Someone is getting ready for national novel writing month: Word count | Hog Bay Software:
Why? Writers can use word count as a benchmark to see if they have met their target for the day. Three numbers seem important: total number of words in document, number of words selected, number of words this session.
Knowing when you’ve gotten those 1500 words a day is important.
My first cyanotype experiment today. Failed. No image remained once I washed the print, and it was very faint when I first took it out of the sun. The high latitude and the lateness of the season were factors I wasn’t aware of. More paper is drying below stairs so if the day if fine, I’ll try again tomorrow. With any luck at all, I may share a scan this time tomorrow.
Drawing class tomorrow night: the family persuaded me to stop spoiling paper and learn some technique, so off I go. Four weeks, 10 hours total. And I still have to get my shiny new pencils and large eraser. Like I mind shopping in art supply stores.
My drill press arrived today, so my camera-building experiments can resume. It came sans handle or chuck key, so a trip to Hardwick’s is in order. I can work around the missing handle but the chuck key is a must. Still, $10 is a tough price to beat: it looks pretty new, with clean grease on the various fittings, but just a couple of dents on the cover.
Self-diagnosed a mysterious pain in my head that defied an MRI and a physical. Possible causes ranged from shingles to a tumor, neither of which appealed. If I’m right, it’s displaced pain from some teeth moving around: I had an extraction of a tooth (#3 for those keeping score at home) and was warned that the teeth around the vacancy might move. I didn’t realize it would hurt, but once I came to that possibility, it makes sense. The pain seemed to be around the ear, like an ear ache or infection, but gradually radiating up the side of the skull. The MRI’s vibrations seemed to settle it down, or so it seemed and since then, it has been milder and more localized on the ear again.
And I finally got my new iBook batteries from the recall: now I have two batteries with 4+ hours of juice.