Crotchety old lady in training

Apparently I have reached that age where I will roll my eyes, shake my head and give disdainful looks. And if you are three teenaged girls riding the electric handicap scooters at Walmart, I will do this, especially when you were seen skipping through the parked cars in the parking lot on the way in. Especially if you decide to play follow the leader through the store, getting in the way of shoppers, like me. And if you have the audacity to be offended by my disdain, I will tell you that it is sad that you feel the world is your playground, that you have now run the batteries down so that other people who need the scooters cannot use them, that they are meant for disabled people to use - not three self-important little girls, and that it is sad that your parents obviously have not taught you needed lessons for the abrupt awakening of adulthood that is headed your way.

And then I will make my way out of the store as quickly as I can, hoping my tires will not be slashed in the near future.

So what are you going to do today?

I work in a profession where no one really works the same schedule, week to week or person to person. One week I'll work MTW. Next week it may be SuWT. My friend may work WThF. Who knows? So when you get to work with someone, at some point in the night the conversation turns to "Who's back tonight?"

Jessa asked me that this last night. It was my Friday, meaning I get a couple of days off. Next, almost required, question is usually "What are you going to do?" My answer this week was "I'm doing summer camp".

Summer camp for me is a mini version of what I do in November. NaNoWriMo has Camp NaNoWrimo.  Writing goals that are less stringent, more loosey-goosey. And I get to write.

I worked well last week, logged almost 12K words. Not too bad. I knew who my characters were, what they were doing. Tried to pick it up tonight, and just can't get a feel for it.

Enter my other hobby - gaming. Specifically DCC gaming. Thanks to Purple Sorcerer Games, I have an easy to understand system to record my characters.  I'll spend tonight getting character sheets in order, and hopefully tomorrow night I can hit it again.

Well Back to the Word Mines.