November 2008
Item No. 75
Written on Sunday, November 30, 2008
Final official count: 27,591. Not quite the 30,000 I said I would aim for, and not even close to the initial 50,000 word goal, but whatever. As I've been saying, that's 27,591 more words than I had 30 days ago. I've gained some insight on my characters and definitely have ...
Item No. 74
Written on Saturday, November 29, 2008
There were a lotta good deals yesterday, and I wasn't even planning on buying anything. Good ol' lazy me did the online route. iPod touches, hard drive enclosures, terabytes of storage for my pirated HD movies, so many things I could buy! So what do I do instead? Donate money ...
Item No. 73
Written on Friday, November 28, 2008
The power went out last night. I tried to find a wi-fi signal but couldn't connect to anything, although I am thoroughly impressed with the Macbook's reception. Luckily I had Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's, so it wasn't until after we got back that we saw the neighborhood was completely ...
Item No. 72
Written on Wednesday, November 26, 2008
I went to the doctor this morning and got blood taken out. I'm a bit worried to see my cholesterol results, although I imagine it won't deter me from pigging out over Thanksgiving. Tentatively there is a Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow night, then a celebrate my cousin passing the bar dinner ...
Item No. 71
Written on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
It's been about five days since I've done any writing, and the upcoming holiday weekend is not going to help. My goal now is to hit 25k, since I believe I am about 1500 words short of that goal. A far cry from 50k, but 25,000 words is 25,000 more ...
Item No. 70
Written on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Holy crap. Gears of war 2. Horde mode. Played too long forgot to post blog. Must. Play. More.
Item No. 69
Written on Sunday, November 23, 2008
My parents and brother came back from China on Saturday. Apparently the prices on clothing and other merchandise have almost doubled from the last time they went about a year ago. I'm curious to know if that's an indicator of how the economy in China is doing or something else. On ...
Item No. 68
Written on Saturday, November 22, 2008
A more dishonest version of myself would backdate this post and pretend I remembered to write a blog entry for November 21st. But I'll get my ticket punched and board the fail train once again. I expect to board it one more time on November 30th because I am now ...
Item No. 67
Written on Thursday, November 20, 2008
My cousin sent me a link to this. I told her I had already seen it, and this was her reply: you've seen everything. EVERYTHING. its like you ARE the internet. I'm pleased to announce that I have achieved my goal in life. I have become what I loved. In other news, ...
Item No. 66
Written on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Off we go to play in the semi-final match of kickball. We're down one of our top players tonight so I'm doubtful we'll be winning this match. If by some crazy chance we do win though, immediately afterward is the final match. I would tell everyone to hope for the ...
Item No. 65
Written on Tuesday, November 18, 2008
My word count progress has vastly slowed over the last two sessions, although on the upside I'm getting a better feel for my characters, and may have some of their arcs resolved. Is this better than just pumping out words? I'm going to say yes just to raise my morale. ...
Item No. 64
Written on Monday, November 17, 2008
The new Star Trek trailer is up on Apple's site. Looks kinda cool. Lots of action and fancy shots of ships in space. A warning not to go to the Wikipedia page cause it's full of spoilers, although who knows if they're really spoilers or not. I just prefer ...
Item No. 63
Written on Sunday, November 16, 2008
This is incredibly painful. I sit there in the coffee shop with my laptop before me, pretty much daydreaming and trying to figure out what this scene I'm writing is supposed to accomplish and where it's supposed to go. Usually by the time the first hour is up I'll check ...
Item No. 62
Written on Saturday, November 15, 2008
I went to a new Mexican restaurant I found on Yelp for lunch today, and out in front a woman was selling bootleg DVDs. I couldn't believe it. Granted it's Santa Ana, but the area wasn't a particularly bad one and it was just a shock seeing as how ...
Item No. WordPress 2.7 Beta 3
Written on Saturday, November 15, 2008
WordPress 2.7 Beta 3 has been released for your testing pleasure. Here are some of the changes since Beta 2 (over 160 changes in total): Numerous style improvements and refinements. All admin notices now go under the page title. PHP Notice fixes. Dashboard widget options now properly save. Menu fixes. New design for Quick Edit. Canonical ...
Item No. 61
Written on Friday, November 14, 2008
Around the corner from my apartment is a Japanese fast food restaurant called Sushi Box. I do not go there for their sushi, and I would not recommend anyone go there for their sushi. I go there for their $3.90 chicken bowl ($4.20 after tax). This is a very ...
Item No. 60
Written on Thursday, November 13, 2008
I will be going to watch Bond, James Bond at midnight tonight. I really enjoyed Casino Royale and was glad that the movie was a lot more serious compared to previous over-the-top Bond fare. I've been hearing that Quantum of Solace is even better, but have yet to read any ...
Item No. 59
Written on Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The quarterfinal kickball matches are tonight, although I can't be entirely sure because I didn't get an e-mail from the kickball coordinator. Last week ABC news was supposed to come out and do a piece on kickball but they couldn't make it, and plus there's usually a weekly kickball newsletter ...
Item No. 58
Written on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I stole my neighbor's cat again. He's very friendly and seems to be comfortable in my place. I'm not really sure why. I don't mind that he hangs out, but I'm just a tad worried that he's gonna poop or pee all over the place or scratch up my furniture. ...
Item No. 57
Written on Monday, November 10, 2008
Spam e-mail subject line of the day: Become a Nurse ERIC! I got Gears of War 2 over the weekend. Probably a mistake cause I'm going to want to play instead of write, but it's worth it. Co-op campaign is where it's at, and it's great with the headset. I think ...
Item No. 56
Written on Sunday, November 9, 2008
Ever since I've been doing my own laundry, I have always washed all my clothes as one big load. Red shirts, blue jeans, white socks, all together at the same time, and I have never had an issue with colors running together. The socks are still white as are any ...
Item No. 55
Written on Saturday, November 8, 2008
Today was painful. It took me three hours to hit my word count. The hardest part was that I didn't know where to go with my story or plot. The previous day I had sort of written myself into a hole and I didn't want to go that route any ...
Item No. 54
Written on Friday, November 7, 2008
I'm just pulling stuff out of thin air for this novel. I'm still on track, and I'm finding that 1667 words is pretty much about two hours for me. Naturally I could sit there and just hammer out gibberish, but I think my own sense of pride won't let me ...
Item No. 53
Written on Thursday, November 6, 2008
I would think it's a sad time when you find yourself rushing home to post a blog entry so you can say you successfully participated in National Blog Posting Month. But I did it. So suck it. So I forgot to write an entry before I went to the coffee shop ...
Item No. 51
Written on Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Well, I think we just had an election. It's slightly unbelievable to me that Obama really won. I just hope that he was doing this on the way to Grant Park. I love that the news cut to people in New York celebrating, and the reporter decided to talk to ...
Item No. 50
Written on Monday, November 3, 2008
Ha. I almost forgot I needed a blog post for today. I was just gonna come home and steam some dumplings (I'm so damn Chinese) and then head out to write, and I imagine halfway through my writing I would go, "Oh no! NaBloPoMo!" and then I would spend about ...
Item No. 49
Written on Sunday, November 2, 2008
I woke up at 6:30 today. Not because I forgot about the time change, but to see if I write better in the mornings. Amongst all the research I've done into writing, the one rule that comes up a lot is to set aside a certain time of day for ...
Item No. 48
Written on Saturday, November 1, 2008
Well, my first day of NaNoWriMo was painful, but not as painful as I thought it would be. Although right now at this very moment I'm frustrated that the stupid official NaNoWriMo word validator doesn't work in Chrome or Firefox, and it doesn't help that the site is loading super ...
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Eric Lim works as a front-end developer in Orange County, California and spends his time squandering his potential.
In his spare time he surfs the internets, pirates music and movies, pets strange kitties, and makes a big mess when he eats. He also tends to say things that make no sense because he doesn't really listen to himself when he talks.