A Non-Food Post - A Tangential Matter

Sundays are beautiful, glorious days of the week. A time for leisure and work, the promise of success and fortune lie right at Sunday's feet.

Anyway, it's almost November. And you know what that means!

Or...maybe you don't?

NaNoWriMo!!! Wheeeee! One month of craziness, scaryashell laughs and fist pounds as me and millions of other writers across the planet try to pound out 50,000 words of unadulterated crap in 30 days.

As if I don't have enough to do. I know. But as Andy Dufresne (played by Tim Robbins) says in The Shawshank Redemption, Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

That's about damn right.

I'm on year five, and I've won all previous years (winning = hitting 50k+), so I expect this year to be the same, except...

my genre of choice this year is "Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense", which sounds great, but a.) I've never written a mystery before, and b.) I don't read a lot of mysteries.

But hey, I'm not going to get bogged down in the details.

I'm writing what's called a "cozy" mystery...very little violence (graphic, anyway), a little romance, a lot of funniness, small town setting and characters, amateur sleuth. And - it's taking place mostly at a community college...in a Culinary Arts program...most of the book's characters are culinary students or chefs/bakers.

Write what you know, people, write what you know. And that's what I know. For right now, anyway.

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Go Placidly

My food truck business started back up this past weekend, and from here until November, the weeks will be packed. Sandwich-slinging Thursday-Saturday and bartending work Monday-Wednesday. And Sunday, I guess, is the day to sleep in and hide in my house. Hiding out is the one thing I feel like doing a lot of these days. My food truck's ReOpening wasn't the only thing happening in my hometown this weekend past. A 13-year-old boy was accidentally shot and killed on Saturday and then yesterday, the police department busted one of the biggest meth labs in a long time. Both are tragic...one is a sad loss, one that will devastate a loving family for the rest of their lives. One is tragic only because of the profound stupidity/ignorance/addiction of a few people who happen to be living in a town mostly filled with good-hearted, hard-working people. And if it's not drama at the local level, then there's the constant bombardment of news that seems to be vividly...

From Government Regulations to Chicken

So, I really wanted tonight's post to be whippy and biting and highly intelligent...and I've even got the perfect topic - government wine regulations: Europe vs. the US (subtitle: European Governments Seem to Trust Their Citizens A Whole Lot More The US, Otherwise Why Don't French, et al., Wine Labels Have the Surgeon General's "Pregnant Women Should Not Drink This/This Beverage Impairs Your Brain" Warning). But, I realized that to begin a post like that, I should probably know the answer to the question, yes? Why do American wine labels include the warning, when, I don't know, isn't just common sense? A quick search of this very query lands me at Wikipedia, which is good enough for a rude overview, but nothing that indicates why it's a law in the first place. Hence, more reading is required. I hope to get to it soon. It's almost August, two-thirds of this year is nearly gone, and sometimes I feel as I am moving very, very quickly along...

A Burst Bubble (Sort Of...)

My first class of the day starts at 7 a.m. I have a half-hour drive to school. I leave my house around 6:15 a.m. I wake up at 5:30 a.m., shower, get dressed, complete my morning toilette, and get my school materials together. Guess what I don't usually have time for? A sit-down breakfast. Enter this essential item right here: I won't ever skip breakfast. I just won't do it. There are some things I believe to be sacred. But, because of time constraints, I'm obligated to take my breakfast on the road. In a sippy glass. It's not a SlimFast shake. It's not water. It's not orange juice. It's not chocolate milk. It's a homemade veggie-fruit smoothie. And I love them. By the time I arrive to school, my glass is empty, and I'm totally full. And, I've had a good whopping serving of my fruit and veg for the day. However, with every good thing, it needs to be evaluated from time to time....

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