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A blog about Dave Gatchell.
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    Every year I remember too late that the National Novel Writing Month has started. For some reason, 2018 has given me a Halloween miracle and I've remembered it before it's started this year.

    The November National Novel Writing Month challenge is to write 50,000 words. That
    is 1612.903225806451613 words per day. A lot of words per day even if you round
    down.

    I'm inspired by anyone who takes the challenge. If you're doing it, you rule. Don't give
    up. It's gonna be a slog.

    For me, I skew non-fiction so that's going to be my angle for the 50,000 word typee-typee November challenge.
     

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    I had a dream last night that I couldn't find where I parked my car. You'd think your
    own brain could serve up some cool dream instead of something SO mundane. My
    brain could have had me traveling in foreign Lands or talking to Einstein or Buddha or
    someone.

    Nope...my brain had me walking forever looking for a parking spot.

    When l woke up, my first reaction was to write a Workflow workflow to remember the
    spot you need to remember.

    It is nothing fancy but it does the job. It gets your current location, adds the address to
    a new note in the Notes app, and then save the location to a file in Dropbox as a back
    up if you accidental delete the note.

    (http://workflow.is/workflows/c20dbe0993584239b0132a6249402e6c)

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    I have hit critical mass with devices with dead batteries. The are also a few devices with chargers that need spaces for their chargers. I am dedicating today to electricity and organizing things that need charging.