i finally went to a place i’ve known about my whole life. Wild West City (billed as the ‘Best of the West in the Heart of the East) ran commercials on local tv stations when i was a kid. this place is a classic NJ icon. the guy who sang their song in the commercials […]

i’m just squeezing this in quickly, so forgive my brevity.
the wordcount keeps mounting and i’ve only missed two days. huzzah! more importantly, i’m writing something new every day.

4,690 / 12,250(38.3%)

but i wanted to do at least a partial blog entry on my weekend and birthday and such.
before i dig in though, i’m very happy to say that i upgraded my wordpress install tonight. it had a couple of hiccups, but i was able to fix the problems with very little teeth-gnashing and now i’ve […]

to keep myself occupied from sad thoughts, i’m plunging ahead with planning projects for the remainder of this year and stuff i’ll be starting in january. i know it seems a bit premature to be thinking about next year, but there are some things i’d like to do that require some preparation if i’m going […]

omg! i just read the first nanowrimo email of the season. the official site will be shutting down on monday so they can clean things up for the start up in october. yippee! that means nano is on it’s way.
i got a little jolt of excitment reading the email about the neat things they […]