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Cloddiness Sucks

This is what happens when you give a clod the dangerous weapon like a pullover hoodie. Those things should be outlawed.

Two quick updates:
1 - Writing - started up Chapter 2. Only a few pages in but only had an hour to write
2 - Running - got back into jogging the last 2 days--went to an indoor track at a local community college and damn, am I old. Not only do I hurt like hell for running 2 miles, but the girls playing basketball in the courts down below where I jog are starting to look too young. Today's a sad, SAD day. :)

Snow!!

Writing Update: DOWN THE SHORE is now at 24 pages. Slowly but surely.

The Watcher

Writing Update

15 pages written. Not half bad.

Got a few minutes ...

...so I thought I'd share some of the random posts (and random silence) that's been happening here.

1. NINE INCH NAILS

First off, last Thursday night I saw Nine Inch Nails at the House of Blues in Atlantic City. Best show I've ever seen. See that light on the left? My seat was just above it. Yeah, I coulda spit on Trent, had I not been busy thrashing around in my seat.

For those interested, my Ubuntu Desktop now looks like this (thanks to Picasa from Google and their new Linux port--ultimate fanboyism is a piece of cake):

2. Writing

I've decided that if I don't start focusing on the two or three projects I've had boiling for a while, I'm going to actually go insane. Work and family tends to overtax my free time and, while I'm not copmplaining, I have certain goals that I wish to accomplish in this incredibly short life. One of those goals is to become a published author. Now, while I've accomplished this goal in some sense (had a bunch of short stories published in various forms), I am officially making "published novelist" my goal. I've put together a task list, a plan on when I need to hit those milestones and I'm going to start holding myself accountable when I slip. After all, this is real. This is life.

-Jack

Veteran's Day

Just wanted to take a moment and thank all those that served this country, past and present.

I, for one, appreciate your sacrifice and your service.

-Jack

The Writin'

All right, so I've got three projects in the works and a rough, thrown-together schedule. I'm not talking about any of them, except to give updates of my progress.

To all you writers out there, I saw something on a sign today that all writers should live by:

"A goal without a plan is just a dream."

This is entirely true. At work, I make plans and steps and my team achieves each and every goal successfully due to those plans. But when it comes to my writing, I let things languish, deadlines go by, shit, basically, don't get done.

Not anymore. I've got my goals now, not just my dreams.

-Jack

Nine Inch Nails - House of Blues - Atlantic City, NJ - 11/6/2008

Fourth Row, Center ... on the aisle. Trent Reznor was right in front of me.

Best. Concert.

Ever.

I can miss every other concert in the world and die a VERY happy man.

Setlist:

• Pinion
  
• Love Is Not Enough
  
• Terrible Lie
  
• 1,000,000
  
• Letting You
  
• March of the Pigs
  
• Piggy
  
• The Frail
  
• The Wretched
  
• The Collector
  
• Survivalism
  
• Reptile ( with peter murphy)
  
• Closer
  
• Discipline
  
• The Beginning of The End
  
• Ghosts 31
  
• Wish
  
• Head Down
  
• Gave Up
  
• The Line Begins To Blur
  
• Only
  
• God Given
  
• Down In It
  
• Hurt
  
• Starfuckers Inc.
  
• The Hand That Feeds
  
• Head Like A Hole
  

Two Words: Peter-fucking-Murphy.

That is all.

-Jack

Nine Inch Nails!!!

Drew is happy, happy, happy!