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Just stuff I thought of while getting a little exercise. |
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The doctor was serious. "You are getting too lazy for a 78 year-old. Watch your diet, then do some exercise to burn off a hundred calories every day." A writer's life is sitting in a chair. I can't stand just exercising, pumping iron, push-ups. So, I had to come up with something interesting while getting a little exercise. Our neighborhood has 23 McMansions on 1 acre lots. It's about one mile round trip to walk past them all. At my normal gait, it takes about 25 minutes. MtFitnessPal says 25 minutes at 3.5 mph is worth 129 calories. So that's what I'll do... but at first it might be a little boring. But 25 minutes, doing a mindless task, allows the mind to wonder. Maybe I can make it into a mindless blog. |
Tripping over History November 4, 2024 at 11:51am My fiction stories occur in a framework of history. I use spreadsheet mathematics to relate dates and time intervals for character’s births, schools, marriages, story events, etc.
Five years ago I started History_Timeline.xls of significant historic events so I can use real happenings to influence my storyline.
I use History.com to fill in the major events and ChatGPT to nail down precise times and places. I now have 2700 entries; some current, a few back to Roman times, but most in the... [Read more] |
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