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NaBloPoMo starts this Saturday, and once again I'm going to participate. The idea is to post at least once a day for the entire month of November. I did it last year, and I'm going to try and do it again this year. Part of the reason that I've not been posting so much in the last couple weeks is that I've been saving my ideas for this challenge. While I have a few ideas saved up so far, I don't have anywhere near enough stuff to write about to last me an entire month. So, while unashamedly swiping the idea from another blogger, I'm going to ask you for questions I can respond to over the course of the next month. Or if you don't have a specific question, perhaps you have a topic that interests you, and you'd like to hear my opinion on it. Or maybe you couldn't care less about my opinion, but you just want to get a nice fuzzy warm feeling from helping me out. I'm not picky about your motives, I just want your help! You can leave your question in the comments, or e-mail me directly (thedenora (at) gmail (dot) com).
Any and all help is appreciated!
LL tagged me for a meme again, which is perfect since I’m having writers block! Have I mentioned how much I love her?
THE RULES:
** Post about the meme and link back to the person that tagged you.
** Go back to your archives and link to your five favorite posts.
Link One: must be about family
Link Two: must be about friends
Link Three: must be about yourself
Link Four: must be about something you love
Link Five: can be anything you choose
** Tag five other people (at least two must be new acquaintances so that you can get to know them better).
Family: Ok so my post about family would be this one, although it’s not the most flattering familial post ever. But honesty is the best policy, and all that jazz. A post about my immediate family would be “Baby Babbling,” though that’s more wishful family thinking. (And you’ll all pretend that you didn’t notice I’m cheating with more than one pick. Now you’re accomplices to my cheating!)
Friends: “Ashamed” is probably my most heartfelt post on this blog. And if you’d like some lighter reading, try this one, coincidently entitled “Friends.”
Me: The post about myself is hard, because I talk about me all the time. I’ll go with “And so it begins…” for now, just because people seem to think it’s interesting. I’ll also throw in “Just One Person” since it’s a follow up, and was probably the hardest post for me to write (other than the aforementioned Baby Babbling).
Things I Love: I love lots of things, but it seems like I never blog about them. So I shall make a commitment to whine less and blog about things I love more. “Obsession: How I love thee” is a small look into my head. “Happy New Year!” has a lot of things I love, like friends, food, and theater.
Random: Hmm, anything I choose. Well, this one is good as a snippet of things about me, for new readers (also my first and only other meme, compliments of the fabulous LL!). “Emotional Roller Coaster” explains my current tagline. And “The Denora: A History” is just one of my favorite posts I’ve written.
And now that I’ve cheated on every category, I decree the following people shall be tagged:
-NGS over at Neurotic Grad Student, because she’s hysterical, and I love reading what she writes. (Nevermind that she has a fiancee, school, and 3 jobs to juggle, and probably doesn’t need a blog assignment).
-Lisa at Dream for an Insomniac because she’s taking a writing class, so I’m SURE she needs yet another thing to write about 
-Kate at Silly Little Girl because her style of writing is very much like my style of thinking. She just says it better. And she could probably use a distraction right about now.
-and now I’m out of people to tag, because Someone being me already tagged LL, who in turn tagged me. So if you’re new here Hi! You’ve been tagged!
Since November is National Blog Posting Month, I’ve decided to step up my blogging and join the challenge. All you have to do is blog every day for the entire month of November. Seems easy, right? I’ve been having trouble writing something a few times a week, so this is going to be interesting. NaBloPoMo is an offshoot of NaNoWriMo which stands for National Novel Writing Month. The object of that little happening is to write a 50,000 word novel over the course of a month. That’s a wee bit too far out of my league, so I’m going to stick with the blogging. I can’t promise all of it (or any of it) will be interesting, but I’m hoping you’ll be entertained at least once or twice. Some will be serious, as I’m trying to be honest here, but I’m quite certain my sarcasm will come shining through for your enjoyment.
So! To start the festivities, I’ll share with you how incredibly stupid I am. That’s always good for a laugh, right?
I’ve been working with computers all my life. I built my first one when I was in 4th grade, and it’s been a love/hate relationship ever since. I am not afraid to admit that I’m a geek, and that playing with a new computer or software is far more exciting to me than going to a club or bar. You’d think that based on my love for computers and my past experience, that I would be very cautious when it comes to backing up, viruses, updates, etc.
Not so much.
Monday, my computer decided to make a mockery of me and died. Just up and quit. Black screen of death. It won’t start Windows, fights the diagnostic check, and only runs the backup CD once every 5 attempts. Glorious. Do I have an external hard drive where I’ve backed up all my most important documents? Nope! Do I have a server where I could have potentially backed up my things? Yep! Sitting in the second bedroom right next to my desktop collecting dust. Is it hooked up? Nope. Hadn’t got around to that yet. *sigh* This is the Computer God’s way of punishing me for my trust in my own ability to repair things, should a problem occur (read: being too cheap to buy the extended warranty). So now my buddy Brian, who serves as the computer guru at my office (If Denora can’t fix it, CALL BRIAN!), is taking a look at it, and it doesn’t look good. It appears that a virus has hacked its lovely little way into my hard drive and rendered it stupid. Which means I have potentially lost all of my wedding photos, vacation photos, 20GB of music, my website files, and various other odds and ends that I’ve saved over the last 3 years. My sister told me that she has copies of my wedding pics, so I’ve stopped freaking out about that. But everything else is potentially gone. There’s still the slight possibility that the data, if not the drive, can be salvaged, so keep your fingers crossed! Regardless, I’m going to have to go get another hard drive. I’m less than pleased about this. I am, however, aware that this is entirely my fault, and that I deserve it for being so lackadaisical about net security and backups. Will I learn from this? Only time, and my Best Buy credit card, will tell.
*taps microphone*
Is this thing on? Can anyone hear me?
Hi! I’m here! Hoping this thing works, and doesn’t look uber lame. And really if it does, I care not. It’s something to do while I’m bored. And of course to entertain you! Yeah. Because I’m all about doing things for others.
Really.
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