Hey everybody. This is just a post to let everybody know that there are approximately 22 hours left in NaNoWriMo. How Exciting!
I am about 6900 words away from being finished. Wish me luck! 
As many of you know, I have been working on my novel this month. In order to achieve that without many distractions, I have been using Mac OS 9 as my preferred booting operating system on my PowerBook G3. Unfortunately, it seems to have decided on needing a mental vacation, and now, just short of 40,000 words into my novel, I am without an OS9-booting computer on which to write my novel, and I’m sans-the-laptop. It’s unfortunate but true.
Of course, I expected some sort of massive failure out of it. i wish it had waited another week, but I am not surprised by what happened.
I hope that I am one of the first to inform everybody that just now, I saw snow flurries coming down while I was walking to/from Surplus Sales at NAU, from Reilly. I think that this is a favorable thing! Snow should follow VERY shortly. I expect to have snow-related problems getting back to my dorm room tonight. Yaay!
Today I started looking around for some software that I need for my NT4 box. It turns out that I actually found some of the software that I want. Entertainingly enough, It is now running Office97, Internet Explorer 6, and most excellently, the SETI@Home client. I eventually plan on putting VisualBasic 6 Professional on there, though for the rest of this year, I think that this machine will probably be used primarily for SETI@Home, however I would not be surprised if at some point in the future, I get more into retro WindowsNT action, and maybe even try to do some things in VisualBasic 6.
Anyway, here’s to finding the aliens!
Here are some things that I have found to be helpful when I’m doing teh-polyphasic.
- Don’t always try to be actually doing work, especially while I’m still transitioning.
- Have a small amount of caffeine, a shower, or some food right after I wake up. (but not a whole 1L Mtn. Dew)
- Have a list of things to do, even litle things like “write pointless blog posts”
- Doing physical activity, including showering, random 6.5am walks with the camera (I got some AWESOME pictures
), etc. - Drink lots of water, apparently.
- Enjoy little things, like finding the aliens.
- Find the aliens.
- Write a novel.
- Actually get up on time.
- Don’t skip naps.
- Try not to reposition individual naps more than about an hour in either direction… it screws everything up.