Thanksgiving #3, 2005
Nov. 27th, 2005 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebThe Saturday after Thanksgiving, Mom cooked the whole Thanksgiving meal for the two of us. Ridiculous. Also delicious. Also, I now have a lot of leftover turkey.
We also watched some TV shows about several tools, mainly routers (for carpentry, not computer connections), which was interesting, because I never quite understood how they worked before. I still don't really understand, but now I know they're sort of like drills made for cutting lines instead of holes by moving them along the wood like a saw instead of leaving them in one place like a drill. They don't look like drills because they have extra bits around them that help you keep them level while you're moving them.
We also played Quiddler, a spelling card game, by the regular rules. With only two players, I don't feel like I have to play a pirate version (where you steal each other's words) to keep it interesting while you're waiting for your turn. However, I then did make up a version where we each get eleven cards as if it's the last round and try to maximize our points, and then we switch hands and try to do it again, and then we compare our scores on the identical hands. My mom was much better at coming up with longer words, but I was generally better at getting more points (not counting the biggest-word bonus).
Nanowrimo Update
Mom was on the computer once, so I pulled out my laptop computer and starting writing. But then she got up almost right away, so I stopped.
On the way home, I listened to music through the icky part of the driving (getting out of town), then turned it off so I could compose more of the novel into my tape recorder. However, it turns out if you're sitting there with no ideas in your brain on only six hours of sleep, it is not safe to drive. So I turned the music back on.
Word count: 192 + 0 = 192. Also, I arrived home safely.
We also watched some TV shows about several tools, mainly routers (for carpentry, not computer connections), which was interesting, because I never quite understood how they worked before. I still don't really understand, but now I know they're sort of like drills made for cutting lines instead of holes by moving them along the wood like a saw instead of leaving them in one place like a drill. They don't look like drills because they have extra bits around them that help you keep them level while you're moving them.
We also played Quiddler, a spelling card game, by the regular rules. With only two players, I don't feel like I have to play a pirate version (where you steal each other's words) to keep it interesting while you're waiting for your turn. However, I then did make up a version where we each get eleven cards as if it's the last round and try to maximize our points, and then we switch hands and try to do it again, and then we compare our scores on the identical hands. My mom was much better at coming up with longer words, but I was generally better at getting more points (not counting the biggest-word bonus).
Nanowrimo Update
Mom was on the computer once, so I pulled out my laptop computer and starting writing. But then she got up almost right away, so I stopped.
On the way home, I listened to music through the icky part of the driving (getting out of town), then turned it off so I could compose more of the novel into my tape recorder. However, it turns out if you're sitting there with no ideas in your brain on only six hours of sleep, it is not safe to drive. So I turned the music back on.
Word count: 192 + 0 = 192. Also, I arrived home safely.