The thing that helped me the most with my first drafts has always been, just write. Don’t edit, fix, or try to come up with some witty thing for a particular part. Just write. This is true especially for the NaNoWriMo. Usually once I’ve “finished” for the day I do the word count and plug it into the NaNo site. Then I…

The first year (2015) I spent the week before NaNo pretending it was NaNo and doing a bunch of binge writing. That year I wrote a novel that I had kicking around in one form or another for years. Even with the holiday and a big move mixed in I managed to hit the 50k word goal by the end of the month. Granted, by the…

I’m one of those that does the workout and then eats at my desk on the 4 days that I workout at work. I can manage a 5k+ run twice a week and a 35-40 min. bike ride or some other workout the other two days, and still have time to shower before getting back to my desk and downing whatever I brought for lunch. Since…

I really wish that I could have played PT, but I didn’t get a PS4 until recently. I’ve watch some play throughs though, and they were pretty amazing. I really love the more atmospheric types of horror games, even if they have shooter elements. Probably my favorite moment was playing Dead Space 2 and you find out that…

I’d love to say that I am surprised, but I am not. My wife and I were big fans of the initial game, but when we started picking up the adventure sets, they were all really uninspiring. They would be fun for a few minutes to go through the mini level that started them out, but then you were just left with an open area…

I’ve done the NaNo the last two years. The first year I was able to”win,” but only barely. The second year I only wrote about 5k words before I became too busy (buying a house, moving, and half marathon training) to get any meaningful writing done. I was planning on doing it this year, and already had a story somewhat…

I love my KitchenAid. I’ve had it for almost a decade now and have thrown a lot of stuff at it. Now though I use it mostly for the attachments as I do breads by hand. I have a grain mill (MockMill) attachment that I’ve done a lot with, the Pasta attachment set which has worked great so far, and the multi-use…

I used to work at a music retailer that was often regarded as a used car dealership with how customers approached buying their gear. Even internally we struggled to get out of that mindset. Never worked though, and when the internet retailers came along it just got worse. They’ve now switched to a no-haggle model, but…

Looks fun. Seems very different from the first, which I am sure many will complain about. The FPS on the PS4 Pro makes this look amazing. I might really have to think about getting one. The battle system reminds me a little of Kingdom Hearts, maybe. Those little groups of elementals (?) are an interesting bit, and…

I’m about 54 hours in (Thanks for that wastedondestiny.com link!) and I’ve been wondering the same thing. I didn’t read any of the power leveling guides beforehand, so the 260 level wall was really hard to get past. I’m up to 272-ish now, and I am getting more exotic drops. Still, it is really just a bunch of grinding…

I love the show. I am a fan, but nowhere in the ballpark as most of these people. We all like different things, and that is fine. Choose to like more than one thing though. I’ve seen too many friends get sucked into the fandom world, and it is frustrating. There is a weird tipping point where fans stop enjoying…

Thanks. Those were for my first pastry order. Client loved them. I started out as just a bread baker, but these are selling a lot better, require less time, and have a better profit margin, so they’re becoming a bigger part of my menu.

Pastry has always intimidated me until I recently tried my hand at it. I am a whole grain baker, which just adds more complication to the mix when doing pastry stuff. I found a couple of recipes and tried them out, and ultimately settled on a blend of a couple that has worked out well. The real key is the number of…

I received a Sunshot hand cannon pretty early. I think it was one of the first exotics that I got from a quest. It was already under powered, well under 200?, and I was still do the campaign, so legendary shards were hard to come by. In fact, I’m still not getting a ton of legendary drops. The first thing that I did…

This is pretty much how I felt playing Destiny 1. I loved the story (I also came into it around the same time as you) but I tend to play at odd hours from my circle of friends, so I was never able to find people to play any Raids with. I tried solo’ing a couple, but found them impossible for my skill level. One time I…

My wife asked me after the episode where I thought things were going with the season. I told her that we’re two episodes in, so there is no point in even trying to figure it all out. This series has always been pretty good about pulling the rug out from under you, so it is hard to guess this short into it.

The flaw in this article is that you are assuming that the autonomous functionality will remain behind a paywall. Currently it exists there because Tesla can, so they’ll continue to do it as long as it makes them a few bucks, and while they can iron out a bunch of the bugs. I am sure that including something as a…

If you went with a low hydration pumpernickel recipe it might work out better. I’ve read of people doing that in a crockpot, so a sous-vide might work. Your dough looks much more like a batter which would make for a super gummy loaf if there is no way for moisture to escape. You might want something a little more like…

Good to hear. Started up Rise of Iron last night because I thought that I still had some stuff to do. Nothing left but a ton of grindy Plaguelands Patrols b.s. I really hope that they limit that kind of stuff.

Anyone that’s been in the AV world for a few years knows that Apple love selling the user adapters and one-off tech. Until MacBooks went with the Mini DisplayPort adapter nearly every MacBook model had a different display adapter. We use to have to carry around a bag with us to events that had every version going back…