Movin' along.

H'okay, this time I promise this wont be too long, as their really isn't a heck of a lot to talk about. STILL! Enough for a post. So here we go!

Work continues to roll along. Today I helped a new employee move into his home out near the Riviera. I've never actually been over on that side of the lake (that I can remember), and daaang, I out to drive randomly out there more often. It's beautiful! Based on the houses, likely fairly rich too. Bleh. Anyway, I should climb a hill up there and have a picnic or something. WHOSE COMIN' WITH ME?! C'mon!
Also, Terry, a woman I work with who was hired at the same time as me, picked out a couple of books from the big (you should see it, it's ridiculous) pile she was sorting through and recommended them to me. See, I think that she and I kind of got off to a mediocre start when we were hired, since she was a laid-off nurse with many years of excellent experience and a serious, get-things-done attitude, and I was a fresh-out-of-college guy with no retail experience who generally tended to knock over precarious stacks of donated goods. But that wasn't the bad start so much as just how dang often I tend to do something goofy when I work around her. Just one of those things, you know? Like forget a piece of something, or miss something obvious, or knock something over. Why are the hangers always at my head level?! Anyway, while we generally get along, I thought it was a really nice thing for her to do. The books are The Hidden Messages in Water and The True Power of Water, both by Masaru Emoto. I haven't picked them up yet, but I'm looking forward to it!

The story is moving along, albeit slower now. I've finished the first chapter (draft!), and, after fiddling about with a few false starts, decided to change tactics a bit. I'm now writing an outline to it all, basically a quick prompt to each chapter. I've gotten about five more chapters planned out this way, and it's really helped my codify the story better. I've had all these great ideas about things, and this has been a good way to keep up the enthusiasm while I muck through all of the necessary bits to get to them. Also, on that note, I've got a question for y'all. Would you prefer it that I keep giving you bits of the story and plot as I work on them, or would you prefer me to wait and keep it mostly a secret until a chunk of it is done enough that rereading it doesn't make me facepalm at what I was thinking? I LEAVE IT TO YOU!

On the RPG front, I didn't feel confident to try the accent yet, but I DID give my character a ridiculous awesome mustache, so...yeah. Victory, I think!

Wow. Lots of caps lock this time. Better stop before it gets WOOORSE OH NOOOO--