You know, it seems like Monday the 13th should be far more unlucky than Friday the 13th because…Friday! Versus Monday! Anyway, it is once again Monday and time for me to talk about blah, blah, blah. I say that because it seems like I say the same thing every Monday. I’m writing this. I’m reading that. This team won or lost. I watching not much except the same ol’ same ol’. Blah. But y’all keep hanging around and I do try to post far more interesting things on other days of the week. So…my updates.
Let’s get to sports right off the bat. OSU beat Iowa State. This was not a gimme by a long shot. Iowa State surprised OU and took them down not long ago. OU has had to fight it’s way back to a position that might get them in the playoffs. OSU won’t get that far but each week they climb puts them in better position for a good bowl game. Both teams moved in the AP and Coaches Polls. We’ll have to wait until Tuesday to see the playoff standings. 😛
I finished off Joanne Wylde’s Reapers MC/Silver Bastards (and Devil’s Jacks) books. There are dangling threads I want sewn up and she didn’t tie them up in the one novella she’s written since REAPER’S FIRE, which released a year ago. SHADE’S LADY was pretty much a standalone as far as on-going series threads were involved. I haven’t found anywhere that she’s working on more Reaper books, or anything else at the moment. Color me with a sad face. 😦 I moved on to Erin Kellison’s Dragons of Bloodfire series. I caught them on Kindle sale PLUS on sale at Audible for $1.99 so I couldn’t resist. The books are short but she’s done some interesting world-building. I’ve read the first two in Kindle, though it’s been long enough I only sort of remember the story. Not sure where I’ll go from there. Maybe back to Michelle Sagawa’s Chronicles of Elantra series. I have some Audible credits I can spend. We’ll see what I’m in the mood for.
Writing is progressing well. I’m just over 30K words on the rewrite. Today is the first love scene. Fun times. Things will happen fast and furious after that. Zoe’s career takes off, she’s opening a concert for Deacon and the Sons of Nashville, and her narrow-between-the-eyes almost in-laws show back up to cause trouble. Not to mention what Tucker’s family gets up to. According to the NaNoWriMo stat page, if I keep up this pace, I’ll be finished with the first draft on November 20th. That would be awesome! It’d be more awesome if I could finish sooner.
On that note, I’m off to work. What about y’all? What did you do this weekend? Did your sport teams do well? What are you reading, writing, doing this week?
Dear US Government–Will somebody PLEASE end the insanity that is Daylight Savings Time? Sincerely, Me. *yawn* … *guzzles coffee*
Ah well. Next year. The really good news is, the fake OSU (Ohio State) was beaten by unranked Iowa!
I’ll be the first to admit it. I don’t have a logical bone in my body and my brain doesn’t work that way. Except…it does. Sort of. Back in college, I was required to take a few math courses. Math is full of logic. Me? Yeah…no. My calculus professor, Dr. Brousseau, would have been bald, had he not kept his head all but shaved, because of me. All that hair-pulling angst I caused. See, I drove him a little (okay,probably a lot) crazy. See…I kept getting the right answer (more or less) to the math problems without working them logically as dictated by all the textbooks and hundreds of years of mathematicians. He would make me explain how I worked the problem. Suffice it to say that my logic was not his logic but I still managed by adding and subtracting steps that made no sense to get the right answer. When this little gem arrived from the Universe, I knew exactly what it meant. 😉
Silver James 