Neil totally surprised me by handing me one for my birthday. I've put some neat things on there, but as I wasn't expecting to ever have one, I don't really know what's available. I'll have to look into it some more. Thanks Neil! 

Also got my new cell phone via Sean, after my old one up and died. I think I wrote about that. Thanks Sean! I just have to find that case Mom bought for me, I think for Easter last year, I always kept the phone in my pocket so I just stashed it someplace. This one isn't a flip phone so it will probably need the case. So where did I put it… hummmmmmm

 

This one has a microSD slot, so with the 10% off sale at newegg for flash memory, I got one for $4.50. That way I can take pictures with it and get them off the phone. Finally, a camera I can have anywhere. 

 

It's been cold these past weeks, not like that one week we had in the 80s. Where did all that nice heat go?

 

Finished the book, a couple of days ago, actually. The total word count stands at  *drumroll* 78,398 words. I started it just this year, so with the first book, that means I've written a total of 162,278 words in three months. The second is a little shorter then the first, but the first I would sort of edit a chapter after I wrote it, but this time I just plowed on through and I'll do some editing reading it through from the beginning. So that should grow. No rush, Sean needs to approve the first one before I can do anything, really.

 

As I don't expect any quick action in that quarter, I've started a completely different series, Paragon™ The Novel. I spoke a little about a new project, and this is it. Basically taking every character type in the book (An ESPer, a Paragon Martial Artist, a fairy magic user and a gun toting, hacking type cyborg), throwing them together, and see what happens. The twist is, these guys know they are in the Paragon world, and act accordingly. That is, pulling out character sheets to check stuff, cursing out the narrator for rolling dice bad, keeping track of their energy/delay, that sort of thing. I'm already up 5191 words on that, and if I hadn't wanted to finish Dragon Ball Z finally, I would probably have more. I'm writing it in a very different style, and more humor or parody oriented, but still a serious adventure for the characters. I think it should be fun!

 

Oh, and work of course, I guess I do that from time to time? I've said this before I think, but my first one today had a very high PERsonality rating. And the thing that happens when high PER people get together with low PER people is… the high PER wants to engage, the low PER wants to be left alone to do the work they've been asked to do. I differ from my father greatly in this respect. While she's asking me about what pets I have, I'm thinking "lady, just leave me the freak alone and let me work." Not as bad as *shudder* Kimberly of old, she wouldn't shut up, and speaking of people that won't shut up, I get to see My Buddy Bruce tomorrow, oh what fun. He's gay porn sited himself into oblivion again, or something. When are you moving far, far away? Aw, he won't be "able to do his journal entry" tomorrow. You have no life Bruce, I can't see it as being all that important, what you have to write.

 

Got Mom's router in, tested everything, worked great, got home, got a phone call. Had to do over the phone help. Sigh.

 

Good number of places to go tomorrow too, but I should be back in the afternoon. 

 

Time to do more paperwork, guess I'll get right on putting that off a few days.