Today it is four months since we got the keys to this house and started moving our stuff across town from our old place. We began living here on August 21. Our old house, where we lived for 35 years, sold on October 30. This week, finally, suddenly, I noticed that this house has started feeling "normal" to me: it no longer seems strange and new and exotic. I'm used to it. I mean, it's still an amazing house, and definitely fancier than the old place. But familiarity and new habits are taking hold, and it feels good!
Let's see, in other news. Between today and yesterday I transmitted about eleven hours of Radio Free Random, with good listeners and fun chat. I'm glad I didn't dismantle the station like I was thinking of doing last week. A die roll dissuaded me, luckily. Go to radionot.wordpress.com to catch up on the recordings and tracklists, should you so desire.
I successfully finished my personal NaNoWriMo challenge, logging just over 50,000 written words by the end of November. That feels incredibly satisfying. My Freewrite machines, the Alpha and especially the Traveler, proved very worthy in helping me to complete the task, and I'm glad I spent good gadget fund money to acquire them. The "nonsense" novel project continues. Perhaps "nonsense" isn't quite the right word. "Psychedelic" and "experimental" could also work. But I like saying nonsense. It's provocative and not wrong. But we're not talking gibberish. There is a kind of neural glue that keeps the words from completely flying apart.
I am quickly becoming a Wes Anderson fan. He's a contemporary movie director with a, shall we say, "quirky" vision and style. I've watched Asteroid City three times and it's totally on my all-time list of great films. And last night I saw that The Phoenician Scheme is now free to watch on Prime, so I watched it. And I loved it. Like Asteroid City it's packed with meta-weirdness and stylized dialog and I guess what you could call a certain smart campiness...? Whatever it is, I really dig Anderson's style, at least in those two movies. I am going to eventually catch up with his entire ouvre.
Maybe that's it for this blog entry. Yes. Later, 'gators.