monday, babbling by the bootstraps

I skipped everything important yesterday, which means I sat on my ass, pretty much the entire day.

In the early afternoon, while I still lay in bed reading a book and laura took a post-wakeup-nap, I was suppose to be at a unicycling meeting. Then, later in the afternoon, I was going to go to a post-nanowrimo party sort of thing, but I found myself looking at the clock an hour before it was going to end, still at home and wearing a bathrobe. We watched movies and played video games all night to commiserate.

My novel is not really coming along. I wrote for about an hour on Saturday, and am maybe 2000 words past 50,000 total. I promised someone that I’d be posting the final parts to the novelblog, but I haven’t bothered yet. There is still a lot to go, and I’m past the outline now, which is causing me problems. I need to spend some real time thinking about where I want this to go, and how I want it to end.

Last Friday I had lunch with Matt who he mentioned this crazy 1and1 deal where they’re giving away 3 years of free webhosting to anybody who signs up in the next 30 days or so. It sounds too good to be true, but I’ve already signed up, and their domain registration is dirt-cheap. We registered http://thankyouten.com for Nate, and he’s going be moving off livingtech as soon as everything goes through. [UPDATE: It’s already live! Less than 24 hrs after registration!]

Three years is a long ass time to give something away for free. It’s the miracle of big business, I guess. Of course, roadrunner just upped our bandwidth (at no extra cost!) and I’m getting speeds from home that rival speeds I used to get from the UofMN, which was heretofore the fastest internet connection I’d ever experienced.

I did a speed test, and I was getting 5 gigabits per second, which is theoretically in the 600K/second range, but the fastest download I’ve yet managed was approximately 400K/sec. Anyway it’s blazing fast. I should really set up that server at home. But I have to have time for that, I guess. And time is one thing I’m always short on.

Tonight I’m going to juggling again for the first time in over a month. I’m excited to work on my five off the ground, but I’ll probably spend just as much time catching up with all the people I haven’t seen in ages.