You never say hi, you never say much, you never make an effort to stay in touch.

[same_sky]

I'm at another down in my novel. I'm not far behind, but I don't want to write any more and I've just about convinced myself not to worry about it too much tonight. I don't work as well on the weekends as during the week, so I think hey, might as well wait until Monday and throw myself at it. I might make myself write another 500 words and then see how I feel. It's another "what happens next" problem.

I'm currently quite excited about a brand new project, although that's not the reason that I'm behind in my novel. Of course, it doesn't help. :) It's an e-zine that we're starting, as suggested by carrieb. There are eight people at the moment tossing ideas at each other and we're having a lot of fun with it so far. At least, I am. :) I'm really beginning to feel like it could be something quite good in the end. I'm sure you'll be updated about this more later on.

The weather is incredible.. about twenty degrees F higher than the average high. It was about 72 today and brilliantly sunny. It's been such a weird year for weather.

Alright. Friends-only thing. I got creeped out, I'm over it. This friends-only experiment made me feel like I have something to be ashamed of or to hide, and I do not. I've given it a few days, but I still feel uncomfortable about it, so even though I hate being wishy-washy about , it's over. My compromise is that I'm going to selectively hide my archives and questionable posts in the future. I'm not going to dwell on this, though.

Oh! One last thing before I try to write again. I mentioned the dogs that my neighbors have. The crazy barking dogs? They haven't been barking at all lately, which is very weird. Anyway, what I wanted to say was that their cage is MUCH bigger than I thought it was. Probably three times as large, so you can stop worrying about the doggies now. :) There's also a neighborhood puppy named Ozzie. It actually belongs to someone, but it runs around outside freely. It's very very friendly and very very stupid. It was really pitiful because it got hit by a car a couple of weeks ago, and my niece was extremely upset. It followed her up to the road when her and my dad were zooming about on the golf cart, and someone hit it. She was sure that it was her fault, so she felt bad. This is a dog that chases cars.. from the front, so it being hit by a car might have been healthy for it in the long run.. it just doesn't see vehicles as a threat. Anyway, it just hurt one of its front legs, and is running around down here again, although it doesn't walk on that leg. It hops along at full speed, but in this awkward little run.. I've been calling it Ozzie Kangaroo. It's so cute.

But it still chases cars. I don't expect it to live too much longer, poor thing.

Comments

[stephbairey.livejournal.com]

Re your ezine, if you need someone to write a quickie website which sends the actual mails, plus has "subscribe here" and "unsubscribe here" links for people, nd an archive of past ezines, I can do that easily. Free, too. :)

Re friends only.. someone once asked what I did when I had sensitive stuff to post. Did I password protect it? Make it friends only? Nope.. I just don't post it. There's no such thing as security online. If it's important enough to protect, it's too important to post. My opinion. :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll remember that. :)

I'm not so much concerned about critical information, just the idea of people I know reading it without telling me--and those people wouldn't know the slightest thing about finding it if it was not immediately available. If someone wants to stalk me, I figure they can do it with a phone book, so it's not a huge deal. And that's part of why I decided that it wasn't worth the effort. :)

I don't think there's such a thing as security offline, either, incidentally. :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

What's an ezine? :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

It's an online magazine thingie. I had thought you might be interested in working on it, but then you didn't show up today.. maybe you missed it or something. You can look at our current plans here. Don't know if that's something you would want to play with or not. :)

From http://www.marketingterms.com/dictionary/ezine/

Definition
An electronic magazine, whether delivered via a Web site or an email newsletter.

Information
Ezines range greatly in size and scope, from irregular newsletters reaching a handful of subscribers to daily journals reaching hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Some ezines are strictly non-profit. Some are extremely profitable. Other would be for-profit if they could attract the necessary audience and advertisers.

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Ooohhh, I must have missed it? Sounds exciting!!

WTF is a wiki???? You are nuts aren't you :)

Seriously though, it all sounds great. I'm jealous. Do you think they'd need any more help? No dramas if they don't. Not that I'm a very good writer. And the 'positive' angle is a bit scary seeing my only strength is sarcasm ;)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Of course. I wouldn't have mentioned it otherwise. I thought you saw all this in Carrie's journal. :) I was kind of expecting you to have signed up today. :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

I'll give you slack, you've given me slack for being so dumb as to miss all of this. I am such a loser :) (I love that about myself by the way) Cool, so I assume I just post there and say hi and introduce myself?? Oh scary!! :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Sure. :) Try the hello thread, for instance. :) You've only missed out on one day's worth of posts, so you can catch up pretty quickly. Yay! More fun people involved. :)

[courtesy.livejournal.com]

Here I go....!

Thanks for the tip :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

No problem! Nightie night! :)

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. Wiki. Neat thing where lots of people--any visitor, in most cases--can change the info on a site, add pages, reformat, etc. Go try it if you want. It's great fun.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

I said that twice, that I had expected you. I'm still in dumb mode. Also, yes, I am nuts, too. I'm up very late, you know, so I should be given slack. :)

[carrieb.livejournal.com]

I bet that poor dumb dog just keeps on chasing cars. My little dog "caught" a car once and I thought she was going to die. It sounded like a child had been hit. She layed around with her eyes bugging out in terror for a day or so, then the next day she was out chasing cars again, hopping along on three feet. Stupid, stupid dog. The sad thing was, hitting the car seemed to damage her hearing and now she's pretty much deaf.

[same-sky.livejournal.com]

It's a friendly puppy, but it doesn't have much grey matter in its head.

I bet that the deafness issue doesn't help with the car chasing, does it? :)