Heads Up

There has not been much of note going on lately. I've begun participating in NaNoWriMo. It is a national competition for novel writing. My friend Angela challenged me, and I have completed about 45,600/50,000 words. The story is coming together quite well, and most certainly will not be finished in another four thousand words. But, I am actually quite proud of what I have accomplished. I have spent a lot of time writing in 5,000 word portions at work. It has built quickly, but it has not yet come to any ending point what so ever. I know how i want it to end, for once, and perhaps,  I will get there at some point before this month is over. It is only the 21st, so, i have about nine more days to get something done. And, my mother's birthday is on the 30th. I need to remember to get her something and not forget about it.

I went out on Friday with a friend of mine. We chatted over a few beers at a local pub. It was a good evening, even if we were quite deafened by the music before we were able to get out there. We have come to an impasse where we are concerning finding relationships. They do not exactly throw themselves at you at a bar, so, you're shit out of luck trying to find them there. So we're thinking of ways to meet other people.

Brian came up from VA today. I met him online years ago. My Junior year of college. We hit it off, as friends, and have stayed thusly. His father recently died, and I think it has brought us closer together because he was able to get through it. I wish he lived closer so that we could get out and play together more often. He has been my disk golf partner for a while. Both of us are scathingly cynical for people of our age. But, we are jaded and I guess we deserve to hid behind our cynicism. We appreciate it for the shield it is, but we both have discussed whether or not we are actually hiding behind it too much. Perhaps we have to be a bit less cynical with the things which happen. I look forward to seeing where our lives take us.

Angela and I have stayed in touch, though we've been busy. We're enjoying it and having a bunch of fun writing. We're doing what we want to do, but we're just not sure where it is leading us for the future.

I guess that is the end of the news for the time being. I have not yet tackled another novel on my life, as it has been quite too hard trying to write a book and read another one at the same time. I do not want to end up poaching ideas by accident.

That is about the number,
~M~