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Alas, poor air-conditioner, I shall miss thee. One week ago today, the house decided that it could no longer get cooler than 85 degrees. Two days later, the temperature during the day in the house was at a balmy 95 degrees. After several incredibly expensive ac unit quotes, we finally settled on a company that [...]

Well, ballooning season here in Arizona is pretty much done for the summer. With the temperature beginning to climb, it’s time to take my hobbies to a more indoor variety. Since receiving the Macbook Pro Laptop of Awesomeness, I’ve been learning about iPhone application development. Objective-C takes me back to my “olden days” of learning [...]

My wonderful husband gave me a surprise on our 4th anniversary last week in the form of a gorgeous, shiny, brand new Macbook Pro! It’s got the new Intel Core i5 2.4ghz processor, 4 gigs of RAM, and a 500mb 7200rpm hard drive. It’s smokin’ fast, and I have it dual booting OS X and [...]

We’re leaping into ballooning feet first, and we got a great deal on a hot air balloon! We named the balloon “Sonoran Star” and had it inspected by an FAA Repair Station (Balloon RX) last week. He said it was in fantastic condition and a great deal, so we bought it. This weekend it looks [...]

Looking forward to spending some time in the Magic Kingdom. Yep! Headed off to Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure. I think this will be my 34th trip to Disneyland, but my first to California Adventure Theme Park. I have TomTom for iPhone all set and ready to go with our hotel, Disneyland, and Roscoe’s Chicken [...]

1.  Writing Discipline Gaming is so much more fun, but I force myself to hit my word count and then some extra every single day.  The days that I come up short on word count I berate myself and feel guilty. Better to just finish word count so I don’t have to deal with my [...]

I have a tendency to fall off Planet Earth for a few weeks in November. Because of having to hit a daily word count at night after working all day, there’s little time for gaming, socializing, and TV. I was so frustrated with my protagonist yesterday that in the first 100 words I had her [...]

I competed last year and learned a lot about my writing. I also formed a wonderful habit of writing 1800 words a day (which I promptly kicked by mid-December — arrgh).  For those of you unfamiliar with the strange word, NaNoWriMo, it stands for National Novel Writing Month. Every year in November, both published and [...]

The hosting switchover is complete, and I’m now on WordPress instead of Blogger. Next fun part is to import all of my Blogger entries from 2003 to present into WordPress.  We’ll see how that goes.

The clue was “A butterfly’s wings” and answer was “alae”. Had to look this one up. Dictionary says: 1. a wing. 2. a winglike part, process, or expansion, as of a bone, shell, seed, or stem. 3. either of the two side petals of a flower in the legume family, as the pea. 4. (in [...]