
What the heck does that mean?
I’ll tell you what it means. Tonight it’s going to be dark at 5:30 that’s what. And it means I don’t know what time it REALLY is. Although to be fair, we have now entered Daylight Time, but that doesn’t help me much. I’m still confused. I ate lunch at 10:30 because my stomach KNOWS it’s 11:30 and “feed me” was all it could articulate, not being in sync with the higher powers of time management. It’s going to take me weeks to get used to this. It’s just so typically “modern” to think we can fool around with the clock without repercussions, however subtle they may look on the surface.
And I am completely sure that I did NOT save any daylight since last April thank you very much !
I DID go out and clean out one of the raised beds this afternoon.
Yanked up volunteer blackberry vines and overgrown basil and pernicious crabgrass, plus some large healthy looking weed that the top part looked for all the world like a giant carrot plant. It was hiding just under the blackberry vine and just above the pernicious crab grass.
I brought in a pile of basil leaves and made Pesto. Dinner! Yum!
And for better or worse, I signed up for the NaNoWriMo write a novel in a month challenge. I must be stark raving mad, but I did it anyway. I have had an idea for a story for quite some time, and I figure, what the heck, let’s get something down on paper. I liked the idea of just writing like a crazed person and then worry about cleaning the mess up later. It’s so totally contrary to my usual careful step by step way of doing things, that I figure it might shock my inner critic into going on an extended vacation to some intense place like Hong Kong or something where she will have lots of other things to direct and criticize. “Good riddance, Bon Voyage, forget to write !”
And if I have a nervous breakdown, I am telling them to air freight me directly to Bookworm. I fully expect her to nurse me back to health, for I continue to assert…… “It’s all HER fault!”
(Love ya Booky dear)

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Now I have to be home by 4:00 pm to get online to chat with my sister in Arizona, whose population very sensibly has said NO to the biannual clock re-setting. Ahwell, she's worth it.
Shalom
at least you have bookworm here to keep you accountable and urge you onward!
sez
Rainee (I'm Calimero in the NaNo forums)
Daylight saving malarky makes no difference to me in the bat cave, it's always dark in my dungeon.
Seriously, I have no idea. I'll probably use the default, whatever that happens to be. (I'll be using Microsoft Works, and I'm not very familiar with it).
Actually, I'm considering just shutting the screen off while I type. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to writing, so maybe if I can't see the mistakes, I won't feel like I can't go on until they're fixed. (Does that make any sense?) I've got to do something to make myself write first, edit later. That's going to be difficult for me, but I guess that's what the NaNoWriMo challenge is all about!
Rainee
Good luck with your story idea. I think I'm finally happy with mine. What genre will yours be?
Rainee
I'm starting to think that I shouldn't think. :)
Not about the novel, anyway. I'm afraid I'm going to once again trick myself into thinking it won't work out.
So, yes. There's some tension on my end too. And fear. And nervousness. And stale crackers ... which I'm eating right now although I don't know why.
Writer's brain, maybe?
Rainee
~QE