. She dropped to her knees in front of Bruce, panned up along his stand to the underside of his keyboard, then zoomed in on his face. Normally she considered Bruce’s innate machismo nauseating. He was too brutal to be an oaf, but not smooth enough to be cool. Or so she thought until today. On film, with that narrow-eyed, knowing expression […]
NaNoWriMo
Seems like I hardly even announced that I was participating in this years National Novel Writing Month before I won it! This does not mean the book it done. I have a long way to go in search of a completed plot line, but I’ve achieved the 50,000 plus words of the NaNo challenge. Yay! Every book is a little different. This one was quite a bit different in process than previous efforts. I did not write anything out ahead […]
13 Words
Guess who is trying to come up with a Thursday Thirteen after bad time? 1. National 2. Novel 3. Writing 4. Month 5. is 6. in 7 November. 8. How 9. many 10. words 11. have 12. you 13. written? I’m up to 40,000 already. It’s one of my better noveling years. The photo is from dolphin chasing in Bali.
Suzie’s House 482 : Bearding the Lion
On one of those rare days when Miranda made it home early but Vin was still out working, she sat in their room and painted her nails. Yesterday they were red talons. Today she’d only had time to add a pink top edge to hide the chipping. Today she’d go with tri-color slanted stripes. She had all but one nail done when the kids knocked on her door.
10 Years
I missed my ten-year blog anniversary. It came and went last September. I didn’t notice. A lot has changed in ten years. Back then I lived in a different city, though still Western Montana. My kids were in grade school. My world revolved around parent teacher meetings, cooking, cleaning, and this newfangled thing called the internet. Avon – the publisher, not the location – held a contest for new authors. I participated in that contest. It is still vivid in […]
Roofer
Carl hadn’t gone up on a roof himself in ten years. With one thing or another, his whole crew walked just as the millionaire hired him to roof a set of three. He scraped his knees and bruised his thumb, but got it done. Even the last roof with all the color tiles that had to be done just so – he did it on deadline. When he went for his pay, the owner changed his mind. He wanted the […]
13 New To Me Bands/Musicians
Recently I’ve been discovering bands and musicians I really like that turn out to have been around for a while. Sometimes quite a while. It reminds me of when a friend discovered Pink Floyd about ten years ago. How did I miss these guys the first time around? Some haven’t been around all that long, but clearly a lot of people already know about them. 1. Dave Navarro
The Fish Market
Right before we left Flores to return to Bali, we stopped off at a fish market. This is, apparently, a regular part of the tour that some of the tourists have complained about. The market in question is not for tourists. There are a lot of fish. And it can be a bit odoriferous. It wasn’t any worse than I would expect, but not something you want to be smelling in an enclosed airplane a little later. The variety was […]
A Look Back at Indonesia
After the expedition to Rinca Island, the rest of the trip was about going home. We stopped off at a couple of places on Flores, like the fish market, but they were just short stops. We spent one last night in Denpasar but mostly to accommodate the airline schedules. The big event there was a last dinner together and an expedition to a large mall. Then it was a race around the rim of the Pacific to outrun a typhoon, […]
