My goal this week is to get everything in order. I've been spending too much time on my karting site. It's getting in the way of my writing. I've set certain tasks to certain days. We'll see how well that works.
I'm sick. I hate being sick.
Still sick. I went into work this morning and got my laptop with the idea of working from home. I couldn't log in properly and after a while I realized that I had lost the train of logic to the point where I couldn't remember my password. I set a new password on Monday, so it's one I haven't used much yet.
I took a long nap and my head cleared nicely. For some reason my face of God program idea surfaced. Perhaps my illness has revived my search for spirituality, fear of mortality dynamic. The concept of the program is so simple that it's difficult to translate into a purely logical algorithm.
Whenever I submit a story I calculate when I think the response is due. For the most part I've been a few weeks off, mostly on the optimistic side. Occasionally I get within a week. Today I got the response on the very day that I guessed. It was a rejection, of the best story I've written so far. Weirdly enough I was sad only for a few seconds. I submitted the story to one of the elites of the lit journal world, so my expectation wasn't very high. I've already picked another to market to try.
I got reorged at work today. Better than being downsized though. Actually, what I do at work wont be changing that much. That bad part is I'll be working for a new boss. I don't know him well, but he seems like a nice guy. I will miss my current boss though. She's helped me alot over the last few years.
Some books are great. Some books change you forever.
I am working on a bunch of projects. Some of them are working towards the future. Some of them are a return to the past. What's missing is the now. This weekend I'm doing some now.
I did it! I've been working on this computer program idea for years. Since 1988 actually. I finally found the right combination of time, programming language and inspiration to put all the pieces together. I can't tell you what it is right now. It goes along with a story I've also been working on for years. When the story I'll explain all.
The weather is creeping away from winter. Hints of warm days surprise. The RV gets it's propane systems fixed this week. The road is calling.
I started working on my novel again. I had some ideas and I sat down with the idea of writing out a few notes for later work. I wound up writing a couple thousand words. When I was done I counted up all my work on this book and so far I have 23,000 words. I expect the raw material to top 60,000 words before the rewriting/trimming begins. I'm much further along than I expected.
So I've decided not to go pro with the Indoor Karting site. I wrote out a rough business plan, and while there is potential for profit, my most generous estimate has me working for about 30 cents and hour.