I only managed to get in one lesson yesterday instead of the two I was aiming for, but one is better than none. Yesterday’s lesson was called Numeri e l’ora which is a bit of a misnomer because telling time was introduced, but much of the lesson was a reviews of the previous lesson on…
Up at 4:30 AM and into the gym by 6 AM (the train was running a few minutes late this morning). Chest and back day today and I decided to break from the normal routine and try a few things I hadn’t done in a while.
Okay, so this evening I made outstanding progress on the outline for the expanded version of “Graveyard Shift”. There are three parts to the novel. Each part has 11 chapters and is roughly 30,000 words, which means on average, each chapter is 2,700 words long. (That’s not hard and fast, just something to aim toward.)…
Working my way through Greek history, I am rapidly coming to discover that I’ve gotten just about all of the pronunciations of Greek names and places wrong, and am now experiencing retroactive humiliation. I blame this in part on me, of course, but I also blame it on my teachers. It seems to me that…
I’m heading outside with my copy of Imperial Earth to sit in the sun and read during my lunch hour (I already ate my PB&J sandwich and orange).
I called the vet today and made boarding arrangements for Zeke while I am in L.A. next week. At the same time, I made boarding arrangements for him while I am in Europe this summer. He will be boarded from July 2 through July 23 (22 days) while I’m out of the country. I also…
I got through two Italian lessons last night: numeri cardinali da 1 a 10 (the counting numbers, 1-10), which was the easiest of the lessons I’ve done so far. I also got through singolare e plurale: nomi e verbi nel presente, presente forma progressiva (singular and plural nouns and verbs, present tense). This turned out…
Up at 4:30 AM and into the gym by 5:55. I tried my experiment again last night, covering up my clock so I can’t see the time, and once again, I slept pretty well. I woke up twice that I know, but got back to sleep pretty quickly. It did feel good to get back…
This post represents my planned itinerary for the cruise portion of my vacation this coming July. It will most likely be updated frequently, up-to and including commencement of the trip, but I wanted to have one place where I could post my plans and allow people to make comments or suggestions and this place is…
Earlier, I complained that I wasn’t writing much lately and that is true when it comes to my fiction. But it may be a little misleading, because I have been jotting down lots of notes on the plot and characters for the expanded version of “Graveyard Shift”. These notes, handwritten on paper in tiny prints,…