Archive for October, 2003

San Diego Fire headlines

In: Blog

30 Oct 2003

I’m fine, no worries here. The air is even clean, thanks to a change in the wind. But the fire news just keeps getting worse. We lost a firefighter today, an entire town yesterday, and the end is not in sight. I’m too overwhelmed to try to summarize it all, but here’s California Wildfires at [...]

10/28/2003 8:44 AM Five more days to NaNoWriMo. Well, four if you don’t count Saturday, which is the first day to start writing. I don’t know how I will ever be able to write 50,000 words in one month. It just seems impossible, since I can’t even make myself do 2500 words a day, even [...]

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San Diego on Fire, Day 2

In: Blog

27 Oct 2003

Here’s what the news stations media are calling it: “Firestorm 2003″. Dramatic to the end, but even Fox News is having a hard time overdramatizing what is happening here. You’ll hear the numbers on the news eventually: at least 11 dead, two dozen more deaths being “investigated”; at last count [although nobody's had time to [...]

Yellow sky at dawn

In: Blog

26 Oct 2003

The morning dawned an eery yellow but the sky remained dark to the west, a black cloud spreading. Back home in Minnesota, the mustard glow can mean only one thing: tornado weather. But here in Southern California, it’s a different story. I knew there must be a fire somewhere not far away. A big fire. [...]

My Laziness

In: Just write

25 Oct 2003

10/25/2003 3:16 PM Did somebody say 2500 words? A day? Me? Nah. Couldn’t be. I wouldn’t commit to something as ridiculous as that. What, do you think I’m stupid or something? Don’t answer that. All right, so I promised–no, VOWED–to write 2500 words a day. I didn’t mention WHICH days, did I? So I’m off [...]


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