TrickyBuddha Studios

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This post is a little late because last night but we lost our cable connection. (That means we also lost our internet connection since we have a cable modem.) Then this morning we woke up and it looks like we’ve lost our water, too (it’s below zero Fahrenheit, even now at noon). The place is falling down around us.

So instead of what I was going to post about, I’ll instead ask, “How can the water freeze in this place every year? Doesn’t there come a point where they figure that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure? And how come every year the people who come to fix things tell us that the people who fixed it last year were incompetent?” You don’t have to answer these questions. I think I already know the answer.

Update #1: Well, we have a fail. These guys couldn’t get the water running so they’re going to try again tomorrow.

Update #2: We have water, folks. Hot and cold. Flushing toilets. And actual honest-to-goodness insulation on the pipes. I’m so happy I could eat some turkey and mashed potatoes (Thanksgiving? Get it? Eh?).

For a long while now I’ve wanted to post some of my old writings. I don’t write much anymore (read: at all) and my old writings really have no value stashed away on a back-up drive. Why not share them?

And no time like the present. Right? So maybe every once in a while I’ll dig something up and post it until everything’s up on this site. Who knows - maybe by the time I get everything finished I’ll have managed to make some headway on the story in my head. :p

As to today’s offering, check the sidebar or click this link to read a screenplay I wrote (for a writing class at the U of Tennessee) called “B.ourbon S.treet Medley”.

This was my final project for a 300-level class that semester (my last semester, actually - so around April/May 1999) and it’s about 3,600 or 3,700 words (depending on whether you trust the WordPress or OpenOffice word counters). I think the formatting held up pretty well despite many file format conversions, but if I’ve broken any of the rules you can let me know.

I’ll tell you right now that it fits into the surrealist theme so if that’s not your thing I’d just steer clear. But in my own defense, and maybe to entice you a little, the teacher said she’d fail anyone who even tried to write a surrealist play; she gave me an A- for this effort.

As always, questions, comments, suggestions, criticisms, etc. - feel free to share them. If you read it, even if you don’t have anything to say, at least add a comment to let me know. I’d love to hear from you.

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I spent most of my free time today playing Fallout 3 (and I’m itching to get back to it) and I spent most of my writing time updating the site to WordPress 2.7 (it might be a “point-something” update, but it looks completely new). It’s a busy life, I’ll tell you. Thankfully, everything works so I don’t have to spend additional time on it. And I can get back to Fallout 3 that much more quickly.

Anyway.

After updating, I was browsing through the new layout when I got distracted by the “185 posts” statistic on the dashboard. 185? Of course, the next thing was to figure out how many posts I wrote prior to my current streak. On October 11th, I wrote a post on my thoughts for the now-past election; that was 62 days ago, I think. That’s somewhat significant. The goal was to post every day but to not worry about it if I missed a day here or there. But the thing is, I really like the routine. And I like having this site as a record of my thoughts and even some conversations (for better or worse on both points). And I also know how annoyed I get when a site I really enjoy reading goes dead for weeks or months at a time. So I figure that no matter what I’m going to try to post every day for one year and hit 360-consecutive posts. After that? We’ll see.

I think I can do it. :p