Resolutions for 2008

Well, it’s that time again. I need to think about what I’d like to do in the next year. To start, let me perform a little bit of a recap from my previous post on this topic.

I said I’d like to do NaNo again, progress on the CraGNo, play with Poser 7 more often, and make a movie. Needless to say, I did NaNoWriMo again, I even won! I did not progress too far on the CraGNo, but I could potentially work on that more this spring, if I don’t decide to go crazy and edit my NaNo Novel. Unfortunately, I feel short on my Poser 7 and Movie making goals. I barely touched the camcorder, and now that I’ve got Leopard on the iMac, I don’t even know if Poser 7 runs. Smooth moves, I’d say.

So aside from 1280×800 or 1440×900, what are my resolutions for 2008? Well, for starters, I resolve to do NaNoWriMo again. That one worked out pretty well for me last time, so it’s kind of a freebie.

Lame as it sounds, I’d also like to do my best as a 68kMLA forum moderator, a position to which I was very recently appointed. I’ve kind of been moderating in spirit for a long time, so it’s not too different for me. I just have actual authority now when I suggest that people calm down or when I say that something might be a good idea.

Another thing I’d like to do is make sure that I keep on updating UeberWiki, which is recently back from the grave, hosted on my decTOP. The main thing here is to just keep finding random things I like and loading ‘em in. UeberWiki is cool because I can just make a page for about anything and drop it on there. I’d also specifically really like to revamp the Gotschland section of the UeberWiki, especially because of the new novel I wrote in November, which kind of changes a lot of things about how Gotschland works.

Something else I’ve got is a specific idea I’ve had for awhile, something I need to start planning for very soon, which is the photo-comic. I will probably display it using a PHP webcomic script for the decTOP, or maybe just a series of static pages on my dana site. I’ve got a few ideas for people I’d like to be in the comic, and I’ve got a few ideas for situations, mainly involving some things Glenn and I have spoken about in the past. I’ve got a few other ideas too, but a lot of them depend on me being able to get all of the “cast members” in the right place, at the right time, with my camera. A project for weekends, to be sure. I will have another blog entry about this at a later date.

I would also like to start posting blog entries on a regular basis. If at all possible, I’d like to have a new post ready every Monday. This one’s even scheduled to come in before noon on Monday, December 31st.

December 31, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Publishing Schedules

One of the things I’ve noticed about some of my favorite web logs, even personal ones, is that they come out on a fairly regular basis. One of my intents for Strapped to a Desk has been to publish it on a fairly regular basis, my original plan for that was just to always be writing, and then I’d always have something to post to the blog. What ended up happening was a bit different. I kept writing, into a document called NaNoNovel 2007, and so I didn’t have anything to publish during November. Between that, and not really having a dedicated blog-writing time, not only has my publishing schedule been sporadic at best, I’ve somewhat slowed down in my writing.

image So one of my goals for 2008 is to start publishing my blog more often. I’m going to achieve this by just writing more, plus I intend to use a calendar, which will help me keep track of when I’ve started to write things, and when I intend to finish them. I’ve already started the calendar, I’m using Windows Calendar on my ThinkPad R61i to keep track of when I start writing things, and when I intend to publish them. My intent is to have something fairly major ready for publishing every Monday, and I’ve already started filling in Mondays in 2008.

One thing I’ve definitely noticed is that I think to my blog a lot, or at the very least, I think in things I write that could potentially end up on my blog. Another thing I suppose I would like to do is write some more things that don’t get published to the public weblog, but that do get written, primarily as a personal record. It’s a need I have because there are a lot of things I see and hear and experience that most people don’t need to know about, but that I’d like to have in the future. I may just start writing Word documents into a separate folder for that.

December 30, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Mom’s House

I just had one of the worst visits anywhere I’ve ever had. Details may or may not follow.

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Visiting Kingman

I’ve been in Kingman for a few days, at Dad & Brenda’s house, and my brother has been here as well. It is very relaxing, even after only a day or two, to be in Kingman. It is exactly what I wanted to do this year, after a stressful semester, and a stressful week after finals, to sit down on the couch in dad’s house chatting online and looking at train pictures. I’ve looked at every single Amtrak and Amtrak California photo on railpics.net

Another side-effect of visiting Kingman was going to work with dad, which I enjoyed well enough before he got DSL there, but I really do like sitting there, somewhere else, and browsing the Internet. It’s better for my back I think.

I might also get a haircut while I am here, not sure yet.

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The stress of breaks.

I’m mildly unhappy because I had an extraordinarily stressful post-finals week. Unlike my prediction of it being completely stress-free because there was going to be no deadline for leaving, it was more stressful because Megan and Glenn stayed in Gabaldon too, meaning that most of my time outside of work was dedicated to either hanging out at Megan’s work, or making sure that Megan and Glenn didn’t kill each other.

I realize that there was an expectation from Megan that she and I have some time alone, probably more than we actually did (which was still quite a lot by my standards), but there’s also the fact that Jim still lives in the room, and has paid for it, and likewise with Glenn. Not only did Megan not get enough time alone with me, but she and I didn’t get enough time alone without anyone, we estimate less than two hours alone time for the whole week, which is a lot less than either of us gets during the semester.

Those various factors led to what turned into an epic breakdown on Friday night, wherein I revealed that I actually wanted to sleep alone for a night, Megan revealed she wouldn’t be capable of sleeping in Glenn’s room for the night, and I got pissed (needlessly as per Megan) off at Megan and Glenn. Let’s just say that neither of them know when to shut up, even if you say “shut up” to them seventeen times repeatedly. I also learned that I’m apparently a rather frightening person when I’m pissed off. Megan and Glenn wouldn’t shut up though, Both of them were so stressed, or feeling so superior, that it wasn’t an option to just close their mouths and open their ears long enough to realize that the solution to their problem was extraordinarily simple. I  moved one chair sixteen inches to the right, and moved the display we were viewing the movie on eight inches to the right, and all three of us were able to watch the last Real Bout High School DVD. Not too difficult, but some people seem to really enjoy being pissed off for no reason.

At least Megan got The Sims 2 installed on her Sony computer, which we picked up in great condition at Best Buy, and was able to get her people loaded back in fine.

December 27, 2007 | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »
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