The kids went fishing (yet again--they went last night too) this morning, so there was silence in the house, and I considered recording, but there was actual work to be done, so I focused on that. Then I threw a pizza in the oven, and while it cooked, I went out and raked leaves in the lawn, and then I ate the pizza, and as soon as that was done, I set up my microphone and started recording.
I got ten minutes in when my neighbor started up his leaf-blower. The windows were closed, but it was intensely loud, so I did a bit of paperwork while I waited for him to finish. The moment he was done, I fired up the recorder again, and got another three or four minutes in before the sound of a lawn mower next door started up, not as loud as the leaf-blower, but lower pitched and more rumbly. It's been twenty minutes now, and there's no signs of stopping.*
Sit-ups Today: 100
Sit-ups In October: 3138
I did go back to the recording a while after that, and before I had even sat down in my chair, my nephews got home from their fishing trip and were screaming and turning the television up loud, which I will admit made me push my microphone over. It hit the wall, knocked a stack of Star Wars figures down, and then I stomped once on the microphone stand. It's been a few hours since I did that, and I'm not proud of myself, but I feel I need to admit to the act, before any of you consider voting for me for mayor.
Push-ups Today: 100Push-ups In Octobre: 3546
It’s the Saturday before Halloween, and I hit the library as soon as I could, but since it closed early, I got very few words in. Still working on my carnival story, but I have to admit that I don’t know where it’s going, and that is usually a bad thing.
Words Today: 471
Words In Octubre: 21,798
*Technically, it did stop, and I thought, "Alright, finally, let's see where I was in the recordi--" And then, he started mowing in the front yard too. Well played, adversary to accomplishment, well played.
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