Thursday, April 5, 2007

Just a Quick One Then

92,000 words


Little bit of lost time in there. The Tiny Dynamo and I went on a mini-break to sunny, beautiful and amazing Kaikoura.


Seriously, when not underwater, it's an awesome place to spend a couple of days. You can go out whale-watching (they come close enough to touch sometimes!) , swim with dolphins and seals, do bush walks full of rare native bird life, and the views are stunning.


Except, of course, when it's rolling gray mist in every direction.


So we had a bad tourist lunch at what used to be a nice place, had good beer at a South Island pub chain and lost a couple of bucks playing the pokies. Video slot machines are okay and all, but I don't see the I-played-them-so much-I-lost-my-home thing.


Instead of staying over, we came back home.


The loudest sound in the house was our teeth gnashing.

I'll blog again for real soon, but today I've got lunch and (shudder) more tennis at Castle Dynamo. At least many, many members of Clan Dynamo will be there. I might stand a chance against some of the more elderly ones.

Who'm I kidding? They're all so small and darty. Great, great uncle Horace Dynamo, with his walker and oxygen mask, would beat me...

2 comments:

RK Sterling said...

LOL, good luck with the tennis. I hope you can leave with at least little dignity intact.

I was just thinking about your word count - you really are going full throttle and it's inspiring. I had set a goal for myself to write at least one paragraph today if nothing else. Does this count? ;)

Charles Gramlich said...

Sounds like you need to learn to vampirize a little of the dynamo family energy. You're a writer. You can do it.