School is out for a few weeks. I will be back on June 7th for summer classes. I am just trying to get done with school as quickly as I can. I worked a few extra shifts and bought myself a Yamaha keyboard. When I was young, first grade or so, I took a few piano lessons but never followed. When I was in high school I picked up playing guitar but could only read tabs. I have always wanted to go back to piano especially when I got rid of my guitar because my hands and fingers were just to big to play it. So I now have beside me my keyboard that I have spend easily 6 hours a day on since I got it last Tuesday. I feel through my writing I am only able to be so creative and would like to express myself through music as well. In no way have I forgot about my writing, I am keeping good journals as I begin playing and making progress. I find myself not knowing where the time has gone when I look up. I bought a piano lesson DVD set on sale called Learn and Master Piano and they are simply amazing. I have never been so excited about sheet music and learning chords and don't want to miss anything.

My time seems to be just so taken up lately which I am not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I haven't had a chance to update and felt that I am far over due. Yesterday I was sitting at the bar at Applebees and was talking with this seventy year old amazingly cool guy that worked for the Houston Chronicle, our Houston newspaper. He was talking to me about how much he doesn't understand the workforce and how it is almost impossible to hold a job for a long time. He had worked for the Chronicle for 40 years. I told him that I have a great time writing with my Olympia SG1 and my Selectrics, he chuckled and told me about how that's all there was when he started. We both agreed that the society that we live in is to fasted paced and probably almost everything in newspapers is someones edited first draft. I told him how a typewriter forces you to do at least a second draft before it's all just editing. He thought it was funny how someone doing HVAC Refrigeration was also a writer but said anything is possible if you are interested in what you are doing.

The Terra Cotta Warriors

Looks dangerous but its actually pretty sturdy.

(Duffy, its possible)

Alright I had no choice.  There is just not enough room for anything besides a typewriter stand or something equivalent.  My wife has the boxes filled with her stuff on each side and right behind the chair is the foot of the bed.  I am still on a hunt for one but in the mean time I found a little dinner table thing.  It works for now.  It was only 8 bucks at Walmart and I figured if it will help me for now then it's worth it.  It actually holds a Selectric just fine.  Its got a a pretty thick piece of wood on top and can support what I need so it's good.  Even using my SM9 and returning the carriage doesn't wobble it to much.  I am checking craigslist all the time and hopefully something will come up.  

I have been going on JuST Write and kind of switch it up hear and there.  I do find though lately I am making more and more excuses of things I need to do before I can sit down and write.  I got a bunch of books at the library and have been trying to balance everything out.  I rarely watch tv so it's really a dispute between writing, reading and going on the computer and everything else.  I feel as though I have a time limit on the books, I keep telling my self if I need more time I can just check them out again.  Does anyone have Fowlers modern english usage next to their work place?  I need to get that book.  

Thats the only one allowed to have your pic taken with.

The real ones are much bigger and taller.  Life Size

Yesterday I went to the Houston Museum Of Natural Science.  It was awesome.  We went and saw the Terra Cotta Warriors.  They were amazing, such detail went in to each soldier.  It really made me think of how at any time something could happen to us and what would be rediscovered thousands of years later.  I bet it wouldn't be as amazing as the Terra Cotta Warriors though.  

Also don't you all wish you could have a clock this big?  It isn't mechanical but it certainly isn't run by some microchip.  This thing was big.  If only I knew how to tell time on it.  

Holy Crap I JuST Need a Desk

I have been trying to keep up with Mike and the JuST WriMo here but my lack of desk is killing me. I have been still able to keep up my word count. Yesterday I needed a day to re-coop though. It drives me crazy sometimes knowing what you want to write in your head but fear the actual starting where you left off. Usually to overcome that I leave off at a part where I know I can pick right back up. Sometimes mid sentence. That way I have an easier time getting started again the next day. It leaves me with time to think and inspiration to keep chugging along. There is usually less of a chance for writers block the next day as well. I just now need to figure out the desk/table situation. After moving across the country I am left with little to no money and desk-less. I am wondering if a Walmart has a little Tv dinner table or something like that for cheap. My poor SM9 is hiding under the bed right now wondering what is going on. Fortunately the height of the Selectrics keys are just right. But because of it the SM9 has seen less use lately. Its keys are lower and I feel after ten minutes of writing like my wrist is going to fall off. But either way I look at it is a painful process. Sitting on the floor for a prolong period of times does a number on your hips. I am young and can handle it but damn. I should probably get back to work. No more slackin and seeing if there are any blog updates. I have almost 25 pages to my left of this story and need to make that pile a little bigger. What do ya say

Typecast: Move to Houston

Sorry I don't have a scanner out here yet but I plan to get one in the near future. 

Using my 10MP digital for now I guess