Recent Entries
- Looking for Soloist or small group to perform at Mama Hillybeans on Valentines Nite.
- CrossRoads welcomes guest artists
- Poetry -- Haiku -- Memories
- All The Old Cowboys
- A great night at hillybeans
- Upcoming Tehachapi Happenings
- Oliver! Comes to the BeeKay
- New Grants for BeeKay
- A New Year’s greeting!
- January Events At Picture Perfect & Stamps
Recent comments
- There should be a lot of
17 hours 12 min ago - I found this picture of
1 day 8 hours ago - Yahoooo! Good ol country.
1 day 19 hours ago - I could hear this song
2 days 13 hours ago - Good time
2 days 14 hours ago - I like when Debbie and Peter
2 days 17 hours ago - Thanks.
2 days 23 hours ago - Bakersfield Newspaper
3 days 8 hours ago - Bakersfield Newspaper, they
3 days 9 hours ago - Most of us know Mainstreet
3 days 9 hours ago
NaNoWriMo Update
Just to let folks know. I hit 23,393 words tonight. Which puts me two days behind. But I'm keeping up, and I hope I'll be all caught up by next weekend. Then the long Thanksgiving weekend will be the home stretch
.
- mathnerde's blog
- 135 reads
Comments
Right on Math.... I know you
Right on Math.... I know you can do it.
We're Mighty Proud of You!
I have no idea as to about how many pages 23,393 + is? What a challenge! Keep on pluggin away! (I know when I am filling out the form complaining about something to ebay, they only give you 1000 words to do so. I always get that reject window that won't let me send, explaining that I have exceeded the word limit! I am such a world class kvetcher! )
I wish
I had as many words trying to burst out of me as you seem to have Terri. (And they always seem to come out so well. Sigh.) But you know me, I don't have much to say. I've got to ramble to get all the words out. Hmm. I need to figure out how to include these words into my novel. Or is that too recursive? I'm about to the send the narrator out on another road trip.
But if you'd like to help, give me some ideas of what I can do with a mysterious woman named Mariah, who has some kind of Australian herding dog. She seems to be my "plot bunny" if she get's interesting enough she might be able to save the life of another one of the characters. She also plays the djembe and sings.
Dog...
How about part Dingo? Hmm... did I read somewhere that they are not very trainable?
Hey... I know I talk a lot, and I know that I am not a word person by any stretch! Most conversations to me are like the feeling of grasping for that brass ring, believe it or not! I hope I grab it, sometime. And writing ...if you only knew how hard it is for me to to write, anything!!! (Or, were you just yanking my chain???)
And speaking of recursive... that is the trick of sounding like you have a lot to say... just say it differently each time. Come live with me and Izzy, my dad. Everything has got to be said many times, partially because he is hard of hearing, and partially because he just doesn't listen! I am use to assuming that I am not heard, whether or not I really gots me something to say.
Send your character out to my old neighborhood in North Hollywood, oh, back about 20 years... I think the area is now endearingly called "No Ho" these days. When I lived there it shoulda been called "Yes Ho," and all the girls with the heels that went clickidy-clack lived right next door to my little place! (I lived in a one bedroom bungalow, along an alley, behind a Swedish smorgasbord, that use to serve polish food, and was owned by a Lebanese man named Karnack! ...I don't make this stuff up!)
That reminds me
I had a plan to have a nude woman show up during a chapter... Now I have to figure out when. Maybe when my MC (Main character) gets back from his current trip into the desert.
Right now, the poor guy is taking a guy writing a guidebook to the Mojave Desert out to various sites. I wrote 1000 words on the Burro Schmidt Mine. Now I need to send them someplace else. Maybe Ballarat, by way of Trona then over into Death Valley. Man that sounds dull. (to read that is, that is how I spend a lot of my weekends so I enjoy doing it.)
24,404
Not enough for a new post. So I'm just 2.5 days behind. And I'll hit the halfway point tomorrow. I may read another chapter for the Writer's Read tomorrow night after the Writer's Workshop. And somewhere find another 1000 words tomorrow.
Now you went and dun it!
I had to Google Ballarat ...and now I know all. Boy thanks to Manson did our friend Rock Novak have his 15 minutes or what?
Speaking of Rock, the Tehachapi Gem and Mineral Society will have a Rock Hunt out near Kramer Junction this Saturday. Last Feb or Mar went on the last hunt they had there, and I brought our friend Maria (from Grace Angel Band). She googled for the area's rocks and found that there was agate to be found, but more interesting to me was a note about black opal... that's what got me to go! Well, we got out there and found tons and tons of red agate, and I forget what else, but no black opal. One of the guys did show me a small piece that he found, but that was from a trip he made there a week before, and further out. It was very hard to find anything as we were being battered by excessively strong winds.
If anyone wants to go on a this rock hunt, or wants to join their club, let me know and I will get you more info.
I had to go google Rock
I new that "infamy" was close to Ballarat, but I didn't realize how close. I've been there a few times and all I saw was the desert forgetting. Mine one published poem was about that area.
I'd have liked to go on the rock expedition but I've got this thing I'm working on. Can't afford to lose a day at this point.
Math, I like the icon up
Math, I like the icon up there... My muse can beat up your muse.... LMAO too funny.
Terri I found a large piece of red agate up by the Buddhist Temple, by the time I got it back to the jeep...I was huffing and puffing .. I thought I wouldn't make it. I use it as a door stop.
I love rocks, I have picked up hundreds of rocks in the last 3 years here in the canyon. I use them to make waterfalls, streams and decorate the landscape on my property.
I know what agate and the reddish lava rocks are, but what are the green rocks and the black rocks? Do you or Math know?
How close to Horse Canyon are you?
There exists a stone, what is now considered to be sort of legendary, that hails from Sand Canyon area, specifically Horse Canyon. To my knowledge this agate is a moss agate with mostly mossy greenish inclusions. Supposedly most of the rocks to be found on the surface have already been all gleaned. If there is any left it is either underground or most likely now on private property. I think the area used to be BLM so access was easier for the public. (I could be wrong about this.) If a property owner wants to invite rock hounds onto their property to have a look-see they could get in touch with the local rock club and arrange a field trip.
What I know of rocks I have learned thru osmosis. My folks have been lapidary hounds for at least 40 years. My dad still is. The Mojave dessert and surrounding areas is a source of a lot of it. There are pockets of different kinds of fascinating rocks all over the world, and some from very small one of a kind veins. I guess that is one aspect that makes them semi precious.
[harrassment] How many
[harrassment] How many calories are in the "Mojave dessert"? Sounds tasty. [/harrasment]
Correction...
...and not to math's delectable comment about the after meal's sugary consumption of choice (I don't think I will ever spell desert correctly in proper context)...
Correction to my other post: Apparently Horse Canyon Agate comes in mossy colors other than green. It also is marked with swirls of reds, yellows, browns, whites and clear. Here are examples of some slabs and cabs:
http://www.greatslabs.com/slabs_agate-horse-canyon.shtml
http://www.samsilverhawk.com/21cabs/horse_canyon_agate.html
Sparks, if you have any of this stuff in your yard bring it on over and let Izzy slice it and maybe we can work out a deal with you and see if it sells online?
http://stores.ebay.com/Zippys-Rocks_Horse-Canyon-Agate_W0QQfsubZ17627974...
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=horse+canyon+agate&_sacat=See-All-Categories
I looked at the websites you
I looked at the websites you gave me and yep, that's what I have ... a rock of it that weighs a little over 10 lbs. Great door stop, don't really want to sell it. I have some smaller pieces of it. I actually found these in a stream before you get to horse canyon....it's right pass the donkey farm..turned right on some road over by the other temple, the one right off sand canyon rd...I think it's a temple. Anyway a lot of cool rocks in that stream.
How much will Izzy charge me to slice my rock in half so that I can have two door stops???
Found in public access area or private property?
I am not asking to buy yours... I was wondering if there was more and could someone legally come and get it? I am sure Izzy won't charge you anything to cut it in half, especially if you trade him for some similar material... providing it is really horse canyon agate and not "leaverite" (as in leaverite there).
I don't know, I guess it's public, there is no sign there or anything and I have been there a few times. I don't go by road signs, I just know how to get there. Next time I go I will write down directions.
Cool, what is the address for Izzy? I can give him a smaller rock or two in trade.
Terri, so close that if I
Terri, so close that if I roll out of bed and down the hill a bit, I would be sleeping with a few horses, a lama and what I think is an enu.
I'm listening to a CD Math put together for me....dayum it's good. Get's better everytime I listen to it.
I will have to invite you guys up someday to see my collection...too heavy to take down the hill. lol
Hrmph
I wish if you're were going to mis-spell words you make it fun like Terri did.
lama => llama
enu => emu
Unless you've got some really weird aminals.
I will try harder next time
I will try harder next time to make my misspelling more enjoyable for you Math. Note to self ... llama, not lama as in the Dali Lama, and emu, not enu as in enuinc.com where I get all my puter supplies.... and no I have not slept with the Dali Lama but I have fallen asleep with my puter...lol... having fun yet?
Post new comment