June Goals

I'm still in a bit of a daze. I just found out some friends met through LRF lost their two-year-old son in a drowning accident. Death is hard enough to understand, but harder still when it's a child born in your village--so to speak.

I've got the June Goals up. I kept the weekly and monthly the same and practice will help me to reach them. The goals listed for each individual project is where I need to be by the end of June.

Oh and "The Front Porch" earned one rejection. 50% there.

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Three day weekend!

11:30am And I'm spending my free Monday cleaning. *SIGH*

Well I have gotten the doorway between the living room and office cleared again. It was blocked by the open sewing table filled with papers. Unfortunately most of the papers are now in the office for filing. If I could just grasp the concept of filing once a week, I wouldn't have a box full to do at once.

Consequently, I didn't get a chance yesterday to play with Alt. BM Site version 2.0. I'm hoping for tonight. It all depends on the progress I make.

2:00pm Well, I've gotten Chad's videos consolidated to one box, matching my box of taped videos and the box of audio tapes. The eventual goal is to move the movies/TV episodes to DVD format or find them on DVD to buy, and to make the audio tapes mp3s. I'm no where near ready to start on that project. Scanning papers is working fine, and I found another box of papers to go through. One note led me to Mononoke Hime, an anime music video by RYS set to "Real World" by Queensryche. I had fell in love with that video years ago, but alas my copy was not on my harddrive and the CD was lost. Now I have it all over again. JOY!

And I finally opened up Microsoft Outlook. Over 1500 messages and I think only 10 are worth keeping. I'm glad version 2.0 of Alt. BM Site will not need email addresses. Form feedback from now on. (Yes, all that spam from just the three addys I have with Alt. BM Site. Deletion and setting up the spam blocker is going to take hours.)

6:30pm Well, I have a living room of sorts back if you ignore the tall stack of empty boxes. And I'm tired.

7:30pm Finished the deletion of the Inbox. 1512 spam messages. And I started pecking at it this morning.

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And up not so early on a Sunday

I think it's a reaction to my X-Men 3 after-viewing hyperactivity last night. I didn't get up till 9:30am this morning.

Argh! I need more friends to go see that movie so I can TALK about it.

And finally got to see the new BMFM series trailer.Like I've always said it's the dialouge and storylines that win me over first. All the fuzzy boys' voice actors are the same and it sounds like they clicked right into the easy banter that made the first series so enjoyable. And the intrigue over Stoker; Throttle's calling him a sell-out! Carbine's defending him! has got all the wheels turning in my brain. I liked the little meow sound made when the bad guys stuff blew up.

All in all, I think it rocks. It gave me the same goose-bumping, "this is something TOTALLY different" that I got eleven years ago. (DAMN!) The upgrade is all the more necessary to Alt BM Site.

Moving right along, I missed going to Lowe's and Albertsons yesterday. One was closed and I ran out of time for the other. So I'm going to hit those this morning and then come home and clean. And once I get another room done, I'll start playing with Alt BM Site. I got two errors to fix, someway of trying to make FoxFire's Picks an admin-only selection--maybe make it a separate Image Gallery choice!--and pages to set up, before playing with CSS and uploading content.

1:00pm Finished with town unless I decide to go get supper out. Time to get started on the living room. *Twitch*

5:30pm After another trip to town (I had bought the wrong size of dividers yesterday), the pattern file cabinet is finished. I had bought 1 stackable, plastic drawer, and it's full and to heavy to slide right. And we have more patterns on back order. :p I need a real filing cabinet and no place in the back bedroom to put it.

Back to the living room project.

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Up Early on a Saturday

9:30am Up since 7:30am. Ridiculous on a weekend. My body doesn't understand the concept of sleep-in.

With only a few minor hiccups, everything seems to be going pretty well on the Alt BM Site version 2.0. I'm almost at the stage to start making everything match and look pretty (otherwise known as messing with Cascading Style Sheets). Then a little beta testing as I upload version 1.0's content and we should be in business. *Knocking on wood.*

Today is going to be busy. I've already started the laundry, and would like to have 3/4ths of the house done before going to town for whatever supplies needed and X-Men 3.

I don't forsee much writing time, but if everything go smoothly, maybe by Monday.

11:00am Back bedroom mostly finished except for things I need to buy and set up.

1. over the door hook


2. industrial-strength garment rack because AMF garb is killing the one it is on. And I don't know how I ended up with all of it either.


3. filing cabinet of a sort for the patterns. They have out grown two boxes now.


4. Expanding foam or something to plug big hole next to the AC unit.

Next, figure out what to do with the extra furniture in my bedroom.

12:30pm Trying to knock yourself out with a bookshelf is a bad idea. Said bookshelf is now in the backbedroom, not really set up. But the only spots I have free in the other rooms have doors in them. :S

Don't really know where to go now. Kitchen, office, and living room are kind of overlapping messes at this point. Aggravating.

4:30pm Well the computer acted up, and I watched a movie for a couple of hours. Also out of washing detergent and couldn't finish the laundry. So I have shopping to do and a movie I want to go see and I don't feel like I've gotten anything finished. *Sigh*

Well I got X-Men 3 at 8pm, and I need to get cleaned up and take care of the shopping.

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Behold the power of the internet

Or maybe that should be the "fury" of the Internet. As of 1:21 p.m. Central time today, 3,203 results come up in Google Blog search for Barbara Bauer. My post came in on page 6 of the search too.

I'm taking the day off from writing writing and working on the Alt. BM Site update. I figured out how to get the Tortures posted, but the title needs tweaking. I don't want all the posts under "T for Torture" on the Index page, but just having the number looks wrong. I did get the Index page double posting in the menu list fixed, and turned off the RSS feed stuff. Turns out it's for collecting RSS feeds not sending them out. I want to send them out.

I played with the Front Page module but had to turn it off, when I almost locked myself out of the site. I think that'll be fun tweaking after I get to fix the CSS stuff.

Next on tha agenda is figuring out the mature content. I haven't started on what Bek suggested to do, mainly cause I haven't had the time. Maybe this afternoon. Can't count on tonight, I need to go through another box in the living room. I did good last night. I repackaged three boxes kept in the office into two with more room while watching Two Towers and enjoying a hard granny smith cider. :D

Still don't like how the ents are protrayed. Considering that's my one gripe for the whole trilogy (you figure out the film hours), I guess it ain't too bad. But you can still have the ents on the fence so Merry can make his speech and have the ents knowing what's happening to their trees. What kind of a tree herder are you if you don't?

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Along with Miss Snark, I'm pissed

So here's my helping hand. No scamming agent is going to get away with hurting the online writing community for telling the truth.

Barbara Bauer is listed on the SFWA's Twenty Worst Agents list. She also managed to get an interruption of service pulled on Absolute Write (details here) While not technically an interruption of service attack, the site is coming back online at a different host, hopefully with all data intact.

Oh and Ms. Bauer, you don't scare me. Here's another copy of the Twenty Worst Agents list. These guys are scammers, not sincere and real agents.

* The Abacus Group Literary Agency
* Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to "book doctor" Victor West of Pacific Literary Services)
* Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
* Benedict Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
* Sherwood Broome, Inc.
* Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, Inc.)
* Desert Rose Literary Agency
* Arthur Fleming Associates
* Finesse Literary Agency (Karen Carr)
* Brock Gannon Literary Agency
* Harris Literary Agency
* The Literary Agency Group, which includes the following:
-Children's Literary Agency
-Christian Literary Agency
-New York Literary Agency
-Poets Literary Agency
-The Screenplay Agency
-Stylus Literary Agency (formerly ST Literary Agency, formerly Sydra-Techniques)
-Writers Literary & Publishing Services Company (the editing arm of the above-mentioned agencies)
* Martin-McLean Literary Associates
* Mocknick Productions Literary Agency, Inc.
* B.K. Nelson, Inc.
* The Robins Agency (Cris Robins)
* Michele Rooney Literary Agency (also d/b/a Creative Literary Agency, Simply Nonfiction, and Michele Glance Rooney Literary Agency)
* Southeast Literary Agency
* Mark Sullivan Associates
* West Coast Literary Associates (also d/b/a California Literary Services)

This list can be found at SFWA's Writer Beware site

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Blue Man second Draft finished!

Be sure to check out Discipline Under Fire for the changed scenes. If you're interested in doing beta reading for me, contact me.

I feel much better about this draft, though still wobbly about Murdock's character. I also want to get Holly Lisle's language creation book she's working on. (Write faster please! :D) I am guilty of just stringing sounds together and passing that off as a language. If Zy's novel is picked up and becomes a series, alien vocabulary has to work.

Anyways, I am over-limit still. Oops. I'm not sure at this point what can be cut.

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"The Blue Man"

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Librarian Mode update!

The replacement part for the shelving unit finally came in today. They sent the right peice in white. I bought oak shelves. I said "what the hell, this is ALL temporary until I build a library with permanent shelving!" and put it together anyway.

So I'm finished shelving books in my bedroom and now have a set of open pine shelves that I haven't found a place for yet. I thought both sets were going in the kitchen, but the current configuration only allows for one set. I still have to shuffle the fiction books in the office to the living room, make sure everything is shelved, and double-check the BookCAT entries. I have some books that have to be entered manually flagged (published before ISBN was created or mandatory for every book), but with the shuffling I've just done I know I messed that flagging system up.

I got all my Agatha Christie's in publication order and am miffed. I bought a short story compilation book, thinking it was all her short stories. Nope, only selected ones :p, so I wasn't able to weed out the falling-apart paperbacks. Many years ago, they put out a leather-bound, English titles set of at least all the novels (but it could have the short story collections too), with shiny gold lettering on the spine. My grandmother bought them, and no I'm not holding my breath to inherit them with the way the extended family has been lately. And a quick check with Amazon shows they aren't for sell anymore. Pity, too bad I was a broke high school student when they came out.

However I can still get this guy's work. Probably just in the books, since I can't afford his prints.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689852185/102-2437751-6103336?v=glance&n=283155

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My legs are in sorry shape

Been battling heel pain all weekend, and think it's been casused by not stretching everything properly. I didn't even know there are stretches for the feet. I'm trying out a new stretching routine, but it's hard to remember to do it at work when I stand up. I also don't have the board I need at work either. Anyways, I'm giving it a couple of weeks to heal before going to the doctor.

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For the record

I never liked the first how Cyndia found the saucer scene, but did like a lot of what developed in the saucer after. The second try at this discovery scene is going much better.

I don't know how much I'm going to get accomplished this weekend, because Chad's at my house. But I'm at least going to work on writing.

Today's totals:

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Waiting for pizza to bake

And I'm too tired to play with the website, and lost my writing time since I had to go to Wal-Mart and buy pizza and inner soles. So hopefully my feet won't ache as much next week.

But today at the gym. I try not to be bitter, but I paid for my locker for a year. I picked one in the end section because it was next to the showers and sauna--both of which I use frequently. So why do the skinny little hos have to drop shoes, towels, water bottles, jewelry etc on the bench in any haphazard fashion that leaves no room for anyone to set anything down while they get whatever they need out of the locker while they're gossiping in the sauna? You pay tuition same as me, and it don't pay for a fucking maid to put your shit in a pile for you so other users of a public space have some room.

Yeah, it pissed me off. Okay, now I have eaten and I can go to bed.

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Almost time for me to go home

So I'm posting my current results. Hopefully, no family drama tonight and I can actually work on writing after getting back from the gym.

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The Blue Man (over the limit due to no deletions yet)

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My feet hurt

I guess I can't blame my feet. After all, I'm managing a little over a mile in my normal routine and then adding a mile to that at the gym. Last week's weight was 192 pounds, so small wonder it feels like I need new shock absorbers.

So I'm signed up for Hardboiled Heroes and Cozy Cats, including a 10 minute pitch to an editor. And I don't have anything finished to pitch. I'm going to have to do some research on whatelse can I do with the time, but I feel bad. I would have left that selection blank had I realized it was pitching.

But just in case someone wants something of mine, I'm working on "Blue Man." Slowly. I woke up at 4:30am and managed a little writing today. But it's a late bedtime and getting up tomorrow is going to be tough.

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"The Blue Man on the Porch" (Over the word limit because I haven't started deleting yet)

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NEWS!

I'm going to be an aunt! In July! Kai kept her pregnancy a secret, not wanting to get everybody all excited and then lose the baby.

And I over-slept again. Well, that's starting not to be news :p

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*Sigh* Bad weekend

I'm still stuck on cleaning house. The goal is to finish it this weekend, so I'll have next weekend free when Chad comes in.

The house isn't cooperating. *pout*

But I want this
That will come in so handy, when my neighbors turn on their backdoor light that shines in the bedroom window.

I haven't had a chance to do any website playing or writing. I hate weekends filled with what I HAVE to do as opposed to what I WANT to do.

8pm Update: Got the kitchen rearranged and added a brevage only dorm fridge. What's left?

• Kitchen: done except remainder of dishes, replacing table, and building plate rack


• Office: Need to finish putting up books and filing papers that are currently in the living room. Books waiting on new bookshelf. New bookshelf waiting for me to call during business hours about broken part


• Back bedroom: stuff on bed needs final dealing with. One more box to go through, maybe something bigger for filing patterns. WOuld like apothocary chest for magic tools. Oh and the bed, but I need another person for that, keeping the boxspring and matress up while fixing the metal support underneath it.


• My bedroom: waiting on the new bookcase so I can switch around bookcases. Can probably hang the gold mirror over the dresser


• Bathroom: needs new sink, new faucet for bathtub, will probably only get to mop it


• Living room: *Twitch* Go through everything and decide where it needs to go. One piled high sewing table, 5 to 6 boxes, and stuff on couch *TWITCH*

In other news, I got Drupal upload or download or something. Anyways, I'm in the figuring out the behind the scenes stuff and why is that not working stage. I haven't even gotten to making it pretty. But that shouldn't be too far away.

To bed early tonight and sticking to the damn schedule.

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Alt BM Site Redesign Notes

Mainly cause I'm taking up too many windows at work. At home, with FireFox and it's lovely tabs, I can reopen these.

http://drupal.org/
Book Review module
Front Page module
Image Module
Collaborative book--I don't think this is what I'm looking for yet.
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So I have this available for later

Indoor track at gym is 1/8 of a mile. 20 laps equals 2.5 miles.

Shit! No wonder my feet hurt.

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My first day on the new schedule

And I overslept. It's okay, I'll get on schedule soon enough. Tonight is my first night back at the gym in probably two months, so that will help.

I bought a 1GB flash drive for the laptop. Now I can do websuilding at work. *INSERT MANICAL LAUGHTER HERE* I just have to remember not to pull it out while anything is still open. I doubt I'll make that mistake again after the Dante paper fiasco. Now I just have to find out if the file uploader program will run without being installed to the server. I may have to run a closed test site for that. Anyways, that's lunchtime fun.

Here's a question? How many words can you put on a double-spaced page? I just need an average. I don't think I calculated the word count for the paper right.

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Awake and feeling like shit

Which proves I shouldn't go on the Internet and read anything because I will run across something that will make me feel worse.

I never do learn and I really don't want to discuss it while I'm faced with the choice of having to rewrite the big chunk of my cursed paper on my planned recovery day from said paper.

I have to get dressed and deal with my car and I don't even have the willpower to do that.

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This can't be happening

I finished it. Ended being 13 pages long, 3240 words. and because I was an idiot and pulled the zip drive out wrong, the file is now totally corrupted.

There is no back up. I was in such a hurry to put it on the desktop to send it, now it's gone. And all I have left is the first 5 pages I did day before yesterday.

Okay, maybe some good news! If this converter thing can make any sense out of the backup on the laptop. Well I don't know what converter I'm supposed to download, I can only hope I'm making the right choice.

Choice A wrong, trying to find a choice B. I can't believe it is more than likely gone.

Tried it nothing worked/ I have to write the whole damn thing again tomorrow on what was supposed to be my stress free day getting the car fixed.

Yeah, I'm going to bed now


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Too evil for words

Lucus is probably going to send Boba Fett after them but it's still too hysterical.

American Jedi

I wish I had seen that in the theaters instead of Episodes 1 - 3! It looks like it actually has a plot. And yes, it's still funny even if you haven't seen American Pie. I want a lightsaber lacross stick.

On a more serious note now that I've finished supper. I have four pages at least left in the paper to write. I brought everything but my notes to work, and couldn't work on it without the notes. I also had to take out the Italian so my word count dropped.

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*TWITCH*

My back and neck hurt, the muscle relaxer has finally worn off so I'm not operating in a dazed stupor (that finally explains the 5 minutes naps I kept needing yesterday), the paper's still not done but very close, and I better study for the final.

Course if I have to take out the Italian, my paper's going to be much further away from done. Nearest I can tell this apathy must be because my body thinks it's summer already and doesn't want to be bothered. That and the pain and lack of sleep.

I'm taking a stress day. I don't know if it's going to be Tuesday or Wednesday yet, but I also need to take my car to the shop and they're only open Monday - Friday.

Now study.

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Break for lunch

Paid bills and discovered BellSouth is still screwing up my phone bill. I only called about three months ago to have it fixed. *SIGH* I'm on page two, but I haven't done any formating beyond double-spacing. I already have two quotes that are probably going to end up being block quotes. The way my outline has worked out, if I spend a page on each topic I'll meet the ten-page quota. I'm not very worried about going over at this point.

Mustard has a new hiding hole. I'll have to take picture the next time he's in it.

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Thanks

For all the kind words on the inches-loss. Now if everything would just settle down so I could make it pounds-loss. *Shrug* I need something to be obsessed with over the summer anyway.

If you want to see some more pictures of current characters I have in the closet, check out the Garb Closet. Please, it doesn't get any traffic. *Sob*

The desks are almost completely bare, the washer is in a cleaning cycle, I'm dressed in sweats having taken a muscle relaxer already, and the ten page Dante paper awaits.

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Creating May Goals

Been keeping an eye on Southern Expressions and decided I like her monthly goal list. And I'm trying to get more diligent about making and keeping deadline, setting up a writing schedule, articulating it all to set positive force of the universe in line with it, etc.

First list:

• Write Dante 10-page paper


• Take Dante final


• Submit "The Rose"


• Submit "Father's Love"


• Submit "Dreams of the Dead"


• Finish editing "The Blue Man on the Porch"


• Finish editing "Covenant of the Restless


• Finish three chapters in Zy's Novel


• Write 5000 words in Canterbury Murder Mystery


• Write 5000 words in AMF 2007 Resource Guide

Now other than the three submits, how realistic is this list? Probably not very, my habit of overscheduling myself. I need to set reasonable goals.

And sometimes putting exactly what you need Googles what you need. In this case, an article by Lazette Gifford on "Setting Reasonable Goals". My answers to some of her questions:

#2: Will you write everyday?

I want to, but recognize other things have a habit of getting in the way. So I will start this experiment with weekly goals added together for monthly goals.

#3: What other commitments do you have?

Need to go to gym an hour and half (at least) everyday.
Need to start cooking and prepackaging lunches and dinners--one day during the weekend for this and other chores.
Paying job is Monday - Friday 6am - 5pm counting the average commute.
Would like to schedule two hours a week for sewing.

#4: Are the people you live with supportive?

No, Mustard insists on sitting right in front of the computer monitor or on the notebook everytime I sit in my office chair. The boyfriend doesn't live with me and doesn't seem to be in any hurry to visit either so his needs are thrown out of the equation.

#5: How much worldbuilding and outling do you do?

I think I need a better way to save my notes. I have trouble finding them. But nothing--except the Dante paper and Canterbury Murder Mystery--is starting from scratch.

#6: Besides word/page count, what other goals?

I like sending two manuscripts out a month.

#7: And what about rewrites?

Yeah, edits need to be counted as a separate goal. I should dedicate at least one writing period a week to just working on edits.

#8: Reading

I really don't have to schedule that in. *Sheepish grin*

#9: Goals for rest of your life.

I guess boyfriend and parent time fit here, but the idea makings me say "damn it." My mother dumped to much sister crap on me. For this month, I'm ignoring them.

So I've five writing goals for totally new words.

• I need to write 3000 words a week to finish Zy's Novel by October.


• I need to write 620 words a week to finish AMF 2007 Resource Guide by September.


• I need to write 1250 words a week to finish the Canterbury Murder Mystery by July.


• Not counting Dante paper or final 'cause after next week they won't matter.

So the weekly total of words at this point = 4870 words. Don't start shouting "you can do it!" The point is to reach my goals and not have a burnout, coronary or anuerism.

Two stories are on the editing block. Right now, I've gotten the new direction on "Blue Man" started, so that's what I'll finish in May.

And I like sending just two stories out for submission that way, I already have something ready to go for June.

Now let's chart out the daily schedule. (May 5th: Got tired of how much room it was taking up in the post and wanted color. Click the link to see the prettier version.)

Schedule is designed for after classes are done, but before physical therapy ends. I hate scheduling every minute of the day, but I'm equally tired of false expectations of what my writing output can be. Once I lose the weight I need to, I can scale back on how many days are spent in the gym. And physical therapy won't last forever. I'm exhausted at the end of the day, so my writing time is 4 am Monday - Sunday, with extra time as needed on Saturday and Sunday. And I found one more hour available Tuesdays and Thursdays.

So how many words can I write in an hour? I think I can manage 400 words, but I haven't timed myself. 400 words x 8 = 3200 words (1 writing period for editing), which leaves 1670 words for Saturday and Sunday.

*Perks up* Now the total of what I need feels managable. It didn't when I tallied the numbers. One hour a week for editing, I can get the submissions ready on Saturday/Sunday to mail out on Monday. Now you can start encouraging chanting.

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Links to Print out and use

Book Reviews for Writers

The Healthy Writer

Five Important Tools in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Help Files

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Proof of Inches gone

October 2005


April 2006


The middle is actually meeting. Now once I get back to the gym, I take measurements.

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