Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Return of, well, ME!

It's been a while, but then again, I said it would be. After all, I have been on vacation. I did get back almost a week ago, but things have been a bit weird, I guess. For one thing, my mother messed my room up. Before I left, she kept threatening to paint it while I was gone. I told her not to, but she did it anyway. She also removed the shelf built onto the western wall of the room and boxed all my stuff. I'm in the process of putting the room back together, but progress is slow on that front.

If you haven't already seen them on Facebook, I ended up taking over 11,000 pictures while on vacation. And one thing even the people who closely followed the pictures on Facebook wouldn't know is that one thing I did was upload pictures from the camera's memory card to my computer every night before I went to bed. What that means is that on my computer, I have a separate folder for each day of my vacation. With the pictures organized like that, I can easily look back and sort of retrace my steps, using the pictures to help remember everything. Until a few days ago, one of my plans was to use this blog (or start a new one) doing just that. One post summarizing each day of my vacation, with pictures thrown in too. I took pictures in Europe 34 days in a row, so that would be a lot of content. But I'm not doing it. At least, not for now.

The reason I'm not going to take the time to blog about my adventures in Europe (at least not yet) is that I've decided to write something else instead, and I don't think I'll have the time to do both. I've officially signed up for NaNoWriMo and plan to write a novel in November. If I do make it to 50,000 words, it will certainly be the longest thing I've ever written (longest single work, anyway). I'm trying to get other people to do this too, so if you're reading this and it's still October, come on and join the insanity. Anyway, I haven't written a word of my novel yet (that would be cheating) but I do intend for it to be a really bad science fiction story, just in case you were wondering.

Speaking of books, I read two of them while on vacation and probably should have brought at least two more, but whatever. I read The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov. Not much to say about that, because it's by Asimov, so of course it's good, but it's also one of his earlier ones, so of course it's also sort of silly. I guess it counts as part of the robots series. Next was Stardust by Neil Gaiman. It was a fun little book, but not really that interesting. It deployed that thing where there's an excerpt from another book by the same author, in this case The Graveyard Book, which looks like something I'd be more inclined to read than Stardust but whatever. Also, I'm now reading The Stars, Like Dust and that one is also by Isaac Asimov.

Anyway, that's all for now.