Brain Enema of a Savage Mind

Google just started offering IMAP support in GMail. This is a feature that makes me happier than it should!  I despise POP almost as much as I hate using a web based interface when I don’t have to.  Now, with IMAP, I can keep my mail client sync’d nicely whether using the mail client itself or the webmail.  Mail will be marked read, forwarded, etc. between all clients just peachy keen.  Sure, for most users this doesn’t mean much of anything, but for me it’s great news.

I’ve also been considering using gmail to handle thetravesty mail server.  There are numerous times where it would be nice to have someone else handling things - especially people with lots of resources and experience.  It’s something to think about.  Currently I’m having no big issues so I’m certainly in no hurry to move things over.

The other thing to think about is moving the work servers over to gmail.  We’ve had a lot of issues with work mail, but the way things are set up I’d rather not try and get everyone set up for using POP accounts.  This switch to support IMAP would take care of a lot of those issues.  Lots of things to think about.  For the time being, however, I’ll just test how it all works with my regular home account.

Awhile ago the brewery attempted to get a license so that we could sell beer by the pint.  The theory was that we would have a couple nights a week where we would do a happy hour.  The town dropped the hammer on that idea though.  Still, they ended up purchasing a couple of pub tables and some pub chairs.  All of them finally arrived the other day and I put them all together, so in the retail front they sit.  They look good there - they make the room look a lot less empty, but still, part of me thinks they seem silly for being there.  Though it occurred to me that while they might not be overly useful in terms of the customer, they would make a great Ithaca Beer after hours.

Hey, it’s the random things that I think when it gets slow.

Turn your back for a moment and the days whip on by.  Still, as far as posting goes it’s been a better month than most.  Time to really focus that brain in for the writingpaloza that will be November.

The wedding yesterday was nice.  It was very casual, very laid back, and I my lazy ass got to do some walking which is always a good thing.  I still question having someone sing during the ceremony.  I’m more the just get it done with so we can eat and drink type.

Not sure how to feel after dominating three periods of play in our first game of the season, yet still losing 1 - 5.  Their goalie was seriously good and all their goals came from two players on breakaways.  On the plus side we play this way against other goalies in this league and we’ll win a lot more games than we lose.

It’s a four day week for me.  Then a five day weekend.  That certainly doesn’t hurt.  Still, Monday is off to one hell of a slow start.  It’s gorgeous weather outside, but from all forecasts that’s about to change tonight.  Good.  We have a game at Cass on Thursday and I heard the weekend games there were hell with it being 70 out.

The trip to California should be interesting on many levels - I think I’ll go more in to that later.

It’s time for more coffee.

There had been a delay in bottling any of our homebrew that was caused by great laziness.  Sanitizing bottles is slow, messy, and really annoying.  I’m not a fan of the whole bottling.  Though I will admit once I actually get underway with it, it’s not as bad.  Getting the motivation to start the process is the difficult part.  Tonight we managed to get a little bit of motivation to take care of bottling one of the three beers readied to be bottled.  The other two will get bottled this week which will then free me up for making the next beer.  I’m thinking the Maple Porter is the next beer on the docket.

So for the second time I am going to make a go of NaNoWriMo.  Last year I tried to accomplish the 50,000 word “novel” but I petered out on it rather quick.  I’ve mentioned a few times that I’ve been looking to jump start creativity so I think this might be just what the doctor ordered to get things off the ground.  Even if I don’t manage to “win”, I’m hoping it will at least get me back in to the swing of writing regularly.

I don’t have any particular idea for what kind of novel I’m going to attempt - but I’m not going to even really contemplate that until November 1st.  I figure the best way of going about this is to just jump right in to the mix by writing whatever comes to mind at that particular moment and let my brain take me wherever it is that it wants to go.

50,000 words in 30 days, huh?  Break it down and that’s about 1667 words a day.  That’s a couple of single spaced sheets of paper.  I know I can do that.  In college I could rattle off a couple pages on just about anything in an hour or two.  I’m going to have to forget about the over all goal and break it down in to smaller objectives.  It’s an easier way to operate, breaking a big thing down in to smaller chunks.  If I manage to keep that pace up for the first couple weeks it just might give me that confidence boost needed to plow through to the end of the month.

There’s still a couple more weeks before it begins, so I’m not going to give it much thought until the thing kicks off on the first.