Thursday, November 1, 2007 | by nathan

Aaaaaand we’re off!

Today is the start of National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for the uninitiated. It’s possible that November will be a semi-sparse month blog-wise for me, so thanks in advance for not abandoning me altogether. If you’re doing NaNoWriMo, or if you’re wanting to just read some of my laughably terrible fiction, you may follow along with me at the WriMo website; my user name is okaycity.

Also, I got my new shoes in the mail yesterday, so as soon as I pick up a replacement Nike Sport Kit (grr bahh!) I’ll get back to posting my run times. My 5K is a week from this Saturday, and I’m recovering from a fairly nasty sinus infection, but I expect to be back to my regular 80% functionality by the time it comes around. After all people, I’m in it to win it.*

Also, for no other reason than nostalgia, and because I knew Brian would like something to tinker on, I bought this on eBay this week:

I’d like to point out here that I paid far more for the shipping on this dinosaur than I did for the computer itself, but hey. I’m actually considering installing the *ORIGINAL* MS Word on it (the one on which I wrote my first novel attempts and short stories at age 8 in my dad’s office), and making it an internet-free writing space. But who am I kidding? I’d have just as much a problem procrastinating with Hypercard and Kid Pix as I do with the internet. Does anyone know where I can download software for this thing? Is there a place on the web to do that? Come through for me here, internets.

* and by "win it," of course, as usual, I mean "finish at all, even if it kills me."