Day 1 final and start of day 2

Well everyone hit their target for day on with 5394 words for the family. Today it is are different. I had work and the kids have taken 9 hours to write 1200 words total. They did it in turns. Ten minutes on then 20 minutes off. So when they got on a roll it was time to give someone else a turn. Therefore the 9 hours. Oh and Logan found out the hard way why I told them to post a copy of their daily words to a private family web site. He managed to hit backspace after hitting <ctrl> <a> then saved. Then he just logged off and told me about it later. I could have dug out the auto save file but the program deletes them when the user logs off. Oh well. He now knows better and is typing away to redo his 700 words. All for now. Later!

NaNoWriMo Day 1 madness!

Here we go the first day is a 25-hour day so we should all do more today. Not a chance. But we are up to or over our goals except for my wife. But she has the little one hounding her all-day every day. She got about half done during nap time. Most likely will have the rest done this evening. She is writing in fits and spurts. Which is all good. The boys are all just over the daily goal. I am at 2617. So only 800 more to be on track for tomorrow. Over 3700 for the family so far today. The total family goal is 158,000 words this month. All for now. Later!

Celebrate the Dead!

The Eve of all Saints, All Hollows eve, Halloween, Frealia, Samhain. Or whatever you call this night. Let’s all take a moment to remember those who have gone before and have passed beyond. This is a night for honor and honesty, recall and reflection. We should not sweep the spirit behind the calibration into the corner under a pile of candy wrappers and costume masks. Please take a few moments for the dead tonight. This is their festival. All for now. Later!

Nano and family and Economy. Oh My.

Well a long day at work. Over 12 hours. So I did not have time to go over the snowflake step 8 with my boys today. I’ll do that tomorrow since I have to work a short day so I don’t get any overtime. Saving money is what all companies are doing now. There are signs that it is getting better. That is what the analysts are saying. I haven’t seen any sign yet. No solid ones anyway. Prices going up since there is less volume. Even the more basic food the prices are up. That is because people are eating more simply and cheaply. Instead of frozen dinners and take out pizza it’s meat, veggies and starch. Like when I was growing up. Takes longer to prepare. But the cash cost is less. You pay with time instead of your wallet. All for now. Later!

Family NaNoWriMo fun!

NaNoWriMo preparation is well under way here. The 3 boys are on step 8 of the snowflake method. It has been a tough road. They just want to write it out. But going through the steps will be good for them. Since they can treat each line of step 8 as a separate small stories. Just where everything connects. They are more enthusiastic since I told them about the prize. When they hit the word count goals I have set for them and edited their stories (With my help.)  I will get them all printed out with createspace. They like that part of and cannot wait to give all the relatives a copy. All for now. Later!

Ready…Set….Analyze

I am gearing up to shed the extra pounds. 1 cup of coffee in the morning then no more for the day. If I must have a caffeine drink it will be tea. With the increased water intake that will encourage my metabolism to hold less fluid. I found that my basal metabolic rate needs about 2460 calories to keep the engine running. I used the calculators at www.fitwatch.com . I looked at the daily calorie needs and I need about 2950 with my current lifestyle. My diet is bad. 600 calories a day in sweet, light coffee. 1000 in rice. Then another 2000 from whatever my wife cooks. So 3600 calories in and 2950 used is a net gain in weight. Not what I want for sure. In the last week I have been drifting towards the upper end of my 10 lb range. So action is a must. I am tracking my intake closely using a copy of fitday that a friend gave me. This is making me aware of everything that goes in. Which in turn makes me limit it. All for now. Later!

A change of pace

Well 286 lb. this morning. The BF measure on the scale saying that I am currently 38.5% pure lard. I keep bouncing in the 280 to 285 range. I have not been drinking the water I need to. Turning fat into usable sugars needs water. So more water. 2+ liters daily. 4 would be better. I also need to clean off the back porch since that is there the elliptical lives. Water and some cardio daily have to be my next step. What I am doing now is not getting anything done so change is the order of the day. All….Big break from writing there, several hours at least. But could you turn down fresh baked raisin bread toast and a coffee for breakfast? I didn’t turn it down. Now I have to see about that cardio to get rid of the delicious carbs. All for now. Later.

Fitness

Wow 1:40 am. I have to get up in 4 hours. Stretching and all that you know. Have to stay in shape. Well in my case I need to first get into shape, at least a shape other than ‘round’.  Slowly getting there. Currently holding about 280ish which is better then the 295 ish from a few months ago. Slow and steady will get it off and keep it off. Better an extra 6 months now than to gain it all back in a couple years because the change was too quick and caused a delayed reaction rebound and balloon. 1:45 time to get sleep. Sleep good. Written on AS3K lying in bed.   Later

No No bad monkey

I just realized that I had not posted here in way too long. So now I have to try to get everything all caught up. Man that will be tough. Too much has been happening. So I guess it’ll have to be piecemeal. I have my 3 sons using the Snowflake method for plotting a novel. They are all doing NaNoWriMo as part of a school project in creativity and writing. I have given them word count goals based on their age.  Older is more words of course. With all the time I put in coaching them and moving them along I’m heading into my 5th NaNoWriMo with not even a hint of a plot. I still have about 8 days to come up with one which is longer than I spent on some of them in the past so I should be fine. As long as the plot monkeys and ninja rabbits show up as scheduled that is. All for now. Later

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