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The snail was this year's mascot, just to remind m...

2008-12-01T09:46:00.000-08:00

The snail was this year's mascot, just to remind me to go a page at a time and I would get there in the end. My daughter (pictured) loved it: she's named it "bunny" due to the eye-stalks.

Also, it glows in the dark. (The snail, not the toddler.)

I hadn't even noticed the snail. How funny. In o...

2008-11-30T19:58:00.000-08:00

I hadn't even noticed the snail. How funny.
In one of those weird coincidences I enjoy so much, I have had an enormous plastic snail on my desk at work for the past five years or so.
And on my Remington Standard typewriter at home is a mascot loaned to me by my 6-year-old son Geddy: a purple plastic turtle with googly eyes.

What does this mean? What's the significance? I don't know.

For whatever reason, I love this picture. Particu...

2008-11-30T19:47:00.000-08:00

For whatever reason, I love this picture. Particularly the snail. ;-)

I have been to the mountaintop, but have not yet s...

2008-11-28T12:09:00.000-08:00

I have been to the mountaintop, but have not yet seen the other side.

I need to get just over 8k words in the next two days. Got some in-laws comin' for turkey. Got some weekend shift working to do (why does my turn to man the weekend shift always pop up in late November?!) and some sick-kid tending and a gimpy typewriter I just can't stop fiddlin' with.

Yep, I've got this novel right where I want it.