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At the time I took this I was thinking of all the construction on the belt that surrounds my fair city, but what impresses me most here is the pressing sky.
Cloudy with a Chance of Overcast
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Author Archives: Tom Harold
Caught ya
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I would make a terrible spy. Caught by a grade-schooler!
NaNo, Day Four
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This was right before I sat down at the local coffee shop to get to work for the evening. Notice I have all the necessities: laptop, coffee, biscotti, and a really big harmonica.
Mr. Lubie!
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I don’t know how far the Mr. Lubie empire stretches across the country, but you see them here and there around Indiana. There used to be one down in Martinsville. I didn’t realized the franchise was so large they actually owned their own trucks! I want to drive one of these. I want to drive a big tanker full of used oil that says “Mr. Lubie” on the side of it.
I do so wish I could have been the people who came up with the entire idea for that chain, plus the graphics. It would have been the highlight of my year.
Off to School
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Seen on my way to work this AM.
NaNo has Struck!
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It’s that time of year again, folks! My life is officially being swallowed by the worldwide phenomena known as National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo to those of us who talk about it so much we have to shorten it. The challenge is to write a novel of not less than fifty thousand words in thirty days. I did it last year, got 76K of a 92K novel written in thirty days. I hope to be a lot closer to finishing my novel this year at the end of the month rather than dragging it out for an additional seven months afterward as I did last year.
It is very likely that my life will devolve into me spending most of my time at my laptop writing for the next thirty days. It is highly likely that posts here will become erratic and that you may not see the picture posts put up in a very timely manner. Rest assured, I’m not dead or sequestered on jury duty. I’m just writing a novel. A whole novel. In a month.
And then there were None
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That didn’t take long, did it? Glad I got all those shots of the leaves on the trees while the weather was good. They all disappeared in the space of about a week.
Little Bug
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Definitely not my finest work. Quite shaky, but the subject is so cute it helps redeem me just a tiny bit. I was overrun with work and tired this day, and I only took six pictures, and three of them were of this little girl, and this was the best. Kind of pathetic, that, but there are some days where that’s all I’ve got in me.
Early Drive
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A little shaky this morning. This was before daylight savings kicked in, and we had a few mornings that looked more like night.
Squashed
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What happens when Tom and the kitchen meet: acorn squash, butter, apricot preserves. I’m no gourmet by any means, but I can occasionally pull off something other than a microwave burrito. These are also good if you sub brown sugar for the apricot preserves.