Twitter Tools (a WordPress plugin) keeps on malfunctioning and posting the days tweets with the wrong date and several hours later than they’re supposed to be posted. So I keep on having to come in & change the date, post name, etc. It’s annoying.
But at least they finally post.
November 11, 2010: Veteran’s Day; and also Day 2 of the Alaska Division of Elections count of write-in ballots in the Alaska U.S. Senate election (or, in twitterspeak, #AKSen); and also a different kind of write-in: a NaNoWriMo write-in wherein crazy “write a novel in a month” writers gather together to drink coffee… and write!
All but one of the rest of the tweets are from the NaNoWriMo write-in, where I kicked some serious butt.
Today was the first day of counting write-in ballots in the Alaska U.S. Senate race, which is now (Scott McAdams having conceded) between incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowki, the write-in candidate, and Sarah Palin’s favorite Joe Miller.
Meantime, we’ve been hearing plenty about this Sunday’s premiere of Palin’s [un][sur]reality show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”. The above screenshot is from the Washington Post‘s review of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”, which included an embedded of Alaskans’ Twitter tweets about the (un)reality show.
And there I am, and there’s the first few words of my tweet, the full test of which is included in the title of today’s post.
The day’s tweets:
Here’s a photo (taken February 4, 2010) of the fata morgana referred to in the post linked a few tweets up:
This was taken from the taller of two Denali Towers in midtown Anchorage, showing downtown Anchorage with Mt. Foraker (left), Denali (middle), & fata morgana (right) in the background. Fata morgana are optical illusions particularly common in polar or other cold regions: there really aren’t really any mountains north of Denali visible from Anchorage, except with fata morgana.
[On Facebook, a friend commented, “I blame it on the CSLF. The ‘Comic Sans Liberation Front.”
To which I replied, “Or the MSSFAOSSFINHOB. The Microsoft Society for the Advancement of Some Stupid Font I Never Heard of Before.”]
This was a “First snow at UAA” photo I took on October 26, 2006. Four years & change ago; but it’s much as the UAA/APU Consortium Library will look every morning on my way to work from here on out, until breakup next April or May.
(Except I won’t be going to work every morning in December. I’ll be in Australia, sweating. Heh.)
Here’s the day’s tweets:
Winter is finally acting like winter in Anchorage: we got a decent dump of snow overnight & this morning. What better proof of that than that almost everybody was late to work this morning?
Or, better yet, with a couple of pics? I took these during my lunchtime while I nuked my lunch into warm edibility.
The pic above is a People Mover bus as seen through a corner of the UAA/APU Consortium Library as seen from my office in another part of the Consortium Library. The green plants are inside the library. The ones with snow on them are not. And there are reflections. I think it looks pretty cool. Or cold. But it might be confusing to some eyes.
This view is a little more straightforward. Or queerbackward. Whatever. Anyway, it doesn’t mix the eye up as much. It’s just as cold, but not as cool.
Happy winter, Anchorage!
Saturdays are writing days for me. But in November, every day’s a writing day, thanks to NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month. We’re now a week into NaNovember, as I call it, & I started it way behind.
But by the end of the day, with another 7,500 words written, I was ahead of the game.
I started at Side Street Espresso, my favorite writing venue.
When Side Street closed at 3:00, we moved over to the downtown Kaladi Brothers in the corner of the PAC.
(Don’t worry, downtown coffee drinkers: Kaladi eventually got its key back.)
I finished my writing day at home.
I got fed up with my old template, so I’m changing it. If you’ve got respiratory issues, you might want to wear a mask, because I’m gonna be kicking up some dust around here.
But right now: I’m off to NaNoWriMo writing. I’d better write a lot, I’m way behind!
