poppings and lunchings

We went over to the chiro to give them a copy of my insurance card, and while I was there I got popped, because my right shoulder has been really hurting lately, and I explained more precisely to Dr. Woody where the pain was, and he said oh! and popped me a whole different way (he had me stand up against a padded wall (I need no comments from the peanut gallery, thank you) and put my feet out and scootch down a bit so my knees were bent, and…

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plays and wordcounts

Ted and I went to the open dress rehearsal of Dad’s production of I Remember Mama last night. It was really quite wonderful! I’ll be going to see it again, probably near the end of the run. Very enjoyable indeed! Mama was wonderful, Katrin was overdramatic and funny, Uncle Chris absolutely stole the show — readers in Anchorage ought to go see it. It’s playing for the next 3 weekends at 7:30pm (I believe) at the APU theatre. :) Deirdre’s broken 10K words on Nanowrimo! I’m at just below 9K,…

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*HAH*!

*HAH*!! I have had a moment of Great Triumph over the evil that is Word! I have figured out how to make its default setting (normal) automagically double-spaced! I’ve been trying to figure this out for YEAAAAAAARS. Today, in a fit of something or other, I actually looked at the help files. :) I know you’re all dying to know how to do this, so I’m going to tell you. Go into Format. Choose Style. Highlight Normal. Click Modify. Click Format. Choose Paragraph. Choose Double under line spacing. Click OK.…

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confluence!

Confluence.org is a very cool, very weird project that makes me want to go hike the backwaters of Alaska and record confluences. Not that I’m anything like a hiker and not that I even know how a person goes about finding confluences (presumably with a GPS, actually), but it just sounds cool! Humans are such *odd* creatures.

writing

I wrote 700 words last night and got depressed over the fact that LG isn’t as good as The Secret Country, and so I quit writing and read some of TSC instead, and bizarrely that made me feel somewhat better. LG is a different story. I still want it to be as *good* as TSC, but … well, it made me feel a little better, anyway. I also wrote up about a page’s worth of notes and thoughts on LG, so it wasn’t a total waste of an evening. I’m…

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