rumors of my cessation have been greatly exaggerated

This blog isn’t dead, I promise. The combination of dead laptop (which makes it inconvenient to come here to the office to post) and additional writing work from NaNoWriMo just crowded out the time it took to write magnum opus posts all the time – and while I could twitter away various opinions and thoughts, I realized that I should probably just add those to the writing notes instead. Plus, if I wanted to do that, I should just get a Twitter account instead.

I don’t want to do that.

But thanks to those of you who have been sticking around to read this despite the increasing lag time between posts. Since NaNoWriMo is almost finished (which is not to say that I am – with the laptop dying I think I’m officially out of the running to finish this novel by December) I should be back on track with things soon.

Hijinx of the day: In Hong Kong yesterday I bought one of those Nike+iPod sensors, which talk to your iPod while you run and keep track of how far and how long you run. They say that you have to buy special Nike tennis shoes to install them into, but I just took my trusty pocketknife (which I have thanks to Julia) and a hotel sewing kit (which I have thanks to Mom) and voila, my right shoe now has GADGETRY installed into its tongue.

I am immensely and disproportionately proud of myself for this.

Oh, and thank you Mary David for the letter I received today! Proof positive, folks: the address given in the “Contacting Andrew in China” page here on this blog is accurate and it takes about a week until I receive mail (provided that it’s a small, regular sized letter of about an ounce or so). I have some stationery (thanks to Mom) but I’m still on the search for Hello Kitty prints to send to an un/lucky few of you.