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I’ve decided to do Nanowrimo - thanks to my friend Helena and her prompting. Teli’s idea about creating a site around her Nanowrimo project also gave me some ideas as well, and I’m sort of doing the same thing, but not quite, if that makes any sense.
Sometimes things just seem to fall into place, and [...]

Every year, as November approaches, it’s the same thing. Should I? Shouldn’t I? This time of the year is normally when I am heaviest into my deadlines, and of course, this year I have even more going on with everything that I’ve got online, too.
And still it beckons.
My friend Helena is doing it. And, she [...]

Today was a very good day.
I’ve been having a problem using ecto to blog to one of my Wordpress sites (it’s been working great with all my other blogs, though), and I finally figured it out today. I can now use ecto with all of my blogs and it has increased my productivity immensely. [...]

We’re having a dinner party tonight and the guests are my husband’s retired sensei and his wife, and a visiting sensei from Japan, and his daughter.
Wish me luck. On the menu: steak (grilled, outside, not by me, thank goodness), salad, roasted carrots with rosemary and Japanese small potatoes in sauce. Cookies and chocolate for [...]

It’s a good thing blogs are so flexible. Or rather, I think they’re more flexible! With a regular site, once you’ve figured out things like your theme or niche, and the target market, and you’ve got a lot of your content up, I always think it’s harder to change things around.
With blogs, it’s much easier [...]