Today was another free day for everyone but Mom and Dad, who were set to go jetskiing. Unfortunately, the bus never showed up to take them to Seven Mile Beach and the jetski package they had purchased; instead, the tour group gave them access to the jetskis at our resort, meaning that I must have seen them jetting back and forth while playing on ( Read more... )

Day two at the Hotel Riu Palace Tropical Bay. I think everyone's in agreement that, as far as the accommodations go, this place isn't up to the Dreams Playa del Carmen or Dreams Punta Cana. God, how patrician does that sound, complaining about all-inclusive luxury resorts? Then again, I suppose when someone is putting out as much money as Mom and ( Read more... )

Would it be one of the family tropical vacations if nothing went wrong ( Read more... )

I made it home without hitting a deer or having a dead battery or putting pure ethanol in the tank. That makes it my only successful round trip to Michigan thus far, amazingly. By making it safely to my hotel the first night, I was already ahead of New Year 2012. When the car started this morning, I surpassed New Year 2011 too. Some have said 2013 ( Read more... )

My original plan to do a journal entry every day of my vacation quickly fell by the wayside after I got sick. Which was after I changed a diaper but before I pushed a car out of a frozen driveway but before I gave out free robots and after the suppository incident ( Read more... )

Yes, I got home safely from Thanksgiving and was neither forced to endure a harrowing plane crash nor feast on copilot. It was a fabulous weekend of feasting, family, and fun with a little capitalism thrown in to taste. Getting home at 1:30am with work the next morning (and every morning thereafter) tends to put a dent in updating, after all ( Read more... )

I'm within spitting distance of 40,000 words, 15 days in. Granted there won't be much novel-ing over the holiday break, but I'm still ridiculously ahead. Oddly, the lion's share of that aheadedness has come from the weekend coffee shop write-ins. I've sat down almost every night to write, but have found it enormously difficult to squeeze out the ( Read more... )

Well, it turns out my predictions were correct. As always, it's not enough to have someone that's not the incumbent, but someone who's also got a lot going for themselves. It was no easy feat losing the election, but they pulled it off. I voted nonetheless; it always seems a little hollow when they guy you vote for loses, naturally (I suppose that' ( Read more... )

I'm unusually depressed at the moment. Perhaps it's the combination of a Monday and the damn election tomorrow, along with all the other random things that have been weighing on me. But I've felt off all day and the ruckus tomorrow sure isn't going to help ( Read more... )

Now that November has begun, I suppose it's time for a National Novel Writing Month post, huh ( Read more... )