To write a short story

I was on Bec's Blog the other day reading about getting things done. Well, I've been dabbling with writing my story as a child growing up for some years now, but have been away from it for quite a while. So I made this bold statement in her blog that I was going to write a short story. Which I have begun, although at this point it's very short. I having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to go about it. I mean, I don't really have a plot nor and end. I guess you can understand the difficulty in this project. So, Bec happened to send me a quote; “You write your first draft with your heart and you re-write with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think.”
-- Sean Connery. I thought that sounded like good advice and have been thinking about how you actually accomplish that.

Then, last night I watched a movie called Finding Forrester, which is, basically, a store about mentoring. It's a great movie and if you haven't seen it I would highly recommend it. So in this movie, that stars Sean Connery, is this exact quote that I mentioned above. I was blown away, what a coincidence that was.

In it, they simply sat down at a type writter and wrote. I'm trying to figure out how this would work. I mean don't you have to know the basic story and it's end before you start writing? Can you really just let your mind wander around with random thoughts and actually create something? I wonder.

Dinner for one!

Laurel and Hardy go Dancing

A classic moment in movie history.

Better Potato Peeling

Now this is a really neat little trick.

The Black Hole

Continuous Chest Compression CPR

This we all need to watch for each others sake.

The Cable Guy

So, I've been sitting here all day (it's now 1:30pm) waiting for the cable guy to arrive. I had an appointment slot from 8:00-11:00am. I guess he got here somewhere around the 11 O'clock hour. He's this big Jamican guy that trompted right into the house and onto the carpeting with big his wet and muddy boots on first. Then he travels around the house, sounding like a bull in a china shop (no kidding) trying to replace the current set top boxes with his and he ain't too gentle about it either. Of course, there are problems here and there and then he hooked up the phone (was on FIOS). Just for the heck of it I punched in the access number to see what your phone number is to verify that it was in fact mine. WRONG! I have no idea who's number it is, but it's not close to mine. Then he wants me to remove a cable splitter that's burried within the cabinets/mantle over the fireplace. WRONG! Then we turn on the projection tv and the picture is clear as a bell. WRONG! Then I tried to adjust the volumn on the TV in the living room. Surprise, surprise, it DON'T work. Then I tried to set up my email. He didn't leave me with any account information. It's getting BETTER! Now, he said that he's got to go and straighten our the phone number and will be back within an hour. WRONG! It's been almost 2 hours. I don't know why he could simply call the office, but who am I to question?

I'm starting to think that I really screwed up and made a VERY stupid mistake just to save $50 a month. Or at least it's $50 according to the salesman anyway. Of course, that's yet to be seen.

Oh and yes, I have 3 customers waiting for me to work on their computers. It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood!

The iPad

I was having lunch with a friend today and she mentioned something that made me Laugh Out Loud (LOL). We were talking about eBooks (aka. Kindle, iPad, etc), when she mentioned that she and several of her friends were recently together talking about the iPad and immediately a new name came to their collective minds. They call it the tampod! They also questioned, didn't Steve J. have any women working on his team!!!

Now that's funny!

Where's the Snowman

OK, so I was looking out the front door and what should I see? Looks like a snowman walked up the walk. I mean can you imaging the gaul of the guy? Now there's an interesting item, I just called the snowman a guy. Are there snowgals or snowwomen? I've never heard that expression, so it must be true that all these creatures made out of snow are male.

Whether gal or guy, hopefully they'll all melt and spring will head our way soon.

The Kitten is bigger that the Cat

It's really hard to believe that this 8 month old kitten is bigger than our 12 year old Cat.

Dancin' the Boogie

Now, we can all do this of course, right? :-)