Author: MRJ

Tonight I came home to find that Jacob had eaten at his Nan’s house but Violet had slept through dinner. So after pondering what to make for the two of us, I fired up the barbecue and through on some Hotdogs for her and a couple burgers for me. My goal this winter is to barbeque at least once a month, part of me would like to try for once a week.

Tonight when heading home from work I looked up and saw the moon through some clouds. I never thought that the picture I took could do it justice. I think it turned out pretty good

Today we have a picture of the Wind Turbine at exhibition place.  It’s cool bit I’ve always wonder if there is any more being planned.

Today we setup Melissa’s old laptop on Jacob’s new desk to give him a real computer in his room. He was so excited to have a computer in there that he can play MineCraft on.

Yesterday I wrote about my personal experience competing in NaNoWriMo, Today I thought I would take a look at the different technology I used to try to reach 50,000 words. My first year I had a personal notebook that I wrote on quite successfully. In the years since my laptop died and I haven’t replaced really replaced it. So instead I’ve tried a few different technologies for writing my novel. One year I had hopped to write on my Motorola Milestone, I thought with its slide out keyboard it would be perfect. It wasn’t. So this year I was thrilled when through some opportunities at home and work I started November we access to a Laptop and a Tablet to write my novel. So I thought I’d break this post into two parts, first I will compare the Hardware and then I will compare the different software I used.

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I have had a goatee as long as I can remember. This month I decided to try to grow a full beard. It’s not the first time I’ve tried. Though it was the first time that I kinda like the results. Of course Melissa isn’t a fan, so I’m left wondering if I should shave it off. And if I do shave should I take it all or go back to just the goatee.

The month is over, my mad dash to 50,000 words came up short. Very short. I didn’t even manage to write 15,000 words this year, and that’s including my background and world building work in my word count. Still as I sit here and look back at the month I feel like it’s been a success. I found a new world I want to explore with stories. My son wrote over 1000 words of his own novel and seemed to really enjoy the process. So I thought that I would take some time on this the first of December and write about my experiences during NaNoWriMo

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Today we have a picture of Jacob and Violet taken during their outing with their Nan. After church they headed down town to check out the Christmas decorations around Nathan Phillips Square and the downtown. Today’s picture of the day is of them standing in front of Toronto’s official Christmas tree.

Today during the kids hockey the Marlies interrupted play to skate from their dressing room to the other end of the ice so they could go practice on the Maple Leafs practice rink. Today’s picture is from when they returned. Jacob’s line was on the ice at the time and it was cool to see the players high-fiving the little guys.

Sunday is the first Advent so our little Violet came home from school with this lovely Advent candle.