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From Twitter 10-13-2010

12:27:19: Chilean miners' rescue proceeding smoothly--18 so far.
22:59:34: 2nd Durufle rehearsal a lot gnarlier than the first. Then traffic jam, then check-engine light and a long, dark road home. Wiped.

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From Twitter 10-12-2010

06:39:47: RT @vondanmcintyre: Another October, another Nobel Literature laureate who isn't Ursula K. Le Guin. Sigh.
10:18:15: RT @robinmckinley: Yes. It takes a *scientist* to tell us this?* http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/12/dogs-optimists-pes ...
10:18:27: RT @NASA: It's Earth Science Week! Check out the NASA resources available for teachers & students. http://climate.nasa.gov/esw2010/
10:42:20: New post up at http://www.paksworld.com/blog/ on process and progress.
18:05:21: Neighbor w/kid in FFA came by; we ordered a ham for Thanksgiving. (Of course there's turkey too.)
22:44:45: RT @patinagle: RT @Cadigan: Twitter--& the whole web--settles the question re a million monkeys w/typewriters producing Shakespeare: nope.

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From Twitter 10-11-2010

07:40:21: RT @ColleenLindsay: Today is National Coming Out Day: Is someone you know struggling to take that brave first step out of the closet? ht ...
07:44:57: Manuscript now covered with multicolored Post-It notes because I got lost moving chunks around. #writing
10:28:21: Banana bread in oven. I had no idea how much of a stick of butter it took to have 1/3 cup of melted butter...yeesh.
10:29:06: Book progress--almost done with bridge section between chrono sections P and A.
10:43:08: Smelling banana bread in oven. Hope it tastes as good as it smells. (And thx to @KSmithSF for recipe.)
16:29:26: RT @Anti_Intellect: Retweet if you have a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered friend in your life that you love & accept unconditio ...
16:45:18: Big T-storm grumbling louder and louder just a bit north of us. Time to turn things off, shut windows.

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From Twitter 10-10-2010

18:08:47: RT @vondanmcintyre: Chapter 4 of Nautilus, Book 4 of Starfarers Quartet, featured today at Book View Cafe. http://www.bookviewcafe.com/

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The Week Ahead

Continue "braid" of POV strands of book, and writing connective tissue.   Casting cold eye on certain scenes, as I need to free up wordage for stuff at the end and missing bits in the middle.   Really, really, really need to get this monster in shape.

Practice music for a) lesson Wednesday afternoon,  and b) great big Durufle rehearsal Wednesday night.  Finish transferring director's marks to score of Durufle (they're up online...) and make sure to know the tricky bits so won't be thrown off by others who don't.

Make banana bread tomorrow, as the bananas are now at the overripe mushy stage.

Make chicken stock (we're out and winter's coming.)   This involves a trip to the big grocery that will take (travel time included) a couple of hours. 

Find another chunk of Mr. Muscle to turn into soup/stew for friends still recovering from flood...they liked the first batch and would like more.  Should deliver that Saturday, which means starting with the frozen meat on Thursday and making the soup on Friday.

Farrier will be here Friday to prune hooves on DramaQueen and BananaFace.  That means I can schedule a vet visit for next week, maybe, but also means I need to do some ground work on those two every day before farrier comes, as they haven't been worked since before Dragon*Con.  





 

From Twitter 10-09-2010

06:26:08: RT @kaysea14: What a scientist didn't tell the New York Times about his study on bee deaths http://t.co/VyoQXqL via @FortuneMagazine
06:26:30: RT @DeviPillai: Jim Butcher: I don't have writers block, I have a mortgage. #nycc
06:42:26: Off to rehearsal...the first for the Durufle "Requiem" we're doing in early November. All day today.
16:45:03: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Sarah Zettel: new chapter in Camelot's Blood - read it for free at http://www.book ...
19:28:53: Today's discovery...I like the Durufle "Requiem" after all. Just needed the right director and choir to sing it with.
19:30:43: Needed long nap when I got home, though. Mental concentration of hours of that kind of singing wears me out.

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From Twitter 10-08-2010

07:56:01: Another day, another battle with recalcitrant plot-threads. Some problems, solved in theory, require yet more work. @writing
08:14:37: RT @NASA: [News] NASA Selects Community College Students To Design Rovers And Explore Technology Careers At Field Centers: C... http://b ...
09:54:22: New post up at http://www.paksworld.com/blog/ on progress of the "braid" of POV sections.
15:09:21: RT @VivirLatino: Hawaii family fights deportation of son with Down syndrome (&younger brother) w/ no family in Korea to take care of him ...
18:30:16: RT @Quotes4Writers: "One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life. ...
18:32:01: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Jennifer Stevenson: new chapter in Fool's Paradise - read it for free at http://ww ...
18:32:05: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe:Today's Special from Patricia Rice: new chapter in The Trouble With Magic - read it for free at http://w ...

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From Twitter 10-07-2010

08:11:21: RT @garethlpowell: Some notes and quotes from last night's talk by William Gibson: http://www.garethlpowell.com/william-gibson-at-the-wa ...
11:22:40: RT @NASA: For play-by-play from an astronaut's perspective leading up to the Expedition 25 launch at 7:10pmET, follow @Astro_Ron
11:23:36: Alternating braiding plot strands and writing to fill gaps. #amwriting
13:18:27: RT @NASA: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is set to launch at 7:10pET. NASA TV coverage begins at 6:15p. Watch live: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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13:19:24: RT @TransEquality: Bullying, Transgender Students and the Risk of Suicide http://conta.cc/d56OBo via #constantcontact

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From Twitter 10-06-2010

07:07:57: RT @NASA: Satellite data shows Arctic sea ice at 3rd lowest level on record at its 2010 minimum last month. http://go.usa.gov/aOk
10:41:18: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff: new chapter in A Princess of Passyunk - free at http://www ...
10:41:27: RT @patinagle: RT @bookviewcafe: Today's Special from Jay Caselberg: new chapter in Binary - read it for free at http://www.bookviewcafe.com
11:42:43: Hilarious social-networking map http://xkcd.com/802/ RT from @robinmckinley
12:00:48: RT @NASA: More than 30 terabytes of NASA Earth satellite data sent to Africa to support sustainable development. http://go.usa.gov/ace
12:10:05: UPS delivered half of new garden cart kit. Box 2 of 2. Kind of need both.
15:01:52: Just made apple dessert w/o recipe that was really good. Though sugar, cinnamon, butter, apples pretty much redeem anything else in pan.
23:16:13: Wired has great interview with first autistic presidential appointee: http://tinyurl.com/2cptc8p

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Writer's Block: Open book test

Based on the books on your bookshelf, what conclusions would people draw about you?

Submitted By bouhaki

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That I read a lot.  Bookshelves in every room, all stuffed.  That I'm interested in many different things: history, anthropology, neurology & cognitive science, education, natural history (shelves of field guides), ecology, wildlife management, horses, child development.  That I read a lot of genre fiction and nongenre fiction, though the fiction accounts for less than half the total.  That I re-read books, and buy a lot of used books as well as new ones.   That at one time I studied Latin and classical Greek, and at least dabbled in  French and German (judging by the dictionaries.)   Because it's obvious that I buy used books, the wear on the books is not always evidence of how often I re-read them.  However, the dust on top of some shows I haven't re-read them in awhile.  

And that there are not enough bookshelves in this house.