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Turkey Day

Hey everyone!, I know I’ve been a very sporadic blogger recently, and apologize. As today is Thanksgiving, and a day we give thanks for many, many things in life, I wanted to extend a great big Thank You to everyone out there who reads this blog. I smile every time one of you leave a comment—it really does make my day. So, Thank You for reading! Happy Thanksgiving.

Trailing Off . . .

Cross posted from the Tri Mu Blog . I usually try to post craft topics to the Tri Mu blog, but I finished copy edits not too terribly long ago, so I’m in a technical mood—humor me. This is probably something everyone already knows, but I didn’t until the copy edits came in, so I’ll share. Did you know that Microsoft Words default treatment of ellipses is incorrect? For those unsure what an ellipsis is, Wikipedia defines it as “series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word or a phrase from the original text.” Fiction writers use it most commonly to indicate a character trailing off. When writing in Word, the autocorrect option automatically shrinks an ellipsis into three tight little dots, so I always assumed that was correct. Apparently not. Once I received my copyedits, I learned an ellipsis has space between the dots . . . For me, space period space period space period space is not a very natural thing to type, not to mention the spaces create the possib

Off to a crazy start

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Halloween has come and gone (and I already miss it--Halloween is a great holiday. Candy and Costumes. What's not to love?) Me, being me, dressed up for work once again despite the fact I knew I'd be mostly alone in my costumed freakishness. I did actually talk one co-worker to dress up with me. Next year my goal is at least five. ^_^ After work it was off to hand out candy with my fellow Tri-Mus and watch some movies. Then, at midnight, NaNoWriMo began. I wrote only about five hundred words before heading home to get some sleep, but I was back at it the next morning. Saturday night we celebrated our local kick-off. Attendance wasn't great compared to some other events I hosted already this season, but we had a lot of fun. I plan to hit 5k tonight, so I'm plugging along. I could be writing faster, but I'm happy with my current pace. So what is everyone else up to? Anyone have Halloween photo's to share?