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Saturday, January 31, 2004

That damned witch...

and her cold left tit just won't leave us. I know that many of you in more northern climes think what we are going through is nothing. Its all based on what you're used to. In central North Carolina people just aren't used to a combination of snow, ice, and consecutive days of mostly sub-freezing... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

The storm shut down most of central North Carolina yesterday in addition to playing havoc with my Internet connection. Since yesterday afternoon I've had no further problems with my connection. But we're supposed to be getting a follow up storm consisting of mostly freezing rain that may shut the... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, January 24, 2004

The weather is playing havoc with my blogging.

North Carolina is under a winter storm watch. As near as I can tell, there's no more "watch" to it. Its already here and it keeps knocking out my dial-up connection. At least I think that is what's happening. If it isn't the weather I may be in some serious trouble here. It's not that I can't post.... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, January 23, 2004

Best laid plans...

as usual, don't work out as expected. I anticipated being mostly absent from the BN for about a week that turned out to be two weeks. I thought I'd keep in touch by posting a few canned blogs that ended up getting misplaced in the shuffle and bustle of moving. I expected to post here a couple of... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Canned Blogs

Thank God for my notebooks. Most of what I post over the next several days will be prepackaged. I normally blog off the cuff, but I'll be without an internet connection for a week. I'll try to make do with borrowed time on my son's connection and the use of the public library's. However, this will... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 29, 2003

Surprises in the Old Notebook

Yesterday I actually posted to my poetry blog for the first time in nearly two weeks. I thought I was done with poetry for the time being. I was looking for something else when I stumbled across the lines I decided to call "Eternity." I'm not even sure it was a poem, but I liked the sound of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 25, 2003

Surprise, surprise, Christmas was the theme of the day.

I could be talking about practically any blogger who posted on December 25. However I'm a self-centered SOB who spends most of his time writing about himself. I even thought about reviving good old Jesse with a fictionalized Christmas tidbit. Instead I recounted several true experiences from... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 22, 2003

Goals in Writing

I'm not talking about fame and forture here, although that would be nice. I'm not talking about critical acclaim either, although this would also be nice (if it were combined with the fortune part of fame and... -- otherwise I don't give a damn). When I returned to the living by waking up a little... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Decisions Made and Decisions Postponed

I have spent much of the past 48 hours deciding which of my many blogs will go and which will remain for life to continue to be breathed into them. "Notapoet's Poetry" is gone, as is the Religion blog "I Believe." Neither of these should come as a surprise. I stated from the get-go that poetry was... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 15, 2003

Moving On

The lost post that was to have been the previous entry in this notebook ended up being an Opinion post. Its strange how things work sometimes. My conscsious decision to allow some of my blogs, some of the segments of this comprehensive online notebook, to slide into the sunset has caused me to take... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, December 12, 2003

Losing It

My post that is. Once again I spent an hour or more poring my heart and soul into a post that I thought might be meaningful and enlightening to others only to lose it when I hit "save and post." I don't know if its a glitch in the system or something that I continue to do wrong. This time I got... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Progress on the fiction front?

I don't know for sure, but I gave it a shot. I've recently added to "Jesse's Journey." This time out I tried being briefer and actually had Jesse take a trip. It wasn't very long -- just from the bedroom to the kitchen. But his mental journey in those few steps covered decades in time and thousands... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, December 1, 2003

Not Quite What I Planned

Although I have made a few posts here, it has occurred to me that my BN notebook hasn't been going quite the way I planned. For one thing, I figured I would post here almost every day or two. For another, I thought it would be more of a central idea and fragment repository than a journal. Finally, I... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, November 27, 2003

Random Thoughts

Just a few things I've jotted down as they occurred to me that I'm transferring to the notebook. Many of us have a fascination with what we fear. It might be snakes, spiders, or things that go bump in the night. They terrify us, but draw us like a moth to the flame. That's probably why all of those... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, November 21, 2003

Saturday Morning Cartoons

I still like to watch Saturday morning cartoons well into my fifties. Somehow that little boy part of me remains unchanged. I hope it continues unchanged till I die. Maybe dying won't be so bad if I can retain some of that joy and anticipation of youth. The ability to look forward with eagerness to... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

First entries in a new notebook

Earlier today I discussed writer's notebooks and journals in WRITERS WRITE. I have maintained a notebook of all my bits and scraps of story ideas, characters, pieces of dialogue, reminiscences, and miscellaneous interesting information. It is actually three separate three-ring binders, a stack of... Sign in to see full entry.

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