Busy Busy Busy

That's me this week.  And last week.  And next week too!

I've fallen behind on my NaNoWriMo word count this week.  Significantly.  Obligations and responsibilities and happenstances, oh my!  At least I can refuse to take credit for the happenstances.

The old computer finally gave up the ghost.  I saw it coming and didn't even need to rely on my astute precognitive prowess to foretell it.  Poor thing had been making an awful racket for quite some time--somewhat akin to the sound a car with a manual transmission makes when the driver doesn't understand the purpose of a clutch.

So, I stripped the old girl of her goods.  I pulled out the three hard drives and plugged them into the new PC I had purchased a while back anticipating her untimely demise.  So I now have 2.7 terabytes of disk space spread out among four internal hard drives.  My USB external drive brings the count to five.  I hooked up the old VGA for a second monitor and am now pondering the next purchase.

Laptop or desktop, that's the decision I now must make.  I love the expandability of desktops, but appreciate the benefits that portable units provide.  And I do have the Orson Scott Card Writing Workshop coming up next month.  (T-Minus 37 days and counting.)

I'm hesitant to spend the bigger bucks on a laptop, however.  There just aren't that many times I need the portability.  My foresight sees only two days in June that warrant one.  And I do have my Android tablet if I were to suddenly be whisked away on a business trip.

But busy pursues me.  My son is getting married Saturday.  Mother's Day is Sunday.  A six-day workweek awaits me beginning Monday.  I have writing to critique.  I have short stories waiting to be finished.  And my NaNoWriMo project refuses to write itself.

And I can't shake that nagging suspicion that busy will be a little less persistent once my NaNo month has concluded.  Is that not the way of things?

110 Days to Go!

I'm committed.
The dates are fixed.
The form has been completed.
The check has been enclosed.
The envelope has been mailed.
Request for time off from work has been approved.

It's time to start counting down the days.

110...

To what, you ask?  Why to Uncle Orson's Writing Class, of course!

Two twelve-hour days soaking up all the little bits of knowledge and experience that Orson Scott Card shares at his upcoming Writing Class and Literary Boot Camp come June.  There are four additional days of "Boot Camp" available, but alas, I can't afford to take that much time off work.  (And the actual Boot Camp is limited to 14 participants.)

Can you tell I'm excited about this?  Never before have I done anything remotely like this.  And it's in Greensboro, NC, no farther away than my daily commute to work!

Maybe I'll see you there?