notes

Despite what little color-boxes say over there, my word count is in quite good shape. The yellow days are usually 1667+ words, just not totaling the recommended total wordcount. (Which is odd, because NaNo's stats are also telling me I only need to do like 14-15k each day now to hit 50k. But I am not going to think about math now.

I did enough math yesterday, trying to sort out ages and dates and generations and omfg. Counting on fingers ftw.

Let's see. Recent names, I pulled from the usual social security census site. Photos, again, I made up. (I will, at some point, absolutely have to draw that one of Meres. <3) I did do some quick google searches similar to the ones Kimber did for the genealogy info, just to get an idea of what you'd normally turn up. Gamer-speak was shamelessly ganked from whatever random phrases I overheard the gaming-husband spouting while I was writing. Work-related gripes were based, not very loosely, on my own back at PF in Fredonia.

Oh, and I have noooo idea if my Latin grammar was anywhere near correct. I mean, I think it's generally about right. I went with Google's translation, because it made the most sense to me - other sites used different words for "love", and the verb conjugations were all over the damn map. That's an issue for post-November research. ;p

Long, long day. Yesterday was a long day because I thought it wouldn't take long to drill a few holes in my new cabinets for the wires of the blu-ray, xbox 360, and wii to go through. HA. omg it took HOURS. (Drill bits weren't big enough to make a hole to squeeze a plug through, let along a giant wonky-shaped device-specific plug. Drilled smaller holes, drilled bigger holes, and sanded like hell. FOR HOURS.) Today was a long day because I thought it was going to be a nice lazy "day off", beta-testing the new Star Wars MMO and then maybe some DDR on the Wii. HA. SW:TOR decided to throw an as-yet-unresolved-bug at me, so I eventually played on Tom's computer instead of mine. Neither of us knew how we'd rigged up the Wii, nor how I should get a new game onto the harddrive hooked up to it. I have since learned that there's a file structure format called WMFS or something that's specific to the Wii. Aaaand that a usb adapter for my dance mat does little good when THE WII WON'T TAKE USB CONTROLLERS despite its two usb ports.

...long, long day. I was a little afraid the writing was going to continue this trend, but, Kimber's head wound up being a nice sympathetic place to hang out in this evening. <3