{"id":5144,"date":"2011-11-04T23:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polarbear60.org\/randr\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2016-12-14T19:03:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T01:03:26","slug":"nano-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/nano-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"NaNo Day 4: 12653"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four days down. My cumulative total is 12, 653.\u00a0 That means I have 37,347 words to go.\u00a0 Today, I learned my narrator&#8217;s wife-to-be is trying to avoid an arranged marriage&#8211;and not to my narrator.\u00a0 Sounds a little tricky, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>This is my Central Texas workspace:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13064\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF0435-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"NaNo Workspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mini is under the iPad2 on the left.\u00a0 I interact with my various regular web pages on the Mini (I just updated word count on the NaNo site before I took this picture).\u00a0 Odie, one of my sister Debbie&#8217;s stuffed animals (the other one I have of hers is Figment &#8212; he&#8217;s elsewhere) provides constant assistance, supervision, and guidance.\u00a0 The iPod is ready for when I choose to listen to music.\u00a0 Both Macs have external Time Machine drives &#8212; the Mini&#8217;s is to its immediate left, and the Air&#8217;s is between the mouse and Odie.\u00a0 The word count guide for Backward NaNo is in the open notebook propped up on the SQL for Dummies book.\u00a0 And, of course, the Air, where I&#8217;m doing my NaNo work on Scrivener is open on the desk&#8217;s pull out.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t posted about them in a little while. Don&#8217;t they look innocent?\u00a0 Don&#8217;t let that fool you.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13063\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/DSCF0433-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Tarzan and Lady looking innocent\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hubby bought this Jeep hat while we were on vacation.\u00a0 It was supposed to be like the hat Radar wears on MASH, but it didn&#8217;t sit firmly on his head, so he wasn&#8217;t happy with it.\u00a0 One day last week, I came out of the kitchen to find the hat on the parlor rug, and it was chewed &#8212; see lower right corner.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13066\" src=\"https:\/\/pmtoo.jeanschara.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/IMG_0057-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"the hat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hubby returned from San Antonio, and I broke the news to him that the kittens had destroyed his hat.\u00a0 I brought it to him.\u00a0 He looked at it, and presented it to the kittens.\u00a0 Tarzan sniffed it, but Lady picked it up and ran off with it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s their hat now, and they&#8217;ve been carrying it around the house.\u00a0 They bring it upstairs at night, and I find it in bed with me in the morning (the hat is shown on the comforter and cat fleece &#8212; yes I know they clash).\u00a0 Sometime during the morning, one of them brings the hat downstairs.\u00a0 You may be able to see additional chewing on it toward the top of the hat.<\/p>\n<p>Lady is still very interested in writing &#8212; or, at least, in writing instruments.\u00a0 Tonight, while I was finishing today&#8217;s word count, she came running down the stairs carrying a pen from my nightstand.\u00a0 I had to chase her down to get it back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 555px; left: 440px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four days down. My cumulative total is 12, 653.\u00a0 That means I have 37,347 words to go.\u00a0 Today, I learned my narrator&#8217;s wife-to-be is trying to avoid an arranged marriage&#8211;and not to my narrator.\u00a0 Sounds a little tricky, doesn&#8217;t it? 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