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NaNo Recovery

 

Last night I met up with a teacher friend who was writing a final for her high school students at Denney’s, a local diner.  This was my first public writing effort since November 30th.  I love the National Novel Writing Month each November.  I’m a technical writer and edit as I write. This is great for work but bogs down the novel writing efforts to a crawl.  NaNo has really helped me to “turn off my inner editor” and make real headway on my projects.

The Christmas season is upon us with a whirl of regulatory deadlines, school events and parties.  Last night may be my only effort squeezed into December as the overtime ramps up.  January will be here soon enough and my fellow NaNo’s (or WriMo’s) want to get together for a regular, more casual, event.

Today, I am adding new external links on my employer’s safety website and came across this from the America’s PreparAthon website.  (FEMA) It is my response to the statement I often get from people I fail to understand, “Why would you want to get involved?”

The answer:  https://youtu.be/qBrMU0sLoHQ

http://community.fema.gov/

Keep America strong!

Love those around you and Stay Safe out there!

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Note to Self: Wear Gloves!

This post from May 10th got lost in the draft bin but I thought it was useful so here it is!

Sorry for the delay in posts.  My truck has a new battery, my new swarm has a new hive box and home and are very happy.  In the process of relocating the bees to the stand at 10:30 p.m., I noticed some leaves had blown around the legs of the stand.  I reached down and swept them away and as I did so I thought to self, self you really should be wearing gloves for this, it’s awfully dark.  Ouch!  Was that a stick that poked me? 

No it wasn’t a stick, my biology friend went through the entomology of insects with me and determined I had been bitten by a Jumping Spider, technically non-venomous.  Side effects included a right hand the size of a boxing glove, headaches, muscle pain, nausea and last blackish swollen feet.

I did not have a bull’s eye wound, no oozing, no tracing and the swelling went down nicely.  I guess I should count myself lucky that it wasn’t something really nasty.  Still a little bloaty but all the other symptoms are gone, gone, gone.

Did you ever do something and as you were doing it thought to yourself, I shouldn’t be doing this?

More time to read!

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