November

November is over and my hands hurt, my brain is numb and I am totally exhausted.

Part of the exhaustion comes from family medical issues, in-laws not me or my wife, which resulted in lost sleep and stress. Things are going well now but the recovery continues.

Then the washer decided to die after 24 years which meant making room for the repairman – the basement has accumulated a lot of stuff since I got sick. Then making more room for the new washer and dryer – the dryer was also 24 years old and showing signs that it was going as well and the washer was beyond worth repairing. Modern appliances do not easily fit into an old house. There was plenty of room to install them, it was just getting them into the house that was a problem. If they make those things an inch wider they won’t fit through the doors.

And of course there was the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s not that I don’t like Thanksgiving, it’s just that it takes a lot of energy and hence recovery time.

Plus the tree in front of the house came down at 2 AM Thanksgiving morning and they came to do the clean-up with chainsaws at 7:20 AM yesterday.

Then we come to NaNoWriMo. A lot of words made there way from my confused brain onto the computer screen. They are only somewhat coherent, meandering, contradictory and readable only in the sense that they are mostly spelled correctly. The energy required to do this isn’t really worth the final result this year but I just can’t seem to resist trying and it did make for an interesting exercise. The mess of letters that came out of this year’s effort is definitely going in the drawer for a while – or it would if it was on paper, as it is it will go on a flash drive and sit there for now.

November was a busy month. Now I will try to keep some level of productivity going on the writing front as I deal with December. I really like December, it tends to be a busy and difficult month as well, but I really like it.

Oh, and I’m waiting for them to show up at 6 o’clock some morning to grind down the tree stump that is still there.