Ominous silence.
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 7:18 pm
Yes, I know I've been very quiet the last few weeks. If you don't follow me on twitter, then you might not know why.
Every summer, my mother comes up from Florida and spends a month or so up here in West Virginia. When she does so, I curtail most other activities so I can spend time with her. I didn't play much Warcraft, didn't write much, about the only thing I managed was the occasional tweet. I think I only turned on this brand new computer maybe like 10 times in the last 3 weeks or so.
Well, when the tree hit my house, it screwed up our vacation plans to visit my sister in Maine, since I was going to pay for most of that trip. However, once my vacation started and we finished all the other stuff, we realized that since the damage to the house wasn't as bad as we feared, we had just enough money to make the trip if we pooled our assets, and we still had some time to actually enjoy ourselves up there. So, the next day, we jump in the car, drive 18 hours, spend 4 days up there, and drive 16 back (had a much smoother return trip), and we do it all on a shoestring budget that just barely got us back home with a half a tank of gas.
For those curious, it's about 950 miles, or about 1520 kilometers, from my house here in WV to my sister's house in Maine.
This morning, my mom up and decides that she's tired and ready to go home, so after driving 16 hours the previous day, she got in her car today and started her 15 hour trip back to Florida. For a 70 year old, that woman has lots of energy, and is much crazier than I am.
So, everything around here will now get back to some semblance of normal. Now that I've gotten all the "just got home" chores done, like laundry and restocking the fridge and mowing since it rained like EVERY DAY here in WV while I was gone and that makes the grass grow like crazy, I'm ready for some good old domestic boredom.
On the writing landscape, I've decided that chapter 13 will be the last chapter of Inception. After I finish it, I'll write another chapter in Fox and the Hawk, then I'll begin the last book of the Walker series, Walker of the Path.
Every summer, my mother comes up from Florida and spends a month or so up here in West Virginia. When she does so, I curtail most other activities so I can spend time with her. I didn't play much Warcraft, didn't write much, about the only thing I managed was the occasional tweet. I think I only turned on this brand new computer maybe like 10 times in the last 3 weeks or so.
Well, when the tree hit my house, it screwed up our vacation plans to visit my sister in Maine, since I was going to pay for most of that trip. However, once my vacation started and we finished all the other stuff, we realized that since the damage to the house wasn't as bad as we feared, we had just enough money to make the trip if we pooled our assets, and we still had some time to actually enjoy ourselves up there. So, the next day, we jump in the car, drive 18 hours, spend 4 days up there, and drive 16 back (had a much smoother return trip), and we do it all on a shoestring budget that just barely got us back home with a half a tank of gas.
For those curious, it's about 950 miles, or about 1520 kilometers, from my house here in WV to my sister's house in Maine.
This morning, my mom up and decides that she's tired and ready to go home, so after driving 16 hours the previous day, she got in her car today and started her 15 hour trip back to Florida. For a 70 year old, that woman has lots of energy, and is much crazier than I am.
So, everything around here will now get back to some semblance of normal. Now that I've gotten all the "just got home" chores done, like laundry and restocking the fridge and mowing since it rained like EVERY DAY here in WV while I was gone and that makes the grass grow like crazy, I'm ready for some good old domestic boredom.
On the writing landscape, I've decided that chapter 13 will be the last chapter of Inception. After I finish it, I'll write another chapter in Fox and the Hawk, then I'll begin the last book of the Walker series, Walker of the Path.