Patrick Says

I swear these timestamps are all wrong. I just wrote two posts and the system stamped them at November 12th. It’s still November 11th here for another thrity minutes. Guess I’ll have to manually correct this one.

I got a spam email today. That’s not the important part. The important part is that it mentioned Black Friday and I forgot completely that was coming up soon.

Usually, I follow Black Friday Ads, because traditionally, I’ve found them to be the best at ferreting these ads out well ahead of time. Check them out. They’re already up and running for 2008.

Occasionally, I buy a Powerball ticket. I realize I’m not going to win, but for anywhere between one to three days, I can pretend that I might have a chance and figure out what to do with my winnings.

So while flying between my vast Italian properties and Las Vegas hotels, I’d need to develop some eccentricities. Rich people have them. Poor people have them as well, but they’re just called ‘crazy habits’.

One of mine, I think, would be that for anyone to visit me, they’d need an appointment. No just ‘dropping by’. You need an appointment. ‘But I was in the neighborhood!’ Sorry, you need an appointment. I can squeeze you in tomorrow at 2pm.

That would totally be my crazy perk…

So today I was surfing the Interwebs thinking about Mediterranean cruises, chicken and car mufflers and came across an interesting article by Deborah Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs. The article is called ‘NaNoWriMo? No thanks!’ and it’s well worth the read. The gist of it is that NaNoWriMo is a big waste of time (my summary, not hers).

In the article, she makes some very valid points, mostly motivation, ridiculous time constraints and the choice of month. That choice of November always did puzzle me…really…the month with the single longest holiday in it? In summary, she says if you want to write, just write. I could not agree more. Consider my NaNoWriMo officially done. I will continue to work on the novel, but at my pace. I may even post some excerpts here.

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Now I see the problem. I’m leaving this post up because who doesn’t enjoy a good survey (and who doesn’t enjoy potato chips either). Knock it out, folks.