Chet’s Chatter

Smiling Panda

Posted on 30 November 2005 @ 13:57 in Stress Busters

That’s Su Lin, giving a nice smile for the camera during her 15th examination on 23 November.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Posted on 29 November 2005 @ 22:00 in Friends, Pictures

ManchesterAnne sent me this picture of the scene in her garden:

It brought to mind my first winter in Norwich 1986:

And then there was this picture Beth sent me of snow in Turners Falls, MA, in March 2001:

I don’t even understand the language!

Posted on 26 November 2005 @ 08:46 in Food, Fun Stuff

I got this off YP’s blog, and really laughed out loud when I read my results:

You Are French Food

Snobby yet ubiquitous.
People act like they understand you more than they actually do.

What Kind of Food Are You?

The green and the purple of NaNoWriMo

Posted on 26 November 2005 @ 07:17 in Writing

From this:

To this:

The green bar appears when a participant passes the 50,000-word count and updates it on their profile at the NaNoWriMo site.

The purple bar appears after the word count is validated by the NaNoWriMo site’s word count validator.

I’d written all my 2005 NaNovel on my AlphaSmart Dana, saving each day’s writing as an individual file. I’d then uploaded and combined all the individual files in RoughDraft on my desktop computer. Both my Dana and RoughDraft counted the same number of words in my 2005 NaNovel - 50,337. NaNoWriMo’s word count validator counted it at 50,625, which is 288 words more than what my Dana and RoughDraft counted.

Here’s my 2005 NaNoWriMo certificate: