Michael Been RIP

I didn't know he died the other day! Sad to hear it... :(

He was the lead singer of The Call, who had some pretty great tracks from the mid-80s:

Probably their most recognizable track, one that got me into them.

One of my big favorites of the 80s, love the energy of this track.

And, interestingly enough, he played Apostle John in The Last Temptation of Christ. Also--didn't know he was the father of singer/bassist Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club...

[writing] In which a(nother) professional blog is born.

Hey all,

I have a new blog!

Yes, yes...I now have five, but one (the oft-forgotten (by me) mpthandbasket) will be deleted soon, once I save some of the posts. edencycle is still trilogy-only and very f-locked, my writing blog jonchaisson is still up and running, though changes may come there as well.

This new one is on Dreamwidth (thanks to ceciliatan for loaning me the invite code!), and can be found here and has the same name as my writing blog. If it looks very much like LJ, well, that's because it's run by a few ex-LJ people and has a lot of nifty things involved with it--many of which I should sit down and explore soon.

My plan is to post there at least once a week. Some other posts may be cross-posts from here and the writing blog, but for the most part I want to keep that one as an As It Happens writing blog--a lot less of the posting about writing and a lot more about posting ABOUT the writing I'm doing.

We'll see how this one pans out...I'm going to keep a lot of it unlocked, so hope you enjoy!

It's not exactly productivity, but it's progress.

So I spent a good portion of the afternoon in Spare Oom doing all sorts of things aside from writing. To wit:

--Breaking down a few boxes that had been sent to us containing online shopping goodness (including hiking shoes, pants, a riser for my monitor (which took up 10% of the box, the rest containing packing pillows), and the Writer's Market 2011.

--One of said boxes has been saved and now contains a growing pile of stuff to be shredded. Said to-be-shredded stuff was once in a different box (which was previously broken down) and elsewhere. This is part of a larger pile of stuff in front of the window which needs to be sorted through. This is mostly all sorts of whatnot that I may or may not need to save, along with things I definitely do not need to save. That project is a little further down the line.

--Various books moved around. The short bookshelf to the right of my desk now has the dictionaries and other reference books, put there as it's easier to reach while in mid-writing session. The books that were there--a collection of Writer's Digest how-to books and other things are now moved to the bookshelf to the left of the desk. And still more books and whatnot have been moved to the bookshelf partially obscured by the loveseat on the opposite wall behind me. Some books that were there are now also on the lefthand bookshelf.

--Cleaned up the bagfuls-of-bags in front of the larger bookshelves, narrowed it down to one bagful of bags and one not-broken-down box of packing paper, said packing pillows, and a plastic bag full of plastic bags. These too may be pared down later on.

The upside of this is that the window is a little easier to access now, the floor's a little cleaner, and I got to clean a few things in the process. There's more to be moved/cleaned/sorted/shredded/filed away, but I figure I'll keep doing a little at a time.


Still to be done:

--Sort through things still in front of window
--run a complete clean wipe of old PC and donate it to Goodwill so I have more closet room
--debate whether I want to keep some of my computer boxes, or at least break some of them down to save space
--figure out when/if we'll have another Great Book Purge soon
--find things to hang on some of the walls here...I have a few sort-of-empty spaces that need filling.



Okay, enough of that, let's see if I can sneak some writing in now! :p