Saturday, July 04, 2009

Right about the time I was making my previous post, one of my favorite people was in a nasty, nasty accident. Murf's ("I keep forgetting I have a blog") wife, Char, was slammed into in the middle of an intersection by a drunk driver doing 80 mph. She's pretty banged up, as one might expect, and she's in ICU with a laundry list of injuries, but eventually she should heal up physically.

She's got a hell of a long road ahead of her, but for right now, she's here, and that's all that matters.

Char and I fell into an easy friendship when she married Murf; we might go weeks without talking, but when we do it's comfortable and not strained with my odd conversational shyness. It helps that she can talk enough for three people

A week ago I was helping them set up a new blog; they're enjoying the wonders of having a teenager in the house and it seemed funny to start blogging about it. Now it looks like Murf will be using it to update friends and family about how she's doing.

He could use a little emotional support, I think. It's the suckiest of ways to launch a blog, but if you're inclined to lurk, it's here.
Thumper at 10:05 PM |

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Guys...if your wife or gf mentions that she needs to shave her legs, do not ask if she wants him to fire up the weed whacker.

Just sayin'...
Thumper at 12:41 PM |

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Monday, June 29, 2009

Dear MS Word Grammar Police,

Thank you for being so thorough.

Truly, I never would have guess that the sentence, "I'm going to believe him" should actually be "I is going to believe him."

Obviously, my education was sorely lacking.

Sincerely,
Thumper
Thumper at 4:07 PM |

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Sunday, June 28, 2009

After a horrific drive to Borders today (saw the aftermath of one 3 car accident and three minutes later saw a Toyota Yaris--same car I drive--plow into the side rail at about 40mph...it didn't hold up very well which freaks me out just a little) I managed to finish the first draft of my current work in progress.

My first 3 books weighed in at roughly 113,000 words each and the 4th one a mere 58,000.

This one? Right now it's between 160,000 and 170,000 words. That's like, a lot.

Clearly I'll be doing a whole bunch of editing over the next few drafts. I should probably set it aside for a couple of weeks, but I don't have any other work lined up, so I may plunge back into it tonight after the Spouse Thingy leaves for work. Or I may just sit here and drool on myself. Not sure yet.

And because she asked, Yes, Charlie, this one picks up just a couple of weeks after the end of Finding Father Rabbit. You get your wish. It may suck, but you're gonna get your wish.

See what a good friend I am? I write on command.

And don't tell me trained seals work on command, too, or I'll have to hurt someone...
Thumper at 4:44 PM |

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Friday, June 26, 2009

I am so very, very glad that I developed the habit of saving my work to a flash drive instead of just the hard drive, or today I would have lost an entire manuscript--just half a chapter to go, and this sucker is about 160,000 words at this point--when the laptop crashed.

Save, save, save, and BACK UP your data sooner rather than later...
Thumper at 6:56 PM |

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Monday, June 22, 2009

Validation.
Told ya she wasn't asleep...
Only plus is that it seems to have worked out for the tattoo artist.
Thumper at 12:38 PM |

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Friday, June 19, 2009

It's 95 degrees out and your child has a realistic looking life sized baby doll, which came along for the ride when you went shopping. Do you:

a) Take the doll with you when you exit the car?
b) Put the doll in the trunk?
c) Put the doll in your child's car seat, thereby causing a mass of concerned adults to swarm around your car, debating on whether to just call 911, break the window and call 911, or break the window and then beat your sorry ass when you get back, and then call 911?

If you shopped at the Nut Tree Shopping Center in Vacaville, CA today, you chose the wrong answer.

Oh, and you can thank the old lady with the walker for writing "It's a doll" on your window with lipstick. She probably saved you some serious bucks, because surely the next people passing by would have noted the same thing the first group did, and they might have chosen to beat your ass...
Thumper at 6:45 PM |

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