Jim-kun's Journal

So, there's this thing that called livestream. It's a site that lets you stream video from your computer, either what's on the screen or what your webcam sees.

There's a couple things I was thinking I could try doing with this, but would just be for laughs and would be probably more trouble to set up than it would be worth. So, here's a poll of things I could potentially do with it. Check all you'd be interested in.

If there's enough interest, I might try setting it up, someday.

Poll #1492779 Livestream Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3

What would you potentially be interested in wasting time watching?

Don't be afraid to check "Just watching you play guitar" and "other" if you have some idea I didn't mention. :P

So, I managed to finish nanowrimo with about 1,000 words to spare...the important thing is...

I WON!

My story isn't done, but I plan on finishing it in "decnowrimo," which a friend of mine is doing since she is too busy in November for nanowrimo. I'm guessing I'm something like 3/4ths done, right now.

So, what's on my schedule?...

Wednesday: Chances are I'll shovel some snow...

Thursday: Scrabble at the library in the afternoon, and my radio show in the evening. (This is an early reminder, so no excuses, people...)

Friday: Astronomy Club meeting...the annual swap meet, which I'm not that interested in, just because I don't have any money to buy new astronomy gear, really.

Saturday: Going to be skipping my Classical Hour show, sadly. Going over to Mike's and the NaNoWrimo TGIO Party, and then Saturday night is the Skywatch at Cernan.

Sunday: Going over to Dan's place with Mike.

Nothing major planned after that, although the astronomy club Christmas party will be coming up at some point, as well as Christmas itself. And there will be some writing for decnowrimo.

Dear LJ,
I know I haven't posted lately, but that's because writing here feels so much like work...or effort, maybe. And I'm behind in my nanowrimo story, so if I'm going to be writing anything long, I feel like it should be in The Goblins' Strife...

Jim

P.S. Watching Dr. Horrible on a 52 LCD TV with a Marantz surround sound is awesome.

So, it is 1:30am and I am writing on LJ...I should be writing in my NaNo story, but I'm not. One could argue that I am, since I probably will be interspersed with my writing here.

So, I shall tell you about yesterday, or Saturday.

Day started out very simply: wake up, do classical hour show from bed. Yes, I deejay from my bedroom in my pajamas. After that I spent some time just chatting with people online, then changed and went outside to help dad rake the yard.

Lots of leaves. We have a big silver maple tree in out back yard, and it always drops its leaves very late in the year, even with all the cold we've been having (the other trees dropped their leaves early, imo). Anyway, Wednesday is the LAST pick up for leaves Palatine is doing, and it was only a couple days ago that the last of the silver maple's leaves dropped, so we basically had to rake the entire yard today.

So, spent a few hours raking, then went shopping. Returned some stuff at the library, went to Walmart and looked at a few things but got none of them. Went to Dick's Sporting Goods and got a polartec/neoprene face mask and also an LED bike headlight...for MY BIKE. Yeah, I'm kinda loopy-tired, now.

After that we stopped at Blockbuster Video, because they are going out of business and selling EVERYTHING...including the shelving, bubblegum machine, and the SAFE. Their selection was horrendous, though...

I did manage to find out thing worth getting: Satoshi Kon's Paprika. Crazy movie, that one. Very fun.

I finally got around to posting another video.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Petite Piece

Has anyone else been able to get any of the word count widgets to work?

I just get 503 errors when I try them...

Present word count: 8,174

If you're looking for me on nanowrimo's website, here i am: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/226891

So, the Kick Off party was quite fun, in a crowded, insane sort of way.  I don't know how many people came out of the 130+ people that RSVPed, but it was a lot, especially for such a small place.  Recognized more than a few faced, but only a couple well enough to be sure of anything about (aside from the people in charge).  Talked with lots of people about what they're writing, what I'm writing, how insane they are, etc.

Was going to post a widget word county thing, but I'm just getting a "service temporarily unavailable" message, when I try.  I'll post one once I get it working...right now I have 2,425 words.

Sleepy...didn't get enough sleep last night...so might actually get to bed at a normal hour tonight...

Ironic how that in 4 hours NaNoWrimo starts, but I'll almost for sure be asleep by then.  My eyelids are already feeling rather heavy...and I just spelled eyelids as...eyelips, and the eyelibs...

You'd realize why it's ironic if  you knew how late I usually stay up...

In other news...tomorrow is the MASSIVE kick off party downtown Chicago and I'm going...will update about that after it happens.  ^_^

Just remembered what the other thing I was going to say was...

Tune in tomorrow morning for The Classical Hour for some of the best creepy classical music, such as The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Night on Bald Mountain.  (11 to noon central time)

Sorry about the long post title...practicing for NaNoWriMo...which is 29 hours away, now...less...

Wow-za.

Nov 1st is the big official kick off party, me and Mike and Cathy and my imaginary friend Nathan Bob Jeremy Fremlings are going to. Actually, it's a kinda big deal this year. Apparently over 130 people have RSVPed, and they don't have room for anymore. That's a lot...more than 100, even.

As for my actual nano-story and plot...well, the characters are coming together nicely, but my plot only has a few points, still. One of them is fairly intricate, and I'm still trying to tweak the timeline so that it will work, actually...I need to spend more time actually thinking about what all will happen beyond the first few chapters, since that's all I have visualized, at this point.

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I checked out season 1 of a TV show called Leverage out from the library. Was going to get more stuff, but I didn't think about how the library closes at 6 on Fridays, and I pretty much got there at 6...so I just dumped my stuff to be returned in the slot and got the Leverage (since it was on hold and would be real quick to get). I saw a couple episodes from season 2 at Dan's. Good show, from what I saw. I'll make a post about it, later, since I'm not 100% clear on what it's about beyond "con men" at this point.

I also stopped at Ace and got a AC outlet splitter thing, so now the router AND modem are plugged into the battery backup ports on out UPS, so small interruptions in electricity won't mess with our internet anymore.

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I have a very strong feeling like there was something else I was gonna say...but no clue what...