o cruel snowdrifts of fate
Jan. 23rd, 2005 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7By the drifting of the snow in the wind, half of our driveway was clear. From the windows, this looked good: little to shovel. I couldn't guess at our total accumulation, but I'm going to make a wild stab and say eight inches. Of that mean grainy-sticky blizzard snow.
So Dave went out light-heartedly to get rid of the drifts in front of the garage (two feet high) and at the front of the house (a foot or so).
Well, the other half of the driveway was also under a two-foot drift for its entire length.
Pain in the ass. But, we persevered, and I am nicely warmed up for work now, i guess. (Ugh. Sticky. I hate exercising in the cold because you can never find a good temperature to be.)
We ate Chinese takeout and watched The Bourne Supremacy last night. It was fun; exciting movie, nice complex plot, Karl Urban looking ratty, Matt Damon's nose is really big. Hell of a car chase-- I liked all the camera work from inside the cars being struck, though I think it might have been a little more interesting had they acknowledged that there ought to have been people inside those other cars. They were trying to make the move realistic and human? Oh well. Dave hadn't seen the prequel and didn't really need to, though we might watch it at some point if we ever get bored enough.
Today I hope to get some sort of control over ch. 5. The events in it are unfolding far too abruptly, as I've shifted so much of the sequence around. i cut out a night because it was too slow-paced, but that makes everything that ensues happen rather too quickly. Curses on this 'pacing' thing.
But I am still confident in Ch. 4, which means that can go up tomorrow without a problem. Just... I'd hoped to stay 2 chapters ahead at all times in case of drastic time-crunch problems, and I haven't. I hope I can make some time this week and get things done! I have a lot to do tomorrow, though-- things that should have gotten done last wed&thu (my weekend) but didn't because I was playing with a puppy in Melrose instead. Bah. Chapter 5 needs to behave.
I have to leave for work in 45 minutes, and in that time have to eat lunch. Feh. Y'know, I like earning money, and I don't mind doing the work either, but I resent the incursions into my free time. Yes, i am aware that I am a ridiculous human being.
So Dave went out light-heartedly to get rid of the drifts in front of the garage (two feet high) and at the front of the house (a foot or so).
Well, the other half of the driveway was also under a two-foot drift for its entire length.
Pain in the ass. But, we persevered, and I am nicely warmed up for work now, i guess. (Ugh. Sticky. I hate exercising in the cold because you can never find a good temperature to be.)
We ate Chinese takeout and watched The Bourne Supremacy last night. It was fun; exciting movie, nice complex plot, Karl Urban looking ratty, Matt Damon's nose is really big. Hell of a car chase-- I liked all the camera work from inside the cars being struck, though I think it might have been a little more interesting had they acknowledged that there ought to have been people inside those other cars. They were trying to make the move realistic and human? Oh well. Dave hadn't seen the prequel and didn't really need to, though we might watch it at some point if we ever get bored enough.
Today I hope to get some sort of control over ch. 5. The events in it are unfolding far too abruptly, as I've shifted so much of the sequence around. i cut out a night because it was too slow-paced, but that makes everything that ensues happen rather too quickly. Curses on this 'pacing' thing.
But I am still confident in Ch. 4, which means that can go up tomorrow without a problem. Just... I'd hoped to stay 2 chapters ahead at all times in case of drastic time-crunch problems, and I haven't. I hope I can make some time this week and get things done! I have a lot to do tomorrow, though-- things that should have gotten done last wed&thu (my weekend) but didn't because I was playing with a puppy in Melrose instead. Bah. Chapter 5 needs to behave.
I have to leave for work in 45 minutes, and in that time have to eat lunch. Feh. Y'know, I like earning money, and I don't mind doing the work either, but I resent the incursions into my free time. Yes, i am aware that I am a ridiculous human being.
