[Weekend] Walkies

OY. My dogs is barkin' AGAIN.

After a Bay Area Weather Fake-Out (read: a downpour lasting exactly five minutes and the sky clearing to a brilliant blue ten minutes after that) earlier this morning, we set out and walked up 25th Avenue up to Golden Gate Park (four and a half long blocks away), where we made our way in at Crossover Drive. After getting distracted by the oddness that is the Disc Golf course--basically mini-golf with smallish frisbees--we found our way to JFK Drive and headed eastbound to Stow Lake. We spent a goodly amount of time there, checking out the flora, the birds, and the gophers. Yes, gophers! The little dudes kept on popping up out of their little holes to nom on some grass then zip back underground. Surprisingly I didn't hear Kenny Loggins when they did that.

Anyway...there's a huge hill in the middle of Stow Lake (SF is known for hills being in the weirdest places) called Strawberry Hill, which was quite a hike but a lot of fun once we got up there...nice views, a manmade waterfall, and a breeze to cool us off. Once we managed to get back down, we headed to the eastern end of the lake, where we cut through on a path that led us to the back end of the Music Concourse, where the de Young and the Academy of Sciences are. From there we called it a day and took the 44 bus over to Clement, where we had a tasty chicken katsu sammich from a Hawaiian BBQ/Bakery, zipped up to California, took the 1 bus back to our neighborhood, and headed home (with a small sidetrip to Angelina's for coffee, of course). We are now tired and achey, full of pictures that need uploading, and happy that we got our exercise in. Not sure of the distance, but probably at least two or three miles. A bit less than last weekend at the Presidio, but close enough.

I'm really enjoying our weekend walking tours, especially since we're sandwiched between two famous parks. I'm getting my exercise, taking some neat pix, and working off the stress and the extra weight. Lord knows I should be in better shape at this point, so this is definitely helping.

Once I get my PC back, or at least get around to uploading to this laptop, I'll upload the pix and share them here! :)

[Writing] Weekend Stats

Love Like Blood:
Finished off another revision of Chapter 3. I'm thinking the Big Action Scene near the end of the chapter still needs a bit of work, or at least a better lead into it, but I'll work on that on the next wave through. The final shot probably needs a bit of work too. Working on Chapter 4 now, in which we find Our Hero doing all sorts of fun things three months later. I just started this so I'm not exactly sure what needs fixing yet.

A Division of Souls:
I have to remind myself that my writing style for LLB is definitely different from this one, so it doesn't necessarily need to sound the same. On the other hand, Most of this was written a good eight or nine years ago so could probably do with some dusting off. There's a lot of extraneous stuff not needed, a few connecting scenes not needed, and a lot of prose that needs cleaning up. Keep in mind, this is still dealing with the first few chapters...which almost always need a lot of work come revision time.

Walk In Silence:
Due to the fact that I'd saved the two WIS chapters in a newer MS Word format that this laptop doesn't have, I find myself currently not working on the actual writing of it. However, yesterday afternoon to evening I started something I'd meant to do some time ago, a "music chronology" reference sheet--basically a chronology of music releases (only some albums at present, but will add singles, comps, and other timely things to it once Spare Oom is back up and running). My reason for making this is so I can refer to a chronology without having to boot up my mp3 collection or go to Wikipedia every five minutes. Sure, it might be a bit off, but it's something to work with at any rate.

Other:
A few ideas in mind that may see light this coming week. More about that soon.


Overall:
The scheduling is working well so far! Basically I worked on LLB on Monday and Tuesday, ADoS on Wednesday and Thursday, did a bit of both on Friday, and worked on the WIS chronology on Saturday. There's room for variation, but I like how this is working out, so I'll be sticking to it.