On the couch

Freewrite is keeping track of my Alpha wordcount. Creepy?

Sitting here on the couch with my furry boy Griffey, chewing granola (Mrs. R's homemade) and cream. It's dim and foggy out the big windows. Yesterday the low clouds never lifted, and we didn't get out on the Pisgah hike we'd contemplated earlier. However, we were able to prod our feet out our deck door and up the hill to the stairs leading to the Wayne Morse Family Farm city park and get maybe 3500 steps on the lovely wooded paths up there and through the neighborhood back to our place. Not much, but it was something—so we didn't feel like utter sloths.

The new owners of our old house have arrived in town for several days of spiffing up. Not sure what all they're going to do. Probably at least some interior painting, but there's a lot of other things that need to be done. The husband has a lot of experience working on old homes, so they're in a much better position than we would be to improve things quickly. They live in Southern California, but the wife grew up here in Eugene and still has family in the area. She has wanted a house in Eugene for a long time. At some point in the next few days, we're meeting them for a champagne toast (I'll have fizzy water) to celebrate their new place, our new place, and big new phases for all of us.

Okay, this is a bit geeky, but starting with this blog, and continuing if it works out, I'm going to try writing in old-school HTML because I'm tired of Blogger putting scads of formatting code in my entries and me not feeling like I'm in control. I know enough basic HTML, so this should work. My original blog that I started in 1999 was a roll-yer-own seat-of-the-pants project, and very fun. Sometime in 2007, though, I got tired of doing all the formatting myself and switched to Wordpress for blogging. Last year I made the switch to Blogger because its owner Google allows unlimited uploading of photos, and photos are rendered better. Blogger can automatically format entries, but it also has an option for writing HTML. You might see some minor changes, such as double-spaces instead of indents (which are not super simple in HTML if I want to keep the code clean), but otherwise it will be all under the hood. End of geeky section.

Wow, the fog has gotten even thicker out there. The normally bright windows of Market of Choice are invisible (a block or so away, down the hill). Okay. Well, nothing else is surfacing in my brain to blog about. Except: my NaNoWriMo challenge is going well; we have Swarm coming up on Sunday; RFR is not attracting me lately; and I'm still quite happy with my Freewrite Alpha (typing on it now). There. Have a nice day!