I voted!

I have Mondays off, so Tuesday is my personal Monday.

Add to that that I work 3rd shift but frequently spend weekends as if I'm a normal human (requiring me to sleep odd hours on Tuesday to get back in the swing of things), and the fact that I do a podcast on Monday night that requires editing on Tuesday before posting (Pulp Audio Weekly if you're interested), and I really don't have a lot of spare time normally.

Last night we recorded a behemoth of a show, and didn't finish until about 1am. It took longer to edit than normal AND I started late due to sleeping "in" until about 7am. So I had even less time than normal.

That tiny amount of time, I spent greasing the wheels of our representative democracy (See that sticker?)

All this is so you understand the below:

Word Count: 14078, 0 today.

How you doin'?

Not feeling super creative today, so here's a picture that actually shows off my beard. Sorry for the fuzziness, the camera's really not feeling it today, apparently.

Word Count: 14078, 0 today.

No worries. Days off are important and I had a busy day otherwise. I did not miss my word count today; I didn't have one. Tomorrow I will write up a storm.

BACK OFF I'M STARVING

When I woke up on the floor of the kitchen, Jenny showed me this picture. I have no recollection of the event.

All I can imagine is that I'm getting the manly equivalent of pregnancy cravings. My beard wanted butter, and nothing was going to keep the butter away from me.

Word Count: 14078, 3386 today.

Don't jump on the congratulation bandwagon (which leaves congratulation station every hour) just yet. About 2000 of those words were spliced in from last year's failed first draft. I literally could not improve them (in 1st draft stage) so figured I wouldn't try. However, I didn't want to forget where I wanted them, so put them in this years' draft.

Instead of remembering to subtract 2000 words every week, I figured it'd be easier to just set my new goal to be 52,000 words, and put a disclaimer for this day's progress. I actually only wrote 1386 words which is kinda sad, but I'm still ahead.

Just not as much ahead as I wanted to be.

You may recognize the owner of that eye peeking out from behind me.

I was planning on sitting home all night writing, but then friends called and said they were going to the B Spot and a movie, and asked if we (Jenny and I) would like to come.

We indeed would like to come, especially because B Spot is about 2 miles from the house.

The movie was Puss In Boots, on IMAX, in 3-D. I liked the movie and didn't mind the 3D as much as I did when I tried it for Harry Potter 7.5. I still don't think it's worth it, but it wasn't nearly as much of a detriment this time around.

Because of all this, my word count took a hit. I'm still ahead, though, and fully plan to make it up tomorrow.

Word Count: 10692 total, 1549 today.

Not bad, really, considering it was an off day.

There appears to be a little salt in that pepper

This here is what you'd call the Typical Wesley Beard, or Stubblicus Mediantus.

Word Count: 9144 total, 1412 today.

My first day not getting the "official" word count of 1667, but considering how I've done up until now I'm still content. I'm looking forward to the weekend. "5K Saturday" has a nice ring to it.

Don't look sad or you'll get points knocked off!

I crop my photos for artistic value.

And to remove props that look stupid after more sober reflection.

Word Count: 7732 total, 1886 today.

i was hoping to be at 9000 by now, having written 3000 words each day. I think that's proving to be too much to expect on work days. However, 1886 is still more than the needed 1667 words a day to reach 50k by November 30, and I started the day ahead. So, I'm content.

Welcome to my pub. All beard types welcome.

I'd like you to know that the blurriness of this image is intentional and done for artistic reasons.

That's a lie, but that's what I'd like you to believe. The truth is my camera's not so great and there's not much I can do about it for the time being.

Anyway, you can see a slight darkening around my beardular region, which is nice. But really until the 2nd week my face isn't going to look all that different than it does the rest of the year. I just don't shave all that much.

Word Count: 5846 total, 2474 today.

Well over where I should and impressive considering I had only about 2 hours of spare time today. But I wanted to break 6k before midnight.

Sorry it's washed out. I had to edit it in Paintbrush because Gimp's crashing for some random reason.

This is a very abnormal feeling for me, being clean shaven at work. I generally shave on Saturday morning, and then not again until the next Saturday. Shaving on a Tuesday morning (albeit at midnight Tuesday morning) has caused me to walk into work more cleanly shaven than any time in the past several months.

Kinda funny considering the whole point of the month is to be bearded. Oh well, that will come.

Word Count: 3372

It says "Censorship is a very important issue in today's world"

For the 2nd year in a row, I've started this most manly endeavor in the most feminine way I could: With my girlfriend's razor blade. She's got a house while I'm in a lowly apartment, see, so Halloween is much better here.

Add to that my forgetfulness (and the fact that I don't shave on weekends normally) and I didn't have my razor with me. Again.

But her Froo-froo girly razor with the word "Venus" in the name somewhere did a pretty good job and I'm quite happy with the result. This is a good start, and I *WILL* carry it through to the end.

I'll also be posting my word counts for NaNoWriMo here, to keep off those NaNo forums and their time wasterlyness. I've not written any yet, so...

Word Count: 0

Positive, Ghost Rider. The pattern has plenty of room.