Back of the Envelope

This post was originally written on December 5th, although I'll be moving it to December 1st eventually. It is a review of the most significant posts I made during the month of November.

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Back of the Envelope endorses Bush -- To the great surprise of my readers, I explain why I support Bush in this election.

DYT! -- I've decided to make a point of supporting Howard Tayler in his attempts to become a full-time webcartoonist. Howard does Schlock Mercenary, and I'm going to continue my support even when he kills off one of my favorite characters.

Voter Registration -- I got to vote after all.

What are these moral values? -- I attempt to explain what's meant by moral values.

Storyblogging Carnival V -- For the fifth storyblogging carnival, it returns to Back of the Envelope.

The second term: domestic agenda -- What's Bush planning to do domestically in his second term?

Agenda, foreign, in Bush's second term -- And what is he planning to do in foreign policy?

Exiles in Babylon -- We very much need to send Christian missionaries to the strange and hostile land of Blue America.

Reforming the CIA -- Any serious reforms at the CIA will involve a lot of complaints, so I'm just hoping for the best.

Politics as usual, with the usual CNN coverage -- So the Republicans are planning to change the internal rules for their legislative caucuses. How is that any of the Democrats' business?

Decisions this weekend -- I have to decide between two job possibilities.

Storyblogging Carnival VI -- The sixth carnival. I'm still using Roman numerals despite Doc Rampage's attempts to convince me to do otherwise.

Finding evangelicals in Boston -- Yes, there are evangelicals in Boston. Soon I'll be one.

I've accepted a job offer -- Yay! I'll soon be working again.

Evangelicals and law professors -- Not only are there evangelicals in Boston, you can even find them at Harvard.

I took it easy over the Thanksgiving Holiday. Maybe a bit too easy, considering that the blogging was light, the writing lighter, and the exercise non-existent. But boy was there some eating! In any case, it's time to ramp things back up, to see if I can manage that 2,000 words a day in writing, reasonable blog posting, running, while at the same time getting stuff straightened out for the new job, including apartment hunting. Sound like a lot? Keep in mind that right now I don't have a day job and it's not too bad. I did manage to finish the next chapter of Ryan's and Emily's on Sunday, which should give me just enough time to sneak in a revision before I send it to Sheya just before deadline. I encourage everyone else to send Sheya their stories as well.

With Thanksgiving this week, not to mention accepting a job offer (expect an announcement later today), I'm not sure how much time I'll have for blogging this week. Still, I have a few things I want to post. We'll see.

If all has gone as planned, I'm currently in Boston for an interview. I love Powerblogs' scheduling feature, which allows me to schedule this post to go up even when I'm not around to put it up myself. Later today, the next installment of my story will go up. Who knows, I may even have a name for it by then! Well, actually, I know, since that post was written and scheduled on Wednesday as well, but I'm not telling.

Update: One problem with the scheduling feature is that sometimes I goof it up. This post wasn't supposed to go up until tomorrow. At the point it actually went up, I was boarding the plane that would take me to Boston. The promised next chapter of the still nameless story will go up tomorrow, which is what I meant to say.

I'm going to be out-of-town on Thursday and Friday of next week, on an interview in Waltham, MA (in the Boston area). I may be able to prepare a few posts to go up while I'm out of town, but no promises. I could try to get someone to do some guestblogging, but I'm not sure I'm willing to put up with the childish rivalries they encourage.

There'd be more, but I did some volunteer work yesterday, which put me really behind on the writing, and again the blogging gets bumped and even then I'm having trouble with my 2,000 word goal. Still, I may be by in the afternoon, but with my sister and her daughter coming over, I'm not expecting a lot of free time.

Update: In case you're wondering, I finished the 2,000 words along with the next part of the story. It'll need some revisions, but it should be done in time for the storyblogging carnival.

Today's Back of the Envelope was brought to you be the letter A. Tune in tomorrow, where the letter B will be presenting... Aw, you know what, that's too much work. Tomorrow, expect my post titles to return to their usual lack of pattern and meaning.

The Forty-third Christian Carnival is now up at Digitus, Finger, and Inc. I stretched the rules a bit and submitted the Fifth Storyblogging Carnival as my entry. While the Storyblogging Carnival is not explicitly Christian, it did contain a few stories with Christian themes, including Sheya Joie's The Child, Robin Jones's Cast Out, and my own nameless story. I'll try not to abuse other carnivals like this in the future, but I'm always working on getting more publicity for the Storyblogging Carnival.

After resting, I felt well enough yesterday afternoon to go running and to write, so now I'm back blogging. In case you're wondering, both went well, and I've started on the next portion of Ryan's and Emily's adventure. As for blogging, on today's agenda are Arafat, Ashcroft, and... something else that begins with A. I'll think of something.

I'm not feeling too well right now. I'm feverish, and I have a headache and a uncooperative stomach. It may be because I haven't been getting enough sleep. Whether I have or not, I certainly haven't slept well. I'm trying hard to keep up with writing 2,000 words a day and running 2 to 3 miles, but unless I rest up and get better, the running's out and the writing will be hard, so I'm going to have to cut out the blogging to give me time to rest. Sorry, folks. Hopefully I'll see you tomorrow. If I'm feeling better, maybe even this afternoon.

You may be wondering why this is my first post of the day. The primary answer is that I went to see The Incredibles at midnight last night (fun movie, by the way, look for a review this weekend), which meant I slept late (one of the perks of unemployment, soon to end), so I neither prepared any posts last night, nor wrote anything new this morning. Meanwhile, what online time I've had today, I spent working on the Storyblogging carnival, mainly trying to get more people to participate. I try not to be too much of a nuisance, but then, I also try to get as many entries as possible. Anyway, you can expect more tomorrow.

This is just a reminder to get your submissions in to the Storyblogging Carnival. You have about 36 hours left. I look forward to seeing your entries.

My traffic has been running incredibly high recently, for me anyway. It's been between 50-100 for the last month, and just yesterday it beat 100 for no reason that I could tell. A lot of it comes from Captain's Quarters, with his rolling reciprocal blogroll. Now Captain Ed, he's really had an increase in traffic, somewhere in the 40,000 range from 4,000 just a few months ago. Maybe even higher. A lot of his traffic, and mine as well, is due to the election, and I suspect we'll both suffer a downturn afterwards. Unless the litigation drags on, that is. Still, I'm enjoying the traffic while I can.