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NaJoPoMo, AEHill, 15 November 2012
Posted Nov 15, 2012
I was reworking my "Power" segment when the computer ate my homework...
be back later, I need some fresh air. [smiles]
[any excuse to get out for a while]
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NaJoPoMo, AEHill, 14 November 2012
Posted Nov 14, 2012
A Journal about writing The Prize:
Introduction, A87776059
The Prize, Section 1 – A Sort of Sordid History, A87776789
The Prize, Section 2 – A Not So Sordid History, A87776798
Again I tacked on a new segment, “Power” to Section 2.
This was a complicated bit of history to document.
I was happy I simplified it as well as I did, but it needs much more work. Perhaps it is off track to some degree. Perhaps not, I think that one of the greatest developments of all time was the electric power distribution system. Although the Nobel Committee considered a prize, it was never awarded. In hindsight, Westinghouse, Tesla, and Stanley should have been honored for the March 20, 1886 first.
When some things go wrong, they all seem to go wrong.
I hold on to the knowledge that tomorrow will be different,
and the hope that it will be better, not worse. [smiles]
Looks like the day beckons.
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NaJoPoMo, AEHill, 13 November 2012
Posted Nov 13, 2012
A Journal about writing The Prize:
Introduction, A87776059
The Prize, Section 1 – A Sort of Sordid History, A87776789
The Prize, Section 2 – A Not So Sordid History, A87776798
Kinda lost my main track but needed to keep writing.
I tacked on a segment about other prizes at the end of section 2.
I will need to come back later to make a better transition.
This stuff still fits with the overall theme about why a prize motivates.
Time for a walk-a-bout…
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NaJoPoMo, AEHill, 12 November 2012
Posted Nov 12, 2012
A Journal about writing The Prize:
Introduction, A87776059
The Prize, Section 1 – A Sort of Sordid History, A87776789
The Prize, Section 2 – A Not So Sordid History, A87776798
Yes, another day, finally.
My nose ran so fast I couldn’t catch my meeting with friends.
Having missed that meeting, I backed out of the pot-luck at the park.
Having backed out of the pot-luck without checking my rearview I hit on doing nothing of note.
Having hit on doing nothing, I fell down.
Having fallen, I did not get up again.
Depression can be a bugger.
Having fallen down, I did watch some TV.
The Comedy Channel was sick but I got a laugh out of the History Channel.
According to “The Men Who Built America” Henry Ford’s first production car was the Model A. Then he was able to make the Model T. 
Flippen’ ‘round more channels, I heard one reporter suggest the new generation was illiterate in History. A bunch of them must be working for peanuts at the History Channel.
What is the world coming to? [Wow, that what my grandparents said]
I do hate getting old, but that started the day I was born.
I can better understand why some would want to just pull the plug on life.
Connecting back to The Prize, I changed nothing Sunday.
But “The Men Who Built America” also tried [my patience] to show some history of Edison with JP Morgan and Tesla with Westinghouse. That too, was so wrong that I almost laughed. Still, I did pick up on some new points that I will enjoy researching. Did Morgan blackmail Westinghouse into signing AC patents over to General Electric while at the same time booting Edison out of his own company? Then they had the verve to use the ex-president of GE to comment on how corrupt Morgan and the others were in those days.
Being a good cowboy, on my horse I go and off into a new day…
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NaJoPoMo, AEHill, 11 November 2012
Posted Nov 11, 2012
A Journal about writing The Prize:
Introduction, A87776059
The Prize, Section 1 – A Sort of Sordid History, A87776789
The Prize, Section 2 – A Not So Sordid History, A87776798
I reworked section two.
I had my French Toast and coffee.
I got distracted by water.
It is a good day to break a few rules.
[Taking a deep breath now]
Maybe I will add to section two, we’ll see.
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