wake up!

I’m trying to do more “real” blogging here these days and I feel like my Delicious links just drown everything else out. (Also a twitter follower mentioned being interested in people’s blog posts but not their bookmarks - I am now having my blog posts send notices to twitter - and that kinda made sense to me.)

I am putting a delicious link badge in my sidebar, though, so people interested in my daily (or nearly) bookmarking habits can still find those links there, complete with tags and notes, when I add them.

"eternity"

also

"forever"

seen in IM status, and in the sentence i am reading right now in a story just as it is sung on the randomly selected song from my jukebox.

Saturday I paid the bills, and sent a contributor (at long last) his signed copy of my last book.

Monday I made an appointment for the car's 57-month checkup and updated the contributors to my new book about the cancellation of the contract by the publisher.

Tuesday I got groceries, talked to an editor about a possible book project from about January to about May of next year. Also saw Beck with Flaming Lips at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

Today I took the car in for its checkup, talked to my agent about the cancellation negotation and five new book-deal leads of various likelihood and appeal.

Also, I finally called the gutter guys to come and do the annual clearing of our downspouts as the rainy season kicks in (once this Santa Ana thing blows over, I hope).

I'm doing myself a disservice, in this exercise, but not logging what I'm getting done daily. The whole idea is to counter the negative-sum to-do list view of life and actually log accomplishments. If they don't measure up to the time spent, so be it, but let it be a record at least of some of the things that gained top priority enough to happen, over all the other wishful things.

Finally sent a signed copy of Dreamweaver Savvy to Guy Rish, who wrote the ColdFusion chapter. He only had to ask me like ten times!

Did basically nothing else today except mess around.

Oh, wait. I did shovel the ruined jack o'lantern into the compost (photos to follow) and took a bunch of shots of the back yard, especially the grapevine.

With Thanksgiving approaching, the bottom burner element in our twenty-year-old oven gave out. It took us a while to diagnose the problem. The symptoms were the oven taking much longer to come up to full heat, except when in broil mode (top burner only), and then the way my last banana bread baked, burning at the top and staying pudding-y at the bottom.

Fortunately, these things are fairly standard. B removed the part this morning. A parts store on San Pablo and russell in Berkeley had the perfectd fit for only about $35. I just picked it up. Now we need to ask the landlords to come over and install it.

I need a place for a very simple log of things accomplished. Like a to-do list, but as things are done, not a plan for future things, which is elsewhere. Like my occasional "burning to-do's" posts to my old bodega blog, except in real time instead of catching up now and again.