I might get this one done *before* the end of the month.

"Remembering Light"



I had about 700-800 of that already, from some work about a week ago; the rest is new. And this is, in fact, a new Driftwood story. I'm having fun riffing off the random idea I came up with for the world this one centers on, extrapolating the consequences of it. Yay for putting sunlight at the heart of a story.

Probably could finish this in two more days -- possibly one -- I just need to figure out how to steer the characters to the idea that got this story rolling in the first place. And decide whether I'm trying to stick that extra strand in there or not.

Excitement! Of a furnishings sort!

This is what a thousand bucks looks like:



Which, by my standards, is a grotesque amount of money to spend on a chair. But I'm trying to think of it less as "a chair," more as "an investment in the future of my musculo-skeletal system." (And probably some nerves, too.) Good office chairs are 'spensive, and good office chairs with cervical support? I'm lucky the one I liked best turned out to be the cheapest one I was looking at.

I need to take care of my health, and that means putting an end to this chronic shoulder tension and increasing problem with lumbar stiffness. I should have made a purchase like this years ago, honestly -- it isn't like grad school doesn't involve equally large amounts of time at the computer -- but it was the full-time writer thing that made me finally bite the bullet. No more cheap chairs scrounged from used furniture stores. This is new, and well-made, and about the only thing it doesn't do is give me a massage while I work*.

And man, you know you're kind of a geek about your work life when the purchase of a new office chair is a really exciting event. <g>


*Though I do have one of those Homedics pads.