Weekend 4 - a fun weekend, until the dryer showed up
You know what stinks?
This stinks:
This is the electrical cord for our new dryer coming up a few inches short of reaching the power outlet. "Fiddle dee dee," I said. "Gosh that is rather unfortunate, AND humorous. Ha, ha, ha."
Yes last night my brother-in-law Ryan helped me pick up our new dryer from Sears, haul it into our basement, and haul the old '80s-dryer-with-shot-bearings out. We unpacked the new dryer, moved it into place, picked up the power cord to plug it in, and, well, "fiddledeedee!" I said.
Given all the chaos of the past three weekends of Nanowrimo month, this one was, until that very moment, totally fun. Saturday we took the kids with my sister and brother in law and their kids to the Christmas Light Up in Spruce Grove. We had pictures with Santa, we had a hayride, we had free hot dogs and hot chocolate - if there had been any snow on the ground, it would have been a perfect winter event. Then my parents came up to visit and babysit our kids so my wife and I could join the rest of the gang I went to Japan with in 2005 to see our friend Sam (part of the Japan gang) in his sketch comedy group's Christmas play on Whyte Ave, Edmonton. The play was good, and we all had a good visit at a nearby pub after. Sunday morning we had a good visit with my parents, took the kids to my wife's church, then I headed to Edmonton's far northeast side, to Edmonton Public Library's Londonderry branch.
The Edmonton Nanowrimo group has four writing events planned at EPL branches over the month of November. Sunday's event (the last before the "last day" event here at the Stanley Milner Library where I work) was at Londonderry.
There were about 30 of us squeezed into the branch's downstairs program room. It was a lot of fun - we had a bunch of 10 minute "word wars" that actually pumped up my word count quite nicely, and I met other writers crazy enough to do Nanowrimo. I had to leave early in order to pick up our excellent new dryer (it's not actually the dryer's fault, whoever wired up the 220-volt plug in the breaker box/washer and dryer room in our basement just didn't put the plug low enough to cover off any such situations that might occur with future dryers), I wish I could have stayed a bit longer. Here's a couple of pics from my cell:
And now, onto the last five days. I have 17,000 words to write in five days, and you know what? I can totally do it.
Knock on wood.
