The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

[HairOfTheDog]

Can you tell us what is under the house tap tap tapping the last three nights?

It’s bigger than a mouse!

Gidget is obsessing on one of the heater vents in the kitchen.

[Corin Stormhands]

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage...

[JenB]

That is not the thing to read when you are delusional. I mean sick. Whatever.

Ungh.

I’m gonna crawl back into bed as soon as I send an email in to work.

[HairOfTheDog]

Are you saying there is a watch in my vent... or a drummer?

[Corin Stormhands]

Alas, it is the sound that you hear...

[Corin Stormhands]

Werk is gettin’ in the way of muh nanoresearch...

[TalonDJ]

Nano research! I knew there was something I was suppose to be doing while sitting here staring at this computer.

[TalonDJ]

I should take some lunch home to my sick in bed wife but I don’t want to call and wake her up to ask what she would like.

Tofu burgers it is then!

[TalonDJ]

I just sent off for info for our Japan trip. We kept waiting for a friend of ours to get some stuff to us and he finally had to back out because of work. So it will be just us and in the middle of October if we can still set it up in time.


if not I am sure we can find a gunshow to blow all that money at.

[Lil'freeper]

teehee - still testing out bourbons?

[Lil'freeper]

I’m stepping back from the Nano for a couple of days. Got everything I have plot-wise so far loaded into my new software and I need to let it simmer.... and see if I can get some inspiration for plugging plot holes.

[Corin Stormhands]

Today we were reading about rice plantations and how Reconstruction and a series of hurricanes in the 1890s pretty much destroyed that industry in South Carolina.

[Lil'freeper]

Good stuff.

[JenB]

I still don’t have a plot. But I do have a husband bringing lunch to me.

[Corin Stormhands]

Yeah. My MC is writing his book from the porch of the family mansion. The land is rented out to farmers. Would have been a HUGH mistake if I’d had them growing rice.

[Corin Stormhands]

You could write a murder mystery about a husband who tried to kill his wife with tofu burgers...

[JenB]

He’s bringing me a quesadilla. And no tofu. We got that one straightened out :)

[Corin Stormhands]

So much for theplot.

[JenB]

It was a silly plot anyway.

[Corin Stormhands]

You may not think so on November 1...