{"id":319,"date":"2011-10-11T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=319"},"modified":"2011-10-11T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T12:09:10","slug":"yes-i-was-waiting-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/yes-i-was-waiting-for-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I was waiting for this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/2011\/10\/11\/yes-i-was-waiting-for-this\/neutral2_180_180_white\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"320\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/yes-i-was-waiting-for-this\/neutral2_180_180_white\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Neutral2_180_180_white.png\" data-orig-size=\"180,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Neutral2_180_180_white\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Neutral2_180_180_white.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Neutral2_180_180_white.png\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-320\" title=\"Neutral2_180_180_white\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Neutral2_180_180_white-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Neutral2_180_180_white-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Neutral2_180_180_white.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>All right kittens.\u00a0 The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\">NaNoWriMo<\/a> site is finally up!\u00a0 Is it sad that I was waiting for this?\u00a0 I mean, it&#8217;s still mid October and I have a couple of stories that I really really really want to finish up before starting something shiny and new on November first, but I&#8217;m really excited about National Novel Writing Month this year.\u00a0 The past two years I&#8217;ve tried, but because of moving and unforeseen circumstances I was not able to make much of a go of it or a show of it.\u00a0 And then there was the 23,000 word thumbdrive corruption&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Why is my lease set in November?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway!\u00a0 In an effort to distract myself from writing, I will still be drawing and trying to figure out how to integrate a web-comic posting function into this here blog, or website.<\/p>\n<p>Once the buddy function is up and running<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/en\/participants\/leems\"> make me a friend<\/a> and we&#8217;ll write together come November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right kittens.\u00a0 The new NaNoWriMo site is finally up!\u00a0 Is it sad that I was waiting for this?\u00a0 I mean, it&#8217;s still mid October and I have a couple of stories that I really really really want to finish up before starting something shiny and new on November first, but I&#8217;m really excited about&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/11\/yes-i-was-waiting-for-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, I was waiting for this.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-nanowrimo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4672,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/nanowrimo-is-coming\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":0},"title":"NaNoWriMo is coming","author":"leems","date":"October 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"And I am all set for it.\u00a0 I'm ready and waiting.\u00a0 I know what I'm going to write:\u00a0 a novel idea I had brewing but didn't allow myself to do much more than jot down ideas 'cause I had too many other stories to finish.\u00a0 It is The Devil of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2013-Participant-Facebook-Cover","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-Participant-Facebook-Cover-600x222.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-Participant-Facebook-Cover-600x222.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-Participant-Facebook-Cover-600x222.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6497,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/10\/09\/national-novel-writing-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":319,"position":1},"title":"National Novel Writing Month","author":"leems","date":"October 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\"November 1-30. 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