h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Dear Friends, Lurkers, and other assorted Hootoovians,

I wish you and yours a very happy Twenty-Eleven!

It has been awhile since I wrote anything in this journal. I don't feel like summing up the events of the last year or making a Best-of/Worst-of 2010 list.

Since a series of bad head/chest colds has been making many other winter activities impossible, I've been focused on writing instead. As a result I currently have three entries in PR (A78788074, A78783349, and A28880445) and one selected for the EG (A76117115). There are a few hootoovians who can write that much before breakfast, but for me, this represents a huge outpouring of the written word. However, it doesn't represent all I've tapped out in the last several weeks.

2010 was also my first year as a National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org) participant. During November, I banged out some 42,000 words of pure drivel. A recap of my NaNoWriMo adventures (A78131919) appeared in .

Interestingly, none of what I have written recently appears on paper. There's no final, no draft, not so much as an index card. Everything from original notes to submission to PR has been electronic. This is enormously different from the way I was taught to write, more productive, and more enjoyable.

And a happy 2011 to you, Happy Maybe this year I'll be able to find the time and money to visit a certain California brewery

It would be awesome if you bring your rolling theater with you. What could be better than movies and ?