March Madness has begun! No, not the basketball thingy, but where writers at Forward Motion set a higher goal than usual and, with the word count only being a single work (unless it is connected poetry or short stories), reach those goals over 7 days. Mine is over 5K a day, which I happened to reach yesterday. Time to get started on today’s!
Simple Sarah is up to 88,575. Total for the year is 249,115. Wow. That means I am less than 100 words from reaching the half-way point of my year goal. What month is this? Oh, and I just added my word count spreadsheet. Well, part of it. I have it in a MSWorks Spreadsheet. Across the top are all of my ‘projects’, down the first left hand column are the dates along with what that row means. For example, almost every day has two rows: ‘3/26 count’ (the ending count of the document for that day) and ‘word count’ (the new words to that document that day). I get the daily count by having the spreadsheet take that day’s start count and subtract it from the previous day’s ending count. To the right, at its appropriate place, is the total of all the other columns for that day.
Example:
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Clear as mud?
In Real Life I got my lovely CPAP machine, the ResMed S7 and its HumidAire 2i, yesterday and spent my first night as an official ‘hosehead’. I seemed to have done okay and only woke up once with it out of place. Lorna says I still snored some though since I slept with my mouth open. Goody, that means I now get to strap my mouth shut. And no, I will not take pictures, even though my shut mouth is an endangered species.
We have decided to find Sammy and Bobby a new home. Spring is here and they are wantin’ some gals. Its just not fair to them to not be with a flock.