Everything except Sci Fi tht is tonight. I had two very positve things come up today that I wanted to share with you. Yesterday i wrote something for one of my states to use. Not a bit of programing but some information for the end users. Today it sounds like several other states are going to be using my text also (tweaked to apply to that state of course). I don’t know the numbers but I imagine that it will be used by more than a dozen states. So having some of my work go around like that is great. 

The other bit of news is one that put a HUGE smile on my face. Back in my days at university when one my favorite professors taught philosophy. I still email him from time to time now. Today he emailed me and asked me to do a favor for him. He asked me to write a letter for him to the Tenure Committe at the University. I am sure lots of professors get asked to write letters for students but how many students get asked to write letters for professors?  I guess it doesn’t sound huge now, but to me it means a lot. 

I guess that is all I really have to say tonight. I welcome suggestions for story Ideas to write about, but mostly they ideas come from weird places. Sometimes the title comes first, sometimes I hear something to triggers a scene and I create a story to go around that scene.  The last story idea came from overhearing some religous talk on NPR, the stories can come from anywhere which means I don’t know when I will next have a good idea for a story or what it could possibly be about. For example Poem of my flesh, that title just popped into my head as I was walking down the hall of my apartment. Then I pulled out some old poetry I wrote in High school (A decade ago) and found something that would work well. Then I told a story with a poem of my flesh as the punch line and worked them in to together. I think it worked out well. 

In other news, if you leave a comment for me on the a Journal post and it doesn’t show up,one of two things might have happened. First time commenters get held until I can approve them. The other possibility is my spam filter might have caught you. I don’t have much of a problem with this on the journal but it does occasionally happen. Sadly I can’t do away with the spam filters. Let me show you a little bit of the spam comments I get. This is just for today and it isn’t all of them either. 

Tags: NaBloPoMo '08, Philosophy, Spam, Work