Halloween is just about over, for all useful purposes. I had two visitors… the were twins and they live next door. I managed to make it out Thursday night to the Miamisburg bar hop, which would have been point-and-shoot heaven except that my camera had fallen under a chair earlier in the week and the three days I spent looking for it beforehand didn’t pan out, while the five minutes I spent the next morning did. Oh well.<\/p>\n
Summer went well — I biked a lot, swam a lot, and ran a lot — all that outdoor stuff that one wants to do when it’s warm. Cold is now imminent. It descends upon the Chip like Christians on prime-time nudity.<\/p>\n
I’m not much for the cold.<\/p>\n
So, it’s time to find things to keep busy indoors. November is, again, National Novel Writing Month<\/a>, and with any luck I’ll do better this year than prior years<\/a>. Hopefully I’ll draw some encouragement from everyone else doing it — my cousin Jennifer is in; hopefully Aerin<\/a> will try it. A few of you others are considering it — I could use the additional motivation.<\/p>\n On top of that I’m working on a pseudo work\/personal programming project, for which I’ve started another blog here<\/a> (because, you know, I have all this free time). Thought I’d try out blogspot, get back into some real coding (Project Euler<\/a> hasn’t been keeping me entertained any more), and, like I said, all of this can be done half-clothed and indoors.<\/p>\n The cold can just bring-it, cause I am prepared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"